Cookies Policy

Cookies are small text files stored in your device when you access most websites on the internet.

www.qype.co.uk (this Site) uses cookies in order to make this Site easier to use, to support the provision of relevant information and functionality to you, as well as to provide us with information about how this Site is used so that we can make sure it is as up to date, relevant and error free as we can.

By using this Site you accept our use of cookies. You can choose to manage the cookies we use on this Site through your browser settings at any time. For more information about how to do this, and about cookies in general, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Further information about the types of cookies that are used on this Site is set out below.

Please note that preventing cookies is likely to impact the functionality or performance of this Site, or prevent you from using certain services provided through it. If you choose to do so, we cannot guarantee access to the services provided through this Site or be sure how this Site will perform during your visit. Doing so will also affect our ability to update this Site to cater for user preferences and improve its performance.

The types of cookies we currently use on this Site are set out below. The cookie categories are based on the category definitions contained in the International Chamber of Commerce UK Cookie guide.

Cookie Category Details
Strictly necessary

Strictly necessary cookies are essential to enable you to move around this Site and use its features and/or services. These cookies allow this Site to provide services at the request of users.

This Site use strictly necessary cookies to:

  • Identify you as being logged in to this Site
  • Make sure you connect to the right service on our Site when we make any changes to the way the Site works
Performance

Performance cookies allow us to update this Site to cater for Site user preferences and improve performance. They collect information about how this Site is used, e.g. which pages users visit most often and where error messages are delivered. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies individuals. All information is anonymous.

This Site use performance cookies to:

  • Provide statistics on how this Site is used (including selections that you have made and cities' information that you have viewed, during your use of this Site)
  • Gather non-user specific technical data regarding usage of this Site and provide statistics on how our Site is used
  • Ensure users are shown specific tooltips only once
  • Track Site user activity in respect of affiliate links (including recording purchases or registrations performed through links from affiliated sites) and report such activity to our affiliates (for payment purposes and to allow them to improve their websites)
  • Provide feedback to partners that one of our visitors also visited their website. This can include details of any products bought. This lets our partners improve their website, but we don't allow our partners to reuse this information for further advertising
  • Help us improve the Site by measuring any errors that occur
  • Test different designs of our Site
Functional

Functional cookies allow this Site to remember choices you make, e.g. your user name, log in details and language preferences, and any customisations you make to Site pages during your visit. They are necessary to provide features and services specific to individual users.

This Site use functional cookies to:

  • Identify you as having consented to use of cookies by this Site
  • Show you when you're logged in to the Site
  • Publish relevant content based on the type of content you have agreed to view
  • Where selected by a user, provide enhanced log-in functionality (keeping users logged in despite navigating away from the Site)
  • Ensure users are only actively asked once to register or log in to the Site
  • Share information with partners to provide a service on our Site. The information shared is only to be used to provide the service, product or function and not for any other purpose
Targeting or advertising cookies

These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests, to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Third party cookies are used on this Site for the purposes of tailoring the advertising content on our Site during your visit. More information about these third party cookies and how to prevent these cookies is set out in the Further Information Section below.

This information is linked to site functionality provided by other websites, and may be shared with other organisations in accordance with our privacy policy.

This Site uses targeting/advertising cookies to:

  • Link to social networks like Facebook, who may subsequently use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites
  • Provide advertising agencies with information on your visit so that they can present you with adverts that you may be interested in

Further Information

Further general information about cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.

For further information about Google Analytics please see http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview.html

To prevent being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Third Party Advertising Cookies

For Criteo's privacy policy governing its advertising practices and for information on how to prevent being tracked by Criteo, please see http://www.criteo.com/us/privacy-policy

For Exelate's privacy policy, please see http://exelate.com/consumer-opt-out/services-privacy-policy

To prevent tracking through Exelate, please visit http://exelate.com/consumer-opt-out

If you would like to find out more about advertising networks and affiliate programmes and how cookies are used for these purposes, please visit www.youronlinechoices.co.uk. This is an information portal which is run by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade association for digital advertising, and will provide you will all the information you need to know about online behavioural advertising and the choices available to you. Both Criteo and Exelate are subscribed to the IAB and you can prevent tracking by these and many other organisations via this link: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices