Cookie Policy

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to your computer to be sent back to the web site later. These anonymous markers enable the website to remember who you are and compile helpful information from your past visits.

image-zine.com website serves up two types of cookie, each with a different purpose. In each case, the cookies are used for your convenience and pose no privacy threat.

Workstation cookies

These persistent cookies contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come (e.g. www.image-zine.co.uk), the lifetime of the cookie and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. There is no personal information. Together, this information enables image-zine.com to recognise consecutive visits to our web site from the same computer. In this way image-zine.com is able to piece together a sequence of visits.

This information enables us to analyse use of our site in order to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics. These statistics allow us to understand how customers use our site and so help us to improve the structure of our website.

Use of web beacons

Some web pages contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information which including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to help us understand how users use our website, and to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.

Disabling/enabling cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. Please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ to find out more about cookies and how to get rid of cookies. It is necessary to disable them in the browser settings and may be necessary to delete any existing ones on disk. If your browser does not allow you to accept or decline cookies, visit http://www.browserchoice.eu/ to find out more about the different browsers and download the latest version. For a guide to online behavioral advertising, visits http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ for more information.

If you would like to opt-out of our Google Analytics tracking you should install the Google Analytics Opt out Add-on. To find out more and to download the browser add-on you should visit the Google Chrome webstore at https://chrome.google.com/. For further information on Google Analytics visit the Google Analytics Overview page.

To opt out of the display advertising we use visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/ads/.