What are ‘Cookies’?
Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or application. Your web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome) then sends these cookies back to the website on each subsequent visit so that they can recognise you and remember things like personalised details or user preferences.
Cookies are very useful and do lots of different jobs, helping to make your experience on our website as enjoyable and useful as possible. They remember your preferences and generally improve your experience.
There are two different types of cookie:
Session Cookies: These only last for your online session and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies: These stay on your computer or device after the browser has been closed and last for the period of time specified in the cookie. These persistent cookies are activated each time you visit the site where the cookie was generated.
Which cookies do we use?
When you use our website or mobile site, the following categories of cookies may be set on your device:
‘Strictly Necessary’ Cookies
These cookies are essential because they help you to move around our websites and use features such as the Subscriptions page. Without these cookies, the website simply would not work properly. These cookies do not gather information about you.
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow websites to remember choices you make (such as your username and language preferences). They allow us to provide you with enhanced and more personal features. The information these cookies collect will not allow us to identify you personally.
Analytics Cookies
In order to keep our website and mobile site relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use web analytics services such as Google Analytics to help us understand how people use them. For example, we can see which parts of our websites are most popular and make sure we are constantly updating and improving our content. The information we collect is anonymous and only used for statistical purposes.
Embedded Content and Third Party Cookies
To help us deliver the best possible content, we sometimes use third-party tools to embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. As a result, when you visit a page containing such content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them. You should check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.
Across our websites and mobile site, you will also see embedded ‘share’ buttons. These enable you to easily share content with friends through a number of popular social networks. When you click on one of these buttons, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. Again, ESPLORA does not control these cookies and cannot access them.
How does ESPLORA use cookies?
This website uses cookies. Whenever you use our website and mobile site, information may be collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies.
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
We may send a cookie which may be stored on by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognise your computer when you visit our website and to personalise our website for you in some ways.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookie by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.) This may, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.
We don’t sell the information collected by cookies, nor do we disclose the information to third parties, except where required by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).
By using our website and the mobile site you agree to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy.
Version 2018.02 | Last Update: 25th October 2018
