COOKIES
Our Platforms use cookies. A “cookie” is a small computer file that is downloaded to your device that enables a web server to collect information from your web browser. It collects information as to how you navigate our Platforms and helps us to identify you, to make your visit to our Platforms more enjoyable by personalising your visit by customising our web pages for you, and to build up a demographic profile. For more information on cookies and how to manage cookie settings, please see below.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE USE OF COOKIES
What Are Cookies?Cookies are small files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the website to recognise your device the next time you visit. Cookies serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.Cookies contain personal information – i.e. your username if you log into My European Tour. Most cookies do not collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location.
What Cookies Does The Sites Use?We use the following type of cookies on the Site:Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are required for the operation of the Sites. For example, to remember the previous actions so you can navigate back to previous pages.
These cookies are essential in order to move around the Sites and use their features, such as accessing areas of the Sites. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets, cannot be provided
Category 2: Analytical or Performance Cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use the Sites. These cookies collect information about how you use the Sites, for instance which pages you go to most often.
These cookies do not collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the Sites work and understand what interests our users.
Category 3: Functionality Cookies
These are used to recognise users when they return to the Sites. They remember user choices and enable the personalisation of content.
These cookies allow the Sites to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may also be used to provide services such as remembering whether you have already responded to a questionnaire. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Category 4: Targeting Cookies
These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember which websites or Sites you have visited and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
In particular, we use the following individual cookies:
| Cookie
|
Purpose |
| _xcla | This stores a user’s consent to allow cookies |
| _chartbeat2
_chartbeat4 _chartbeat5 _cb_ls |
This is used for real team website traffic reporting/performance monitoring |
| myETFTeam | This records information to a logged-in user’s Fantasy Tour team |
| myET | This records information related to logged-in users and is used to determine whether a user is logged in |
| .ASPXAUTH | This is used to provide session-based authentication for MyET website |
| ETBrowserCheck | This is used to record if a user is using IE6 or lower |
| etLang | This records a user’s choice when he/she is presented with the option to browse the site in a local language |
| _gat_webTrack
_gat_mobilelegTracker _gat_langSiteTracker _gat _ga |
These are Google Analytics (Legacy) cookies |
| _utma
_utmb _utmc _utmt _utmv _utmz |
These are Google Universal Analytics cookies |
| _unam | This is used by the ShareThis social sharing widget |
| _gads | This is used by Double Click for publishers by Google |
How to Block or Disable Cookies
You can block the download of cookies or remove/disable them (including the cookies we use) by altering the privacy settings on your web browser. However, be aware that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site.
More detail on how to disable cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org
Security of Information
We take the security of your personal information seriously. When you submit your credit card details, we use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to guard your information. In addition, we have security procedures in place to protect our customer database from loss and misuse, and only allow access to it when absolutely necessary, and then under strict guidelines as to what use may be made of the personal information contained within it. However, we cannot guarantee that any data transmission over the Internet is completely secure.
This DCT contains links to other digital communication tools. We are only responsible for the privacy practices on this site. We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies and procedures of each and every other digital communication tool that you visit.