Policy Document

Cookie Notice

Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site, allows us to improve our Site and provide you with tailored content and advertising.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

You can find more information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

PERFORMANCE / ANALYTICS:

These cookies collect anonymous information about how you use our Site, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages, and how you arrived at our Site. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our Site and never to identify you. 

FUNCTIONALITY:

These cookies remember choices you make, for example the country you visit our Site from, your language and any changes you have made to text size or other parts of web pages that you can customise, in order to improve your experience of our Site and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.

TARGETING OR ADVERTISING:

These cookies collect information about your browsing habits and inferred interests in order to make advertising more relevant to you.

SOCIAL MEDIA

These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our Site with social media organisations such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the privacy policies of these organisations for how their cookies work.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

We may use cookies:

(i)  to collect anonymised data on users behaviour on the site. We may also capture what site a user has come from and what site they go to and also some demographic data (e.g. the user’s location) and we may use that data to analyse user behaviour across multiple sites;

(ii)  to categorise pools of users (on an anonymised basis) based on demographic and/or behavioural data and use this to target our advertising to cookie-ed users on third party websites., and (2) use that data to allow targeted third party advertising to categorised cookie-ed users either in respect of advertising placement Communion has bought/placed and targeted to users on behalf of third parties  or in respect of advertising bought/placed by third parties and targeted to cookie pools Communion has "sold" to these third parties.

Some of our Sites may use Google AdSense to publish advertisements.  When you view or click on an advert a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other websites.  You may opt-out of the use of this cookie by visiting Google’s Advertising and Privacy page.

Most internet browsers are automatically set up to accept cookies. However, if you want to refuse or delete any cookies (or similar technologies), please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies. Please note you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of our Site, including certain personalised features, if you delete or disable cookies.

For more information on managing cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org, or visit www.youronlinechoices.eu which has further information about behavioural advertising and online privacy.