Introduction
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit the Retail News website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as language, etc.) for a certain period of time.
That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites. For further information on how we use these statistics, please see our privacy policy.
Managing Cookie Preferences
You can manage/delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org.
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all.
Our cookies:
Our website uses the following cookies:
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
PERFORMANCE COOKIES
GOOGLE DATA ANALYTICS:
These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
THIRD PARTY TRACKING:
Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data.
We implement these through Google Analytics. Please see below for more information.
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Retail News, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns.
Do Not Track
“Do Not Track” is a technology that enables visitors to opt-out from being tracked by websites for whatever purpose, including the use of analytics services, advertising networks and social platforms.
To enable the “do not track” option in your browser follow the respective link below:
Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature
Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-do-not-track-in-internet-explorer-11-ad61fa73-d533-ce96-3f64-2aa3a332e792
Microsoft Edge https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-bb8174ba-9d73-dcf2-9b4a-c582b4e640dd
Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=3421433
Safari https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri40732/mac#ibrw88300566
Opera https://help.opera.com/en/latest/#notrack
If your preferred browser is not in the above list of browsers, visit the vendor's website for more information.
For further information please see our privacy policy (link to policy).