LICHFIELD GARRICK THEATRE & STUDIO
COOKIE POLICY
Lichfield Garrick uses essential cookies in order to make your experience of using our website as smooth as possible, and we also use cookies for Google Analytics, AddThis (social sharing tool), Twitter and Facebook.
This is to monitor how people are using our sites to see if there are any ways we can improve them. Our website is hosted by 21st Century Design.
We receive and store certain details whenever you interact with us. We log your Internet Protocol (IP) address so we can receive and send information from and to you online.
Our website, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help customise your experience. 'Cookies' are small text files that are stored by the browser on your computer or mobile phone. Websites are able to read and write these files, allowing them store things such as personalisation details or user preferences.
We use cookies to enable online transactions (first party cookies). We may also track receipt, opening, click-through, and purchase and unsubscribe information for the emails we send.
Cookies provide a "memory" for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately. Each web domain can only access cookies stored by that specific web domain, meaning that only Lichfield Garrick servers can access the cookies set by the lichfieldgarrick.com domains.
Our cookies help us:
•Make our website work as you'd expect.
•Save you having to login every time you visit the site.
•Remember your settings during and between visits.
•Improve the speed/security of the site.
•Allow you to share pages with social networks like Twitter.
•Personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster.
•Continuously improve our website for you.
•Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do).
We do not use cookies to:
•Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission).
•Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission).
•Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
What Cookie we use
We specifically use the following cookies on our website:
Add this - _atuvc, cw_id, loc, mus, na_id, na_tc, ouid, ssc, ssh, sshs, uid, uvc
This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded in the website to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.
Google -_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmc, _utmz
These cookies are set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Twitter - ads_prefs, auth_token, int, eu_cn, guest_id, kdt, netpu, personalization_id, remember_checked_on, syndication_guest_id, tfw_exp, twid, twitter_ads_id
These cookies are placed on the website’s home page to allow the widget to collect data for Twitter on the widget’s performance.
Facebook - c_user, datr, dpr, fr, pl, sb, xs
These cookies are placed on the website’s home page to allow the widget to collect data for Facebook on the widget’s performance.
Lightweight Widget - _ga, _gid
These cookies are Google Analytics which send information back to Instagram on the performance of the Instagram widget found in the footer of the website.
EuCookie
This cookie alerts the user to the fact that cookies are used on the site at the point of the first session. It resets after the browser disconnect from the website. It is part of the EU Cookie Law, a piece of privacy legislation that requires websites to get consent from visitors to store or retrieve any information on a computer, smartphone or tablet.
Granting us permission to use cookies
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
Turning Cookies Off
Cookies can be cleared and turned off from your internet browser at any time, by going into your browser settings or by clicking Ctrl+Shift+Del.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.
April 2018