The Wainwright Society :: Cookie Policy Guidelines

Cookies In Use on This Site

Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, although we keep their use to an absolute minimum. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

Make our website work as you'd expect
Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising primarily on our Society Forum page)
Keep track of visitor numbers and statistics etc

We do not use cookies to:

Collect any personally identifiable information
Collect any sensitive information
Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Pay sales commissions

Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this.

More about our Cookies

Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website forum/members only page work including:

Determining if you are logged in or not
Allowing you to add comments to our site

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more effort into developing our services for you.

Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. These are primarily used on the Society Forum page.

You can learn more about online advertising at https://www.youronlinechoices.com You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices but it is worth remembering that there is no such thing as a free lunch and adverts ultimately help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.

Banner Adverts
We do not fund our site by showing adverts as you browse our site. The only place on the website that this will happen is on our Society Forum which is free for us and you to use because it has adverts. These adverts are managed by a company specialising in providing adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these companies place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visits so they can personalise the adverts to you, ensure that you don't see the same adverts too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on which adverts are working.

Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. Please note that unless you are a Society Forum user you will not notice a difference (hopefully) whilst viewing the rest of the site if cookies are turned off or on.

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing https://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh.