Cookie Policy for Aberdeen Journals Limited - YourBreaks

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
	yourbreaks.ajl.co.uk	ASP.NET_SessionId	Session cookie		Your visit	To be completed
Stores session data during a website visit.
	yourbreaks.ajl.co.uk	__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
	yourbreaks.ajl.co.uk	__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
	yourbreaks.ajl.co.uk	__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
	yourbreaks.ajl.co.uk	__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
	yourbreaks.ajl.co.uk	ns_cookietest	Session cookie		Analytics	To be completed
Confirms that the browser in use is able to accept cookies, on behalf of comScore Analytics platform.
	yourbreaks.ajl.co.uk	ns_session	Session cookie		Analytics	To be completed
Identifies user sessions on a website, on behalf of the comScore Analytics platform.
	atdmt.com	AA002	Persistent cookie	2 years	Advertising	To be completed
Tracks the route taken by visitors to arrive at the site, used to better target advertising. You can learn more here.
	atdmt.com	MUID	Persistent cookie	2 years	Advertising	To be completed
Tracks the route taken by visitors to arrive at the site, used to better target advertising. You can learn more here.
	doubleclick.net	_drt_	Persistent cookie	12 hours	Advertising	To be completed
We use DoubleClick to provide targeted advertising and increase the effectiveness of our advertising. You can learn more and opt out here.
	doubleclick.net	id	Persistent cookie	2 years	Advertising	To be completed
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.
	doubleclick.net	test_cookie	Persistent cookie	15 minutes	Advertising	To be completed
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.
	flashtalking.com	flashtalkingad1	Persistent cookie	2 years	Under review	To be completed
Flashtalking uses cookies to track the conversion rates for particular advertising campaigns, to help serve advertisements which are of particular relevance to you and to measure how many of our users see the advertisements served. You can learn more and opt out here.
	sensic.net	aev1501	Persistent cookie	6 months	Advertising	To be completed
This is a Google AdSense Third party vendor. As such they set cookies to deliver advertisements that are relevant to your interests or behaviour online such as visiting a particular advertisers website and products. You can learn more and opt out here.
	sensic.net	aev1540	Persistent cookie	6 months	Advertising	To be completed
This is a Google AdSense Third party vendor. As such they set cookies to deliver advertisements that are relevant to your interests or behaviour online such as visiting a particular advertisers website and products. You can learn more and opt out here.
	serving-sys.com	A3	Persistent cookie	2 months, 3 weeks	Advertising	To be completed
mediamind uses cookies to track the conversion rates for particular advertising campaigns, to help serve advertisements which are of particular relevance to you and to measure how many of our users see the advertisements served. You can learn more and opt out here.
	serving-sys.com	B4	Persistent cookie	2 months, 3 weeks	Advertising	To be completed
mediamind uses cookies to track the conversion rates for particular advertising campaigns, to help serve advertisements which are of particular relevance to you and to measure how many of our users see the advertisements served. You can learn more and opt out here.
	serving-sys.com	C4	Persistent cookie	2 months, 3 weeks	Under review	To be completed
mediamind uses cookies to track the conversion rates for particular advertising campaigns, to help serve advertisements which are of particular relevance to you and to measure how many of our users see the advertisements served. You can learn more and opt out here.
	serving-sys.com	u2	Persistent cookie	2 months, 3 weeks	Advertising	To be completed
mediamind uses cookies to track the conversion rates for particular advertising campaigns, to help serve advertisements which are of particular relevance to you and to measure how many of our users see the advertisements served. You can learn more and opt out here.
	tynt.com	uid	Persistent cookie	1 year	Analytics	To be completed
Tynt is a software solution which allows us to track content which users are cutting and pasting from our website to use elsewhere. The cookies used allow Access Legal to view reports highlighting what content has been copied from the website. You can learn more and opt out here.
	uk.sitestat.com	c1	Persistent cookie	5 years	Analytics	To be completed
We use Comscore (sitestat) to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to our websites and volume of usage. More information is available here.
	uk.sitestat.com	s1	Persistent cookie	5 years	Analytics	To be completed
We use Comscore (sitestat) to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to our websites and volume of usage. More information is available 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 08 Jun 2012.