Last updated on 08 October 2021
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the Website owner are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the Website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other Websites.
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available
through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure
areas, making payment and site navigation. They may also include security
services to prevent malicious use of the website.
Analytical/Performance cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to
help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective our
marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our Websites for you.
Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited
and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website
and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may
also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Third Party cookies
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve
advertising through our Websites. These companies may use information about
your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant
advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in.
They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness
of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web
beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites
in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of
potential interest to you. The information collected through this process
does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other
details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.
These include, but are not limited to Cloudflare, Amazon (AWS), Google, Facebook, Quantcast, Microsoft, Yahoo, Verizon, Adflare, Traffic Junky & TUNE.
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our Websites, performed a specific action such as a registration of purchase online or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Some cookies collect information about browsing and purchasing behaviour when you access this website via the same computer or device. This includes information about pages viewed, products purchased and your journey around a website. We do not use cookies to collect or record information on your name, address or other contact details. We may use cookies to monitor your browsing and purchasing behaviour.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the browser closes. These are known as session cookies. The login tracking cookie has a five year expiration and our own tracking cookie for partner referrals are valid for 180 days.
If you choose to reject or disable cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
If you have any questions or comments about this Cookie Policy, including requests to access or modify the use of your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer by emailing hello@thelibrary.im.
For other general queries, The Library can be contacted via the contact section on the Website or by writing to our registered address.