Cookie policy

Lolly sites and apps may use cookies and similar tools across our websites to improve their performance and enhance your user experience. This policy explains how we do that.

 

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text 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, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

There are many functions cookies serve. 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.

Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click to “remember me” when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won’t 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 sort of cookies does this Site and App use?

Generally, our cookies perform up to four different functions:

Essential cookies

Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website. For example, some cookies allow us to identify subscribers and ensure they can access the subscription only pages. If a subscriber opts to disable these cookies, the user will not be able to access all of the content that a subscription entitles them to.

Performance cookies

We utilise other cookies to analyse how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the website.

Functionality cookies

We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, cookies save you the trouble of typing in your username every time you access the site, and recall your customisation preferences, such as which regional edition of the website you want to see when you log in. We also use functionality cookies to provide you with enhanced services such as allowing you to watch a video online or comment on a blog.

Behaviourally targeted advertising cookies

This Site uses cookies to serve you with offers and advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. However, we do not tell our business members and advertisers who you are.

 

Does anyone else use cookies on this Site?

Advertisers sometimes use their own cookies to provide you with targeted advertising. We believe that it is useful to our users to see advertisements that are more relevant to their interests. 

If you are based in the European Union and would like to learn more about how advertisers use these types of cookies or to choose not to receive them, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu. 

If you are based in the United States and would like to learn more, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices/

We also use or allow third parties to serve cookies that fall into the four categories above. For example, like many companies, we use analytics and metrics programs to help us monitor our website traffic. We may also use third party cookies to help us with market research, revenue tracking, improving site functionality and monitoring compliance with our terms and conditions and copyright policy.

 

Can a website user block cookies?

As we’ve explained above, cookies help you to get the most out of our websites. B accessing our site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. However, if you do wish to disable our cookies then please follow the instructions on our “How to disable behaviourally targeted advertising cookies” below. Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly.

 

Do we track whether users open our emails?

Our emails may contain a single, campaign-unique “web beacon pixel” to tell us whether our emails are opened and verify any clicks through to links or advertisements within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more interesting to users, to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them and to inform our advertisers in aggregate how many users have clicked on their advertisements. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.

 

How to disable behaviourally targeted advertising cookies

If you are concerned about behaviourally targeted advertising cookies (which serve you advertisements based on your use of our sites), users based in the European Union can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu and users based in the US can visit www.aboutads.info/choices/ to opt out of these third party cookies.

The above websites are not our sites and we are not responsible for their content.

How to enable and disable cookies using your browser

Google Chrome

• Click on the ‘wrench’ icon on the browser (usually found top-right corner) to open the tools menu
• From the tools menu select ‘Options’
• Click the ‘Under the Hood’ tab from the menu on the left.
• In the ‘Privacy’ section, select the ‘Content settings’ button
• To enable cookies: select ‘Allow local data to be set’ option
• To disable cookies: select ‘Block all cookies’ option

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page from Google: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Microsoft Internet Explorer 

• Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select ‘Internet Options’
• In the options window navigate to the ‘Privacy’ tab
• To enable cookies: Set the slider to ‘Medium’ or below
• To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Explorer. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to the following page from Microsoft: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

All other browsers

Please look for a “help” function in the browser or contact the browser provider.

More Information

More detail on how businesses use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. 

If you have any queries regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact or Data Protection Officer by e-mail at [email protected] 

This document was last updated on 3 May 2022.