Cookies

We want to make it as easy as possible for you to understand and control your online privacy. So here is a clear explanation of what cookies are, how we use them, and how you can manage your preferences when you visit our website.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a tiny text file placed on your computer, tablet or mobile phone by websites that you visit. Cookies do lots of useful jobs. They help make websites work smoothly, provide information about how people browse, and make sure any adverts you see are as relevant as possible.

Like most websites, www.allyourownwords.co.uk uses cookies. These cookies are safe and secure and don’t store your personal information.

Cookies can be classified by duration and by source:

Duration

Session cookies – a cookie that is stored temporarily and is destroyed when you close the link.

Persistent tracker cookies – a cookie that enables a website to remember you on subsequent visits, speeding up or improving your experience of services or functions offered.

Source

Cookies can be classified as first-party or third-party if they are either issued by the website that you are visiting or by a site other than the one you are currently surfing.

The cookies used by All Your Own Words fall into the following categories:

Essential (classified as ‘strictly necessary’) cookies: these enable you to move around the website and use its features. A session cookie is only stored on your computer’s hard drive for the duration of your visit (known as an ‘active session’). It is removed as soon as the active session has ended.
Performance cookies: these are used for web analytics to track site usage, page visits and monitor visitor trends over time. The data collected is limited to managing the performance and design of the site. These cookies are third-party cookies but the information obtained is for the exclusive use of All Your Own Words.
Functionality cookies: these allow a website to remember choices you make (such as language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

Once you have given us your agreement to the use of cookies, we shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember you for your next visit. If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies may affect all users of that computer. If you wish to withdraw your agreement at any time, you should follow the ‘Opt-out for cookies’ section below.

The specific cookies we use are:

_ga which is created by Google Analytics and is used to identify unique users and it expires after 2 years
_gat which is created by Google Analytics and is used to throttle the request rate and it expires after 1 minute
_gid which helps to count how many people visit your website by tracking if they’ve visited before

What we do NOT use cookies for

We never show adverts from third parties on our website.
We don’t store any personal information in our cookies that can be used to identify you directly, like your name, email, postcode, IP address, or financial information (credit card, bank account). Any data we do collect is anonymous.
We will never sell your data to anyone else for any reason. To read more about how we protect the information we collect about you, please read our Privacy Notice.

Opt-out for cookies

There are a number of options available to opt-out for cookies. You can set your browser to either block all cookies, to only allow ‘trusted’ sites to set them, or to accept cookies only from the websites that you are currently on. If you choose to block all cookies, you may experience problems accessing certain areas of this website.

You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org. This the site will give you guidance on how to control and delete unwanted cookies you have already accepted.