Unless defined below capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms of Use.
To make the websites work properly many use cookies, which are small information files that are sent to your computer, mobile or other device when you visit the website and which will recognize your device on future visits. These types of files do a number of different jobs such as remembering your preferences and chosen items, assisting you to improve your site experience as well as trying to ensure that the adverts or offers you see online are more relevant to you.
This Website in particular may use cookies and tracking technology depending on the features offered. Cookies and tracking technology are useful for gathering information about your use of the Websites, information about your computer such as the computers IP address and browser type, demographic data, and information such as if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, in which case the cookie can provide information concerning the URL and information about the linking website.
Personal information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology. However, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied to such information. If you are a registered user, this may include your name and e-mail address for verification purposes. Aggregate cookie and tracking information may be shared with third parties.
You may choose to set your web browser to not accept cookies, see below “How do you turn cookies off”. However, if you do not accept cookies, you will not be able to use all the services provided, sign in on any pages, post comments or make purchases, and you do not help us learn how to improve our Website, products, offers and marketing strategy.
Further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer can for example be found on www.aboutcookies.org. Or you can go to the help menu on your internet browser.
The cookies used on this Website are the following:
Session cookies which are erased when you close the browser,
First-party cookies which are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain, and
Third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page’s domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain.
Session cookies are used to track and store items in the shopping cart to ensure a user is recognized when moving from page to page within the site and that any information entered is remembered. They are used only for this purpose and only accessible by this website.
Third-party cookies Web analytics software uses cookies to tell if a user has visited the site before, determine how many unique users we have and how often they visit the site.
These cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, they are used for aggregated statistics only. This allows us, for example, to tell which areas of the site are the most popular and better optimise our content for the interests of our users.
To allow users to share content with friends through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter we embed components provided by these third parties or build our own components which use their APIs. These third-party companies have their own privacy policies (Twitter user privacy policy, Facebook user privacy policy) and also policies for publishers which we will comply with (Twitter API policy, Facebook developer policy).
M.J.Gibbs may disclose aggregate, anonymised statistics about the number of visitors to this Website or number of purchases made. M.J.Gibbs uses an independent measurement and research company to gather data regarding the visitors to this Website on our behalf using cookies and code which is embedded in the site. Both the cookies and the embedded code provide statistical information about visits to pages on the Website, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the Website, data on visitors’ screen settings and other general information. M.J.Gibbs uses and stores this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help improve the services to its users. Further information regarding the way in which this information is obtained and used can be obtained by contacting us at m.j.gibbs@bigpond.com.
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser.