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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.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
Domain | Name of cookie | Type of cookie | Expiry period | Reason for use of cookie | Description | |
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www.myfamilyclub.co.uk | ASP.NET_SessionId | Session cookie | Your visit | Used to store session data on your journey through the website. | ||
myfamilyclub.co.uk | __utma | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Analytics | 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. | |
myfamilyclub.co.uk | __utmb | Persistent cookie | 30 minutes | Analytics | This cookie is set by our analytics provider, Google Analytics. A timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site. | |
myfamilyclub.co.uk | __utmc | Session cookie | Analytics | 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. | ||
myfamilyclub.co.uk | __utmz | Persistent cookie | 6 months | Analytics | 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. | |
ad.yieldmanager.com | bh | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Advertising | Ad.yieldmanager is a tracking cookie that is saved on your computer as you browse the Internet. Ad.yieldmanager, like other tracking cookies, collects information about your browsing habits and the pages you visit and submits them back to the tracking cookie host site. For more information http://www.ehow.com/how_5104180_remove-adyieldmanager.html | |
ad.yieldmanager.com | uid | Persistent cookie | 30 days | Advertising | Ad.yieldmanager is a tracking cookie that is saved on your computer as you browse the Internet. Ad.yieldmanager, like other tracking cookies, collects information about your browsing habits and the pages you visit and submits them back to the tracking cookie host site. For more information http://www.ehow.com/how_5104180_remove-adyieldmanager.html | |
addthis.com | di | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Social networking | Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend. |www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy/| | |
addthis.com | uid | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Social networking | 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. AddThis is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies. More information about addthis cookie go to http://www.addthis.com/privacy | |
adform.net | TPC | Persistent cookie | 29 days, 23 hours | Advertising | AdForm Tracking Cookies - For more information visit - http://www.adform.com/site/privacy-policy/ | |
adform.net | uid | Persistent cookie | 60 days | Advertising | AdForm Tracking Cookies - For more information visit - http://www.adform.com/site/privacy-policy/ | |
adformdsp.net | uid | Persistent cookie | 60 days | Advertising | ||
adnxs.com | anj | Persistent cookie | 90 days | Advertising | Used by www.adnxs.com for visitors coming from advertisements placed with adnxs.com or Media IQ. | |
adnxs.com | icu | Persistent cookie | 90 days | Advertising | Used by www.adnxs.com for visitors coming from advertisements placed with adnxs.com or Media IQ. | |
adnxs.com | sess | Persistent cookie | 1 day | Advertising | Used by www.adnxs.com for visitors coming from advertisements placed with adnxs.com or Media IQ. | |
adnxs.com | uuid2 | Persistent cookie | 90 days | Advertising | Used by www.adnxs.com for visitors coming from advertisements placed with adnxs.com or Media IQ. | |
apmebf.com | S | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Advertising | We use affiliate networks to promote products on our behalf across selected websites and, using these third party cookies, we can track sales generated via that network and make payment accordingly. More information can be found at http://www.cj.com/legal/privacy_web_user.html for more info. | |
atdmt.com | AA002 | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Advertising | Tracking Cookies Atlas Solutions - Adforms. For more information visit - http://www.dform.com/site/privacy-policy/ | |
atdmt.com | MUID | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Advertising | Tracking Cookies Atlas Solutions - Adforms. For more information visit - http://www.dform.com/site/privacy-policy/ | |
b3-uk.mookie1.com | NSC_fo1efm_qppm_iuuq | Session cookie | Advertising | Advertising Cookie used to provide relevant adverts | ||
b3.mookie1.com | NSC_o4efm_qppm_iuuq | Session cookie | Advertising | Advertising Cookie used to provide relevant adverts | ||
bluekai.com | bk | Persistent cookie | 5 months, 3 weeks | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
bluekai.com | bkc | Persistent cookie | 5 months, 3 weeks | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
bluekai.com | bkdc | Persistent cookie | 30 days | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
bluekai.com | bklc | Persistent cookie | 2 days | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
bluekai.com | bko | Persistent cookie | 5 months, 3 weeks | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
bluekai.com | bkp1 | Persistent cookie | 5 months, 3 weeks | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
bluekai.com | bkst | Persistent cookie | 5 months, 3 weeks | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
bluekai.com | bku | Persistent cookie | 5 months, 3 weeks | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
bluekai.com | bkw5 | Persistent cookie | 5 months, 3 weeks | User preferences | Bluekai uses non-personally identifiable cookies and pixel tags to collect and store Preference Data. | |
chango.com | _i_an2 | Persistent cookie | 1 week | Advertising | Ad network / Retargeter Technology provider enabling advertisers to target an advertisement to a user who has visited their website or interacted with a different advertisement in the past. Aggregate data is shared with 3rd parties. | |
chango.com | _t | Persistent cookie | 10 years | Advertising | Ad network / Retargeter Technology provider enabling advertisers to target an advertisement to a user who has visited their website or interacted with a different advertisement in the past. Aggregate data is shared with 3rd parties. | |
crwdcntrl.net | OAID | Persistent cookie | 8 months, 3 weeks | Advertising | Used by www.crwdcntrl.net to track visitors coming from advertisements placed with crwdcntrl.net. | |
crwdcntrl.net | aud | Persistent cookie | 8 months, 3 weeks | Advertising | Used by www.crwdcntrl.net to track visitors coming from advertisements placed with crwdcntrl.net. | |
crwdcntrl.net | cc | Session cookie | Advertising | Used by www.crwdcntrl.net to track visitors coming from advertisements placed with crwdcntrl.net. | ||
crwdcntrl.net | dc | Session cookie | Advertising | Used by www.crwdcntrl.net to track visitors coming from advertisements placed with crwdcntrl.net. | ||
demdex.net | demdex | Persistent cookie | 10 years | Advertising | These are advertising cookies to help us optimise our advertising. | |
doubleclick.net | id | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Advertising | Unique cookie code to determine which advertisements have been shown on your device. Allows effectiveness-management of advertisements. | |
doubleclick.net | test_cookie | Persistent cookie | 15 minutes | Advertising | This cookie is added to test if the user's browser supports cookies. | |
dpm.demdex.net | dpm | Persistent cookie | 10 years | Advertising | These are advertising cookies to help us optimise our advertising. | |
facebook.com | datr | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Social networking | This cookie is related to Facebook functionality. If you’ve previously received a cookie from Facebook because you either have an account or have visited facebook.com, your browser sends Facebook information about this cookie when you visit a site with the “Like” button or another social plugin. Facebook uses this cookie information to help show you a personalised experience on their site and to help maintain and improve their service. | |
facebook.com | locale | Persistent cookie | 1 week | Social networking | A Facebook cookie that identifies user’s language and country. | |
facebook.com | lsd | Session cookie | Social networking | The lsd cookie contains a random value that is set when a Facebook user logs out in order to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. | ||
facebook.com | reg_fb_gate | Session cookie | Social networking | The reg_fb_gate cookie contains the first Facebook page that the web browser visited. Cookies used by Facebook to track registration effectiveness by recording how the user originally came to Facebook when they created their account. | ||
facebook.com | reg_fb_ref | Session cookie | Social networking | The reg_fb_ref cookie contains the last Facebook page that the web browser visited. These cookies are used by Facebook to track registration effectiveness by recording how the user originally came to Facebook when they created their account. | ||
flashtalking.com | flashtalkingad1 | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Advertising | 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. | |
invitemedia.com | exchange_uid | Session cookie | Advertising | Invite Media (owned by Google) provide an advertising system which displays adverts on various websites. These cookies help us measure the effectiveness of these adverts. | ||
invitemedia.com | partnerUID | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Advertising | Invite Media (owned by Google) provide an advertising system which displays adverts on various websites. These cookies help us measure the effectiveness of these adverts. | |
invitemedia.com | uid | Session cookie | Advertising | Invite Media (owned by Google) provide an advertising system which displays adverts on various websites. These cookies help us measure the effectiveness of these adverts. | ||
lucidmedia.com | 2 | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Advertising | Behaviour targeting/advertising designed to keep track of how many times a user visits a website and how long they stay, browser type, IP address and other web surfing activities which are sent back to the cookie’s host site. | |
mathtag.com | mt_mop | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Advertising | Behaviour targeting/advertising designed to keep track of how many times a user visits a website and how long they stay, browser type, IP address and other web surfing activities which are sent back to the cookie’s host site. | |
mathtag.com | ts | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Advertising | Behaviour targeting/advertising designed to keep track of how many times a user visits a website and how long they stay, browser type, IP address and other web surfing activities which are sent back to the cookie’s host site. | |
mathtag.com | uuid | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Advertising | Behaviour targeting/advertising designed to keep track of how many times a user visits a website and how long they stay, browser type, IP address and other web surfing activities which are sent back to the cookie’s host site. | |
miniclip.com | __utma | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Analytics | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip a 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. | |
miniclip.com | __utmb | Persistent cookie | 30 minutes | Analytics | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip . A Google Analytics timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site. | |
miniclip.com | __utmc | Session cookie | Analytics | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip. A Google Analytics 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. | ||
miniclip.com | __utmz | Persistent cookie | 6 months | Analytics | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip. 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. | |
pixel.rubiconproject.com | rpx | Persistent cookie | 1 month | Advertising | Rubicon is an online advertising technology company, who use cookies (from which you cannot be identified) to show you ads which may be of interest to you. | |
rubiconproject.com | au | Persistent cookie | 8 years | Advertising | Rubicon is an online advertising technology company, who use cookies (from which you cannot be identified) to show you ads which may be of interest to you. | |
rubiconproject.com | cd | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Advertising | Rubicon is an online advertising technology company, who use cookies (from which you cannot be identified) to show you ads which may be of interest to you. | |
rubiconproject.com | put_1986 | Persistent cookie | 1 month | Advertising | Rubicon is an online advertising technology company, who use cookies (from which you cannot be identified) to show you ads which may be of interest to you. | |
rubiconproject.com | put_2236 | Persistent cookie | 1 month | Advertising | Rubicon is an online advertising technology company, who use cookies (from which you cannot be identified) to show you ads which may be of interest to you. | |
rubiconproject.com | rpb | Persistent cookie | 1 month | Advertising | Rubicon is an online advertising technology company, who use cookies (from which you cannot be identified) to show you ads which may be of interest to you. | |
sharethis.com | __stid | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Social networking | This cookie is set by the third-party Share This service, which makes it easy to share content. | |
sharethis.com | __uset | Persistent cookie | 4 hours | Social networking | This cookie is set by the third-party Share This service, which makes it easy to share content. | |
tap.rubiconproject.com | dq | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Advertising | Rubicon is an online advertising technology company, who use cookies (from which you cannot be identified) to show you ads which may be of interest to you. | |
www.miniclip.com | PHPSESSID | Persistent cookie | 1 year | Navigation | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip to store session data on your journey through the website. | |
www.miniclip.com | __utma | Persistent cookie | 2 years | Analytics | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip and 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. | |
www.miniclip.com | __utmb | Persistent cookie | 30 minutes | Analytics | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip. a Google Analytics timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site. | |
www.miniclip.com | __utmc | Session cookie | Analytics | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip. A Google Analytics 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. | ||
www.miniclip.com | __utmz | Persistent cookie | 6 months | Analytics | This cookie is placed by our free games provider Miniclip. 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. | |
youtube.com | PREF | Session cookie | Media | These cookies are used by YouTube to deliver the embedded video player and track usage of their service. | ||
youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Persistent cookie | 240 days | Media | Remembers if YouTube should show the new-style or old-style video interface to you. | |
youtube.com | use_hitbox | Session cookie | Media | Temporary cookie while session is open, tracking on site activity and preferences. |
Data provided by Cookie Reports Ltd
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 04 Jun 2012.