In this Cookies Policy, any use of the words “you”, “yours” or similar expressions shall mean any user of this website whatsoever. Terms such as “we”, “us”, “our” or similar expressions shall mean the Unmuddled website.
A cookie is a small file, which is stored on your computer and is designed to hold small amounts of data about you and your interaction with a website. Upon visiting our website for the first time, you will be asked for permission to apply our cookies to your device. Once you agree, the file is added to your device and the cookie helps us analyse website traffic or lets us know when you visit a particular page on the website.
Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes, by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. If you choose to not accept cookies, only those critical to the operation of the website will be applied to your device. You will still be able to use our website but your experience and ability to utilise our website functions may be diminished.How we use Cookies
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is systematically removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
In addition to our own cookies, we also use third party cookies for the purpose of analytical reporting, re-marketing and to build a profile of our website visitors. Digital re-marketing allows us to reach people who have previously visited our website. Our digital adverts may be shown to people when they visit other websites within display networks, on social platforms or when you conduct searches on search engines (such as Google). Re-marketing is a feature that helps match interested people with the right message. When you enter our website for the first time after 1st August 2021 by continuing to use our website you will receive cookies, unless you have set your computer’s browser to reject cookies, we can place cookies on your device and use that data in accordance with this policy.
If you wish to change your cookie preferences set on our website you can do so at any time via your browsers settings.
Cookies on our website are used for a variety of different purposes, but generally speaking their use breaks down into the following categories:
a) Strictly Necessary Cookies: these are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
b) Analytical/Performance Cookies: these allow us to recognise and count the number of users of our website and see how such users navigate through our website. This helps to improve how our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.
c) Functionality Cookies: these improve the functional performance of our website and make it easier for you to use. For example, such cookies are used to remember that you have previously visited the website and asked to remain logged in to it.
d) Targeting Cookies: these cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising on third party platforms and websites.
You can manage cookies by activating the setting on your Internet browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
Please note, if you do turn cookies off, this will limit the service that we are able to provide to you and may affect your user experience.
The only personal information about the visitor stored in a cookie is the email address they provide. This information is scrambled (not readable in plain text).
The cookies are stored in the visitor’s browser so once they are deleted in the browser they cannot be retrieved.
Our policies and procedures are under continual review. We may, from time to time, update our cookies policy. Any such changes will be posted on this page.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Comments and requests regarding this Cookie Policy should be addressed to dpo@unmuddled.com