WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer hard drive by a web page server. You will normally see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer.

Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

TYPES OF COOKIES

Session cookies: Last only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: Last after you have closed your browser and allow a website to remember your actions and preferences. Sometimes persistent cookies are used by websites to provide targeted advertising based upon the browsing history of the device.

First and third party cookies: Whether a cookie is a first or third party cookie depends on which website the cookie comes from. First party cookies are those set by or on behalf of the website visited. All other cookies are third party cookies. We use both first party and third party cookies

Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. These cookies don’t gather information about you for the purposes of marketing.

Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a web site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor although they may collect the IP address of the device used to access the site. All information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how a website works, the user experience and to optimise our advertising. By using our websites, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device, however you can block these cookies using your browser settings.

Functionality cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username). The information these cookies collect is anonymised (i.e. it does not contain your name, address etc.) and they do not track your browsing activity across another website.

Targeting cookies: These cookies collect several pieces of information about your browsing habits. They are usually placed by advertising networks. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as media publishers. These organisations do this in order to provide you with targeted adverts more relevant to you and your interests. This type of advertising is called online behavioural advertising and place an icon in the top right hand corner of an advert. This icon when clicked, will take you through to the website Your Online Choices where there is more help and guidance for you to Opt-out of this type of advertising. You can block these cookies using your browser settings.

HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use different types of cookies for different things, such as:

• Analysing how users use our website
• Giving you a better, more personalised experience
• Recognising when you have signed in

HOW CAN I CHOOSE WHAT COOKIES I WANT ACTIVATED?

You have the option to choose what cookies you want to access. On the cookie banner please click on the Cookie Settings button and you can choose whether or not to activate cookies or not. However, be aware that this may affect the performance of the website.

HOW DO I CONTROL MY COOKIES?

You have the ability control, accept and decline cookies, if you choose to decline cookies; you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our site and any preferences will be lost if you delete cookies.

All recent versions of popular browsers give users a level of control over cookies. Users can set their browsers to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies. You should do this through the web browser settings for each web browser you use, and, on each device, you use to access the Internet.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.allaboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wider variety of browsers.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .

To opt-out of website analytics and on-site personalization services provide by Adobe visit http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html

How Mustcard can change the cookie policy

We regularly review the cookies we use, to continually improve our services to you. Any such changes shall appear here and become effective immediately, you should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

We are planning to enhance our cookie tool to allow our customers to easily change their cookie settings after their initial choice

CONTACT US

Any information regarding this cookie policy are welcomed and should either be emailed to tillie@themustcard.com or addressed to The Mustcard Limited, 48 Longdene Road, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 2PQ.