This policy sets out how we (“Pembroke Digital Limited” trading as “O’Brien Media”) use cookies within the services we provide.
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
We do not use cookies to:
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with our use of cookies. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video or embedded tweet or Facebook post.
Disabling third party cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties and may cause some content not to display on our website.
So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Turning Cookies Off
Visitors may wish to restrict the use of cookies, or completely prevent them from being set. Most browsers provide for ways to control cookie behaviour such as the length of time they are stored – either through built-in functionality or by utilising third party plugins.
To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org. For more details on advertising cookies, and how to manage them, visit youronlinechoices.eu (EU based), or aboutads.info (US based).
It’s important to note that restricting or disabling the use of cookies can limit the functionality of sites, or prevent them from working correctly at all.
It may be that you 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.
Both websites and HTML e-mails may also contain other tracking technologies such as ‘web beacons’. These are typically small transparent images that provide us with statistics, for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they are not stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, the web beacons may still load, but their functionality will be restricted.
The following cookies may be set by our website.
Cookie | Description |
SESS | This cookie stores the session ID of an authenticated user to provide them a better user experience. This cookie expires 28 days from the session date. |
e_x | This cookie facilitates A/B testing for the website. Users will receive a cookie with a number where the x is that identifies which experience they have received so that they receive that experience consistently. |
unam _utma _utmb _utmc _utmd _utmt _utmz | These are Google Analytics cookies. We use Google Analytics to help us collect anonymous statistics on visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, how long a user spends on the site, and the pages they visited. This helps us to understand how people use the site and to make improvements to our site. Read more about their collection and use here. For an overview of privacy at Google, visit here. To opt out, visit here. This cookie expires 28 days from the session date. |
piwik_ignore | This cookie will be set if you choose to opt out of paticipating in website analytics provided by O’Brien Media. |
_pk_ref, _pk_cvar, _pk_id, _pk_ses | These are O’Brien Media Analytics cookies. We use O’Brien Media Analytics to help us collect anonymous statistics on visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, how long a user spends on the site, and the pages they visited. This helps us to understand how people use the site and to make improvements to our site. This cookie expires 28 days from the session date. |
APISID | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
HSID | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
LOGIN_INFO | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
PREF | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
SAPISID | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
SID | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
SSID | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
YSC | Youtube viewing and tracking cookies from embedded videos. |
Our data protection coordinator, Jenny O’Brien, can be reached via email at [email protected], by phone on 01793 239239, or by post at O’Brien Media, GDPR Compliance, Unit 9, Pembroke Centre, Cheney Manor Ind. Estate, Swindon, SN2 2PQ.
Our ICO registration number is ZB692196, under the name of Pembroke Digital Limited