PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY
At www.hintsandthings.com, the
privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy
document outlines the types of personal information is received and
collected by www.hintsandthings.com and how it is used.
Hints and Things do not collect or use for
commercial purposes, personal information such as names or addresses when
you visit the site. If, however, you contact us by email, we will retain and
use your email address solely to reply to your contact and for no other
purpose. If you choose to provide other personal information such as your
name and address, that information will only be used to fulfil your request
for information.
We do, however, use third-party advertising companies to serve ads
when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not
including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your
visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information
about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to not
having this information used by these companies,
click here.
Log Files
Like many other Web sites,
www.hintsandthings.com makes use of log files.
The information inside the
log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser,
Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and
number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track users
movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses,
and other such information are not linked to any information that is
personally identifiable.
Hints and Things uses
Matrixstats as an analysis tool, however this system does not use
"cookies" and instead collates information taken from the server log for our
domain.
Cookies and Web Beacons
www.hintsandthings.com
does not use
1st party cookies.
We do, however, publish Google
Adsense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by
Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track
your behaviour across the web using cookies. You can view, delete or add
interest categories associated with your browser using Google's Ads Preference
Manager, available at:
www.google.com/ads/preferences/.
You can opt-out of the Adsense
partner network cookie at:
www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. However, this opt-out mechanism uses a
cookie, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be
maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular
browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in available at:
www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to
reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can
refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and
selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies
will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor,
uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
Google's use of the DART cookie
enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and
other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use
of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network privacy policy.
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Google, as a third party
vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on
www.hintsandthings.com.
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Google's use of the DART
cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to
www.hintsandthings.com and other sites on the Internet.
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Users may opt out of the use
of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy
policy at the following URL -
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Some of our advertising
partners or service suppliers may use cookies and web beacons on our site.
Our partners include:-
Google Adsense
Book Depository - see
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/help/topic/HelpId/20/Our-privacy-policy#helpContent
Findmeplants.co.uk
These third-party ad servers or
ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on
www.hintsandthings.com sent directly to your browsers. They automatically
receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as
cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad
networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to
personalize the advertising content that you see.
www.hintsandthings.com has no
access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party
advertisers.
You should consult the respective
privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed
information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to
opt-out of certain practices. www.hintsandthings.com's privacy policy does
not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other
advertisers or web sites.
If you wish to disable cookies,
you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed
information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found
at the browsers' respective websites or
http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=1
If you require any more
information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free
to contact us by email at june@hintsandthings.com.
June Jackson
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Hints and Things
All Rights Reserved.
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