Cookies

This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help customise your experience of our website.

This page contains information on what ‘cookies’ are, the cookies used by pauladamson.org, how to switch cookies off in your browser and some useful links for further reading. If it does not provide the information you require, or you have any further questions about how we use cookies, please contact us.

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 pauladamson.org use cookies?

A visit to a page on pauladamson.org may generate the following types of cookie:

Site performance cookies
This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on pauladamson.org, so you don’t have to reset them each time you visit. Examples include:

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, whether your browser has 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.

It is important to remember that these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only.

How do I turn cookies off?

It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website.

All modern internet 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 settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari

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:

Microsoft Cookies guide
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