1.1 If you’ve been surfing online in the last few years, you’ve almost certainly clicked on ‘Accept Cookies’ when visiting a website.
1.2 But what does that really mean?
1.3 Our Cookie Policy will explain how we use cookies on our website and how they help us keep it secure and functioning properly.
What are cookies?
2.1 Every time you visit a website on your laptop, tablet, or mobile phone and accept cookies, small files will be stored on your device. These are known as cookies, and they collect data that’s shared with us while you’re using our website.
2.2 Different types of cookies act differently. Session cookies, for example, are deleted as soon as you close your browser, but persistent cookies will remain on your device until they expire, or you manually clear your cache.
2.3 At Young Car Driver, we use both session and persistent cookies.
First and third-party cookies
3.1 First-party cookies are those that we put on our website.
3.2 Outside organisations add third-party cookies. This includes things like the ‘share’ buttons on our blog that link to social network sites. You’ll need to adjust your privacy choices on their site to let them know how they can use your data.
3.3 We also use cookies from companies we work with such as social media platforms, search engines, and our business partners.
3.4 Don’t worry; we’ll never sell your data to organisations outside our company.
3.5 You can find out how we use data – and who we share it with – in our Privacy Policy.
How we use cookies
4.1 We use cookies to help you get around our website and perform certain actions. We’ll go into more detail on this below.
4.2 Our Necessary cookies are essential to making the website work, but we also use functional, analytics, and performance cookies alongside third parties to help us analyse how you use the website, store your preferences, and provide relevant content. These cookies will only be stored on your device with your consent.
4.3 You can choose to disable all or just some of these cookies, but keep in mind that disabling them might impact your browsing experience.
Types of cookies
Necessary – Always Active
5.1 These cookies are needed to make the website work. They provide our secure log-in and adjust your consent preferences, but don’t store any personally identifiable data.
Functional
5.2 Functional cookies let you do things on our website like share our content on social media.
Analytics
5.3 We use analytics cookies to understand how you interact with our website. These give us important information to help us improve our content 3 including the number of visitors to each page, where our visitors come from, and their bounce rate.
Performance
5.4 Performance cookies also help us understand how our website is working on different devices so we can deliver a better user experience.
Advertisement
5.5 Young Car Driver doesn’t currently use advertisement cookies, but these are typically used to provide you with customised ads based on the pages you’ve visited in the past and to analyse how effective those ads were.
Cookies in emails
6.1 We may also use cookies and similar technologies in our emails to help us understand whether you’ve opened the email and how you’ve interacted with it.
6.2 If you don’t want to accept cookies in emails, you can set your browser to restrict or reject them and delete the email.
How can I control my cookie preferences?
7.1 You can restrict or block our cookies in our browser settings. The ‘help’ menu in your browser should tell you how to do this.
7.2 If you do choose to block all cookies, you won’t receive any personalised marketing messages.
7.3 We may amend our Cookie Policy at any time by posting a copy of the new terms on our website.
7.4 If you’d like more information about cookies and how to restrict them, you can visit allaboutcookies.org