Cookie Policy
Life
Simplified By Jos’s website may gather information about your general Internet
use by using cookies in order to help you personalise your online experience.
Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. A cookie
is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies
cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are
uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain
that issued the cookie to you.
‘Essential’
cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our
website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and
other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have
consented to us doing so. You consent to us placing non-essential cookies on
your computer or device by continuing to use our website with your browser
settings set to accept cookies.
Cookies
may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent
cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set
expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session
cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the
web browser is closed.
Cookies
do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but
personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information
stored in and obtained from cookies.
We use
cookies for the following purposes:
- authentication – we use cookies to identify
you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website; - status – we use cookies to help us to
determine if you are logged into our website; - personalisation – we use cookies to store
information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you; - security – we use cookies as an element
of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing
fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services
generally - analysis – we use cookies to help us to
analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and - cookie consent – we use cookies to store your
preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.
Some of
our service providers also use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your
computer when you visit our website. These are the third party service
providers that store cookies when you visit our website:
- Google
Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers
information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered
relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
You have the ability 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. If you do not know how to do
this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser
settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
For
further information on how we handle personal information please refer to our
Privacy Policy, below.