Cookies on thevictorianemporium.com

This page contains information on what 'cookies' are, the cookies used by thevictorianemporium.com, how to switch cookies off in your browser, how to specifically disable third party advertising cookies, and some useful links for further reading on the subject. If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of cookies on thevictorianemporium.com and guardiannews.com, please email [email protected].

What are 'cookies'?

'Cookies' are small text files that are stored by the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a "memory" for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately.

How does thevictorianemporium.com use cookies?

A visit to a page on thevictorianemporium.com may generate the following types of cookie:

• Site performance cookies
• Anonymous analytics cookies
• Geotargetting cookies
• Registration cookies
• Advertising cookies
• Shopping cart cookies

Your cookie preferences

Site performance cookies

This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on thevictorianemporium.com, so you don't have to re-set them each time you visit.

Anonymous analytics cookies:

Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie.

These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before.

Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don't, we generate new ones.

This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.

Unless you are signed in to the Victorian Emporium, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as username and email address.

Geotargetting cookies

These cookies are used by software which tries to work out what country you are in from information supplied by your browser when it requests a web page. This cookie is completely anonymous, and is only used to help target content - such as whether you see our UK our US home page - and advertising.

Registration cookies

When you register with the Victorian Emporium, we generate cookies that signal whether you are signed in or not.

Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username.

If you have not selected 'keep me signed in,' your cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer.

While you are signed into either of the sites, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen on the Victorian Emporium as an individual,

How do I manage my cookie settings?

It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. For example, we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies, so you would not be able to post comments.

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. In order to understand these setttings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.

• How to Enable and Disable Cookies on Every Web Browser

If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by via teh Cookie Consent Banner on this site.

Useful links

If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:

All About Cookies

For further legal information about privacy issues, you may find these links useful:

Data Protection Act 1998
The Information Commissioner's Office

If you would like to contact us about cookies please email us at [email protected].