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Cookie Policy

Our use of cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

·         recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested

·         measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast

·         analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with our services so we can make them better

You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the article, Internet Browser cookies

Learn how to remove cookies set on your device

There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using www.nismoke.co.uk :

First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.

Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.

First party cookies

NiSmoke

Nismoke.co.uk uses cookies in several places – we’ve listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.

We will endeavour to let you know before we store a cookie on your computer.

Cookies set by NiSmoke website

Name

Purpose

Typical content

Expires

PHPSESSID

Authentication session to prevent having to login multiple times in one browser session.

Hashed data of username and authentication status

Expires on exit

eucookie

Flag that you have explicitly agreed to the EU cookie policy

Numeric code

Expires on exit

currency

To track the currency that you have selected

3 letter currency code (eg GBP)

Expires after 3 months

 

Third party cookies

We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites’ on its behalf. NiSmoke does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.

Provider

Name

Purpose

More info

Google Analytics

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Google Privacy policy

Facebook

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Facebook Social Plugin – embedding Facebook content

Facebook privacy policy

Twitter

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Twitter Plugin – embedding Twitter content 

Twitter privacy policy

 

 

How to control and delete cookies

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.

However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.

If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.

Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors’ use of the site. The NiSmoke Web Team puts together log file information from all our visitors, which we use to make improvements to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it. Log files do not contain any personal information about you.

If you receive the HTML-formatted version of a newsletter, your opening of the newsletter email is notified to us and saved. Your clicks on links in the newsletter are also saved. These and the open statistics are used in aggregate form to give us an indication of the popularity of the content and to help us make decisions about future content and formatting.

Linking to another site from the NiSmoke website

Our website contains links to other sites, mainly those of secure portals, but also to those of other third parties. NiSmoke is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. You should be aware of this when you leave the NiSmoke website and we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit.

 

 

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