About this cookie policy.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences.
For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our
Privacy Policy. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Your consent applies to the following domains: shropshirelive.com
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You can access these options at any time when using the site at the footer of the page and clicking the link labelled: Cookies Policy.
The cookie control popup will reappear and you can adjust your cookie consent options.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide a better user experience, and understand how the website performs, and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data. The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
By visiting shropshirelive.com the following types of cookie may be created and stored on your computer:
- Anonymous analytics cookies
- Social sharing cookies
- Ad serving and management cookies
- Third-party advertising cookies
What types of cookies do we use?
The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories.
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The below list details the cookies used in our website.
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How can I control the cookie preferences ?
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences. Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the ” Cookie Policy” link located on the footer of your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
Shropshire Live and cookies
Most web browsers are initially set up to accept all cookies, but you may be able to configure your browser to refuse all cookies or to warn you when a cookie is being set. Read more about this below in Cookie control on your device.
Websites you visit should ask you to make a decision about accepting, rejecting, or choosing which cookies to use, this is required under GDPR regulation. This is why you will see a popup option when you visit Shropshire Live, yes we know it can be annoying, but it also important that you understand what cookies are and what consent you as a user want to give.
Some Shropshire Live features and services may not work properly if cookies are disabled and may affect your user experience, if, for example, the advertising cookies are declined -we are unable to serve advertising to you, which is how revenue is generated to enable Shropshire Live to operate.
Any changes to this policy will be posted here. Shropshire Live LLP reserves the right to vary this Cookie Policy from time to time and such changes shall become effective as soon as they are posted. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such changes.
Here are some of the third-party services we use that may use cookies:
Google Analytics
Shropshire Live uses Google Analytics on its website www.shropshirelive.com, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how users use the Site. The information generated by Google’s cookies about your use of the Site (including your IP address) is anonymous and will be sent to Google and held on Google’s servers in the USA in accordance with Google’s privacy policy (available at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/privacy/).
* Please note that Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Ad serving cookies
We Use Google Adsense – Google Ad Manager to serve our adverts.
The cookie does not collect personal information of any sort, just three ad related parameters to help the ad server:
- It shows what adverts each user has viewed.
- Shows you where the ads were located that the user viewed.
- Limits the number of times a user sees a particular ad.
Third party adverts
Some adverts you see on Shropshire Live are generated by third parties.
Some of these third parties use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular advert or to track how many people have seen it more than once.
The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, we have no access to read or write these cookies.
Third-party Social Media Cookies
Social sharing, video and other services we offer are run by other companies. These companies may drop cookies on your computer when you use them on our site or if you are already logged in to them.
Find out more about specific services that we may use and their use of cookies:
Facebook’s data use policy; https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other
Twitter’s privacy policy; https://twitter.com/privacy
YouTube video player cookie policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/faq/#toc-cookies (Google’s standard terms).
Cookies on websites we link to
Please note that our business partners or other websites that may be accessible via the site may also use cookies, over which we have no control. You should check the privacy and cookies policies posted on the relevant third-party websites for further information on such cookies (including details of how to reject or delete such cookies).
Cookie control on your device
These links explain how you can control cookies via your browser – remember that if you turn off cookies in your browser then these settings apply to all websites:
Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 (this page links to further information for different versions of IE the mobile version is at https://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/web/changing-privacy-and-other-browser-settings.aspx).
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647
Safari: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/5.0/en/9277.html (or https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677 for mobile versions)
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies
Android: https://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=169022
Opera: https://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
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