Cookie Policy for Shout Mag - 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.

DomainName of cookieType of cookieExpiry periodPurposeCompany

We use Google Adsense. We have opted our sites out of their behavioural targeting as we would prefer the adverts featured on our page being relevant to the page you are looking at rather than something you searched for on Google previously. You can learn more and opt out here.

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

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

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

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

We use Google Adsense to provide targeted advertising and increase the effectiveness of our advertising. You can learn more and opt out here.

We use adviva to provide targeted advertising and increase the effectiveness of our advertising. You can learn more and opt out here.

We use DoubleClick to provide targeted advertising and increase the effectiveness of our advertising. This unique cookie is used to determine which advertisements have been shown on your device. You can learn more and opt out here.

We use DoubleClick to provide targeted advertising and increase the effectiveness of our advertising. This cookie is added to test if the user's browser supports cookies. You can learn more and opt out here.

These cookies are used by YouTube to deliver the embedded video player and track usage of their service.

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.