Cookies Policy
Cookies are small text files which are transferred to your computer or mobile when you visit a website or app.
A website uses them to:
- Remember information about you, so you don’t have to give it again.
- Keeps you signed in, even on different devices
- Helps to understand how people are using our services, so we can make them better
- To deliver advertising to websites
- Helps personalize website to you by remembering your preferences and settings. And your progress, so you can pause and pick up where you left off watching a programme, even on a different device
- To find out if our emails have been read and if you find them useful
You can change your cookie settings at any time.
There are different types of cookies:
First-party cookies
These cookies are set by the website you’re visiting. And only that website can read them.
Third-party cookies
These cookies are set by someone other than the owner of the website you’re visiting. Some web pages may also contain content from other sites like YouTube, X, Facebook or Flickr, which may set their own cookies. Also, if you share a link to a our webpage, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie on your browser. We have no control over third-party cookies – you can turn them off, but not through us.
Session cookies
These cookies only last as long as your online session, and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser (like Internet Explorer or Safari).
Persistent cookies
These cookies stay on your computer or device after your browser has been closed and last for a time specified in the cookie. We use persistent cookies when we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session. For example, we use them to remember your preferences for the next time you visit.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies let you use all the different parts of the website. Without them, services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided. Also, as a public service, we collect data from you to help us understand how people are using the website, so we can make it better. We sometimes get other companies to analyse how people are using the our website.
Some examples of how a website uses these cookies are:
- When you sign in to the website
- Remembering security settings that affect access to certain content, for example, any parental controls
- Collecting information on which web pages visitors go to most often so we can improve our online services
Functional cookies
These help us personalise the website to you by remembering your preferences and settings. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- Remembering your choice of playlists and favourite content and help you do things like commenting on a blog
- Remembering where you paused a programme and then later picking up where you left off
- Remembering if you visited the website before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you
- Remembering settings on the website like colour, font size and layout
Performance cookies
These help us make sure that the website is working properly and fix any errors. And they let us try out different ideas.
Advertising cookies
Some websites use advertising networks to show you specially targeted adverts when you visit. These networks may also be able to track your browsing across different sites.
Other tracking technologies
Some sites use things like web beacons, clear GIFs, page tags and web bugs to understand how people are using them and to target advertising to them.
They usually take the form of a small, transparent image that is embedded in a web page or email. They work with cookies and capture data like your IP address, when you viewed the page or email, what device you were using and where you were.
