Cookies Policy

Introduction

Leighton Media Group may place, view, and/or use “cookies”, web server logs, web beacons, pixels or other electronic technologies to collect statistical and other information about you and your use of this Website. Cookies to help us customise your experience. Find out more about cookies and how you can control them.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store information on web browsers (e.g. Google Chrome or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a “memory” for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately. In this policy, we refer to this type of technology as “cookies.”

Cookies Used on This Website

Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Anonymous Analytics Cookies – every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.

Analytical/performance cookies – These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies – These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies – These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Other third-party cookies – on some pages on this site third parties may also set their own anonymous cookies, for the purposes of tracking the success of their application or customising the application for you. Because of how cookies work, we are unable to access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by Leighton Media Group.

For example, when you share an article using a social media sharing button, the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

To assist us with the uses described in this Cookies Policy, information collected about you and your use of this Website or other websites may be aggregated, analysed or combined with personal or other information about you from other online or offline sources. If you prefer that we not combine non-personal information that has been collected, through cookies, about your use of this Website or other websites with personal or other information about you, then please delete and disable cookies for each browser, on each computer you use to surf the Web.

How Do We Use Cookies?

When you access our Website, view or interact with our content or otherwise communicate with us digitally, we use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to:

• understand the behavior of users to our Website;
• track which parts of our Website people have visited;
• understand the profile of the users of our Website;
• make our Website as convenient and personal as possibe;
• provide services that require the use of cookies;
• measure how often our content is viewed;
• determine which email messages were opened;
• whether you clicked on any links
• interacted with the content and
• optimise your email experience;
• analyse your information including your location, age, time zone, IP address, URL visited, and products and/or services requested.

Disabling Cookies

If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to disable cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Likewise, most mobile devices allow you to disable the ability for geo-location information to be collected from your mobile device. The help function on most browsers and mobile devices contains instructions on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies, disable cookies entirely, or disable the collection of geo-location data. You need to set each browser, on each device you use to surf the Web. Thus, if you use multiple browsers (e.g., Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.), you should repeat this procedure with each one.

Similarly, if you connect to the Web from multiple devices (e.g., work and home), you need to set each browser on each device. Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be able to utilise additional cookie management tools.

Implications of Disabling Cookies

If you disable certain cookies or refuse to accept a request to place a cookie, it is possible that some parts of this Website, such as the polls, surveys, tools, services, and certain areas of this Website for which you are required to log in, will not function properly. The advertising you receive when you visit this Website may not be advertisements tailored to your interests.