What are cookies

Cookies are pieces of information which are sent from a website to your hard drive while you a viewing a site. These may be used by companies to provide a more personalised experience, for statistical purposes, or for advertisements. The use of cookies is standard practice across the internet and is undertaken by several websites.

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Cookies could be either ‘persistent’ or ‘session’ cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and remain valid until its set expiration date and can be deleted by the user prior to expiry. A session cookie expires at the end of the user session on a website once the browser has been closed.

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As there are links to external sites, users are advised to be aware of the possible use of cookies. Where applicable and in accordance with legislation, these sites should use a cookie control system which allows the user to give explicit permission or deny the use of cookies.

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What Aunt Vickie Animal Nanny uses cookies for

Aunt Vickie Animal Nanny uses cookies to be able to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of user behaviour.

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Any use of cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this website or by the owners of third-party services used by this website, unless stated otherwise, serves to identify users and remember their preferences, for the sole purpose of providing the service required by the user.

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Failure to provide certain personal data may make it impossible for this website to provide its services. Users are responsible for any personal data of third parties obtained, published or shared through this website and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the data to Aunt Vickie Animal Nanny. For operation and maintenance purposes, this website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this website (system logs) or use for this purpose other personal data (such as IP address).

 

 

Website analytics and Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

Aunt Vickie Animal Nanny uses Google Analytics to analyse website data. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises cookies and personal data to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities and to share them with other Google services.

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Google may use the data collected to personalise the ads of its own advertising network. For more information about Google Analytics visit the Google Analytics website.

 

 

Cookie disabling

In order to disable the use of cookies when you visit a website, changes within your internet browser will need to be made. The below links provide instructions on how you are able to do this.