Seriousplays (“we” or “us” or “our”) may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies when you visit our website http://seriousplays.org, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”) to help customize the Site and improve your experience.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Cookie Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Cookie Policy. Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Cookie Policy on the Site, and you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or modification. You are encouraged to periodically review this Cookie Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Cookie Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Cookie Policy is posted.
USE OF COOKIES
A “cookie” is a string of information which assigns you a unique identifier that we store on your computer. Your browser then provides that unique identifier to use each time you submit a query to the Site. We use cookies on the Site to, among other things, keep track of services you have used, record registration information, record your user preferences, keep you logged into the Site, facilitate purchase procedures, and track the pages you visit. Cookies help us understand how the Site is being used and improve your user experience.
TYPES OF COOKIES
The following types of cookies may be used when you visit the Site:
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies are placed on your computer by advertisers and ad servers in order to display advertisements that are most likely to be of interest to you. These cookies allow advertisers and ad servers to gather information about your visits to the Site and other websites, alternate the ads sent to a specific computer, and track how often an ad has been viewed and by whom. These cookies are linked to a computer and do not gather any personal information about you.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies monitor how users reached the Site, and how they interact with and move around once on the Site. These cookies let us know what features on the Site are working the best and what features on the Site can be improved.
Security Cookies
Security cookies help identify and prevent security risks. We use these cookies to authenticate users and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies may be place on your computer when you visit the Site by companies that run certain services we offer. These cookies allow the third parties to gather and track certain information about you. These cookies can be manually disabled in your browser.
HOW DOES OUR WEBSITE USE COOKIES
We use different types of cookies for different things, such as:
- Analysing how you use the site.
- Giving you a better, more personalized experience.
- Recognising when you’ve signed in.
- Giving people outside the USA the international version of the website (which has adverts).
Strictly Necessary cookies
These cookies let you use all the different parts of . Without them services that you have asked for cannot be provided.
Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- Signing into the site
- Remembering previous actions such as text entered into a registration form when navigating back to a page in the same session
- Remembering security settings which restrict access to certain content e.g. to help with parental control choices.
Functional cookies
These help us personalise the site to you. For instance, remembering your preferences and settings so if you set a location on the site´s homepage, we’ll remember it using functional cookies and use it to give you local information. They also remember your choice of playlist and favourites and help fulfil requests by you such as commenting on a blog.
Some examples of these cookies are:
- Flash cookies, which are stored on your hard drive, not your browser. These are useful for things like pausing a programme on iPlayer and then later picking up where you left off.
- Remembering if you visited the website before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you.
- Remembering settings applied to the website such as colour, font size and layout.
Performance cookies
These help us understand how people are using the site, so we can make it better. And they let us try out different ideas.
We sometimes get other companies to analyse how people are using our site. These companies may set their own performance cookies. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- To collect information about which web pages visitors go to most often so we can improve the online experience.
- Error management to make sure that the website is working properly.
- Testing designs to help improve the look and feel of the website.
HOW WILL THIS SITE USE THE INFORMATION IT COLLECTS ABOUT ME?
This site will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
• To provide our services, activities or online content, to provide you with information about them and to deal with your requests and enquiries;
• To provide you with the most user-friendly online navigation experience;
• For “service administration purposes”, which means that we may contact you for reasons related to the service, activity or online content you have signed up for (e.g. to provide you with password reminders, to notify you that a particular service, activity or online content has been suspended for maintenance, to notify you of updates to our Privacy and Cookies Policy or Terms of Use, to let you know if your account has become dormant and to ask if you would like to use it again before we close it);
• We may also show you relevant advertising on third party sites, as set out in section;
• To contact you about a submission you have made, including any content you provide.
• To use IP addresses and device identifiers to identify the location of users, to block disruptive use, to establish the number of visits from different countries, and to determine where you are accessing the services from.
• For analysis and research purposes so that we may improve the services offered;
• We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes;
Where the site proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first.
HOW GOOGLE USES DATA WHEN YOU USE OUR SITE
Many websites use Google technologies to improve their content and keep it free. When you visit a website that uses our advertising products (like AdSense), social products (like the +1 button), or analytics tools (Google Analytics), your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google. This includes, for example, the web address of the page that you’re visiting and your IP address. We may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there.
Similarly, apps that partner with Google can send us information such as the name of the app and an identifier that helps us to determine which ads we’ve served to other apps on your device. If you are signed in to your Google Account, and depending on your Account settings, we may add that information to your Account, and treat it as personal information.
HOW GOOGLE USES THE INFORMATION SENT BY YOUR BROWSER
When you visit websites or use apps that use Google technologies, we may use the information we receive from those websites and apps to, for example:
- Make ads more effective
- Provide reports of ads activity to advertisers and websites hosting the ads, and to ensure payment to those website publishers
- Help website and app owners using Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with their sites or apps
- Improve your Google+ experience
- Detect and defend against fraud and other security risks to protect users and partners
- Meet our legal duties
- Improve our products
For more information visit: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/
CONTROL OF COOKIES
Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you can remove or reject cookies in your browser´s settings. Please be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site.
For more information on how to control cookies, check your browser or device´s settings for how you can control or reject cookies, or visit the following links:
In addition, you may opt-out of some third-party cookies through the Network Advertising Initiative´s Opt-Out Tool.
OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
In addition to cookies, we may use web beacons, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. A “web beacon” or “pixel tag” is tiny object or image embedded in a web page or email. They are used to track the number of users who have visited particular pages and viewed emails, and acquire other statistical data. They collect only a limited set of data, such as a cookie number, time and date of page or email view, and a description of the page or email on which they reside. Web beacons and pixel tags cannot be declined. However, you can limit their use by controlling the cookies that interact with them.
PRIVACY POLICY
For more information about how we use information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies, please refer to our Privacy Policy http://seriousplays.org/privacy-policy/. This Cookie Policy is part of and is incorporated into our Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.