Cookie Policy Like many websites, we use "cookies”. Cookies are

Cookie Policy
Like many websites, we use "cookies”. Cookies are small text files that websites automatically save to the
cookie file of the browser on your computer when you enter the website. We do not use cookies that
access any information stored on your hard drive or damage or otherwise endanger your computer. We
use cookies to identify your computer when you use our online services and to track and assist your
navigation around our online services.
Examples of the information that may be analysed using cookies are user-name, email address and
password, the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, browser type
and version, operating system and platform you use to connect, areas of our online services that you
viewed or searched for, the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) from or through which you entered and
exited our online services and the date and time of such activity.
Cookies are used for many different purposes on our sites, examples of which are set out below:
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Limiting ad campaigns – we use a cookie to make sure that we do not over-expose to our users
to a particular online advertising campaign.
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Geo-Management Advisory Service – we use a cookie to determine when a user last viewed a
message advising them that the website they are accessing is directed at a particular geography
or country.
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Limiting voting – on some sites, we use a cookie to check the number of daily votes for a given
user.
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Playlist functionality – our music sites use an additional cookie to ensure the correct playlist
functionality on the site.
You can use the "Help" section of the tool bar on most browsers to change the settings on your computer,
for example, to notify you when you receive a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, some of the
features of our online services may not work or may be more difficult to access if you refuse all cookies. If
you want to find out more about cookies go to www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Online Behavioural Advertising
We use third party advertising companies to serve advertisements on our online services including a
company known as DoubleClick and Google’s AdSense program. The ads you receive are influenced by
various factors, including your browsing history prior to visiting this website. These companies may use
information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your use of our
online services in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to
you. In the course of serving advertisements, our third party serving network may place or recognise a
unique "cookie" on your browser. This is a "persistent" cookie, which means that it is stored on your
computer and will remain there until it expires or you remove it. The ad serving networks may also make
use of other technologies, such as "web beacons", in order to improve the relevance of the ads you
receive. If you would like more information about DoubleClick’s practices and to know your choices about
not having this information used by this company please click here:
www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy. If you would like more information about Google’s AdSense
program please click here: www.google.com/adsense.
CONSENT
BY LOGGING IN TO USE ANY OF OUR SERVICES OR BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS WEBSITE,
YOU CONSENT TO THE SETTING OF COOKIES AS DESCRIBED ABOVE (EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT
YOU HAVE MODIFIED YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS TO REJECT COOKIES).