Cookie Policy for DC Thomson

About our Cookies - supporting your informed choice

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Controlling Cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You may limit site operation or functions if you limit cookies.

How do we use cookies on our website?

We make use of cookies to help manage the site and your visitor experience. These cookies may be used to collect analytics of 'non-personal' visitor activity outlines, manage user logins and personal preferences, provide relevant or timely information to you or offer focused advertisements.

Information about the cookies used

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Domain	Name of cookie	Type of cookie	Expiry period	Purpose	Company	Description
www.thebroons.com	.ASPXANONYMOUS	Persistent cookie	70 days	Your visit	To be completed	Used by the .NET Framework to provide anonymous identification for application authorisation.
www.thebroons.com	ASP.NET_SessionId	Session cookie		Your visit	To be completed	This cookie is essential for our site to function. It is used to make sure that your experience, whilst on our site, is as seamless as possible as you move from page to page. The cookie is installed automatically when a user connects to the site and expires when the browser window closes.
www.thebroons.com	__atuvc	Persistent cookie	2 years	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.
thebroons.com	__utma	Persistent cookie	2 years	Analytics	To be completed	This cookie is set by our analytics provider, Google Analytics. This keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. You can opt out of these by visitng Google's opt out page
thebroons.com	__utmb	Persistent cookie	30 minutes	Analytics	To be completed	This cookie is set by our analytics provider, Google Analytics. A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site. You can opt out of these by visitng Google's opt out page
thebroons.com	__utmc	Session cookie		Analytics	To be completed	This cookie is set by our analytics provider, Google Analytics. A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site - having waited 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn't, it expires. You can opt out of these by visitng Google's opt out page
thebroons.com	__utmz	Persistent cookie	6 months	Analytics	To be completed	This cookie is set by our analytics provider, Google Analytics. This keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from. You can opt out of these by visitng Google's opt out page
addthis.com	di	Persistent cookie	2 years	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.
addthis.com	dt	Persistent cookie	30 days	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.
addthis.com	loc	Persistent cookie	90 days	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.
addthis.com	psc	Persistent cookie	2 years	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.
addthis.com	uid	Persistent cookie	2 years	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.
addthis.com	uit	Persistent cookie	1 day	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.
addthis.com	uvc	Persistent cookie	2 years	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.
addthis.com	xtc	Persistent cookie	2 years	Social networking	To be completed	AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. You can learn more and opt out here.

Type of Cookies

Persistent cookies - these cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies - these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Independently audited

We use the services of Cookie Reports Limited to audit our site for cookies. They searched our site on 30 May 2012 and found the cookies which have been listed in the table above.

This policy was last updated 05 Jun 2012.