Cookie Policy - TownPlanning.info

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer when you visit a website. They, and similar technologies, are widely used to make websites work, or run more efficiently, as well as to provide information to TownPlanning.info. They do this by allowing the website to recognise a user’s device from past visits.

The term cookie is used to describe a range of technologies, such as:

Pixel tags
Beacons
Mobile device identifiers
Web storage used in desktop software or mobile devices

Cookies do a variety of different tasks, such as navigating between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience. They can also help to ensure that ads that you see online are related to you and your interests.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIE DO WE USE?

We use the following types of cookies:

Strictly Necessary. These cookies are necessary to allow us to provide the services via our website to you as you have requested. For example, they enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Functional. These are used to improve the functional performance of the website and make it easier for you to use. For example, they are used to remember that you have previously visited the website, to personalise our content, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Performance. These cookies are used to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily. These cookies are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Targeting and Advertising. These cookies record your visit to our website and your browsing habits, such as the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They are used to deliver advertising which is more relevant to your interests and also may be used to limit the number of times that you see an advertisement. They may be placed by us or by advertising networks with our permission.
Third Party. We may allow our Service providers and/or Business partners to use cookies on or outside of our website for the same purposes identified above, including information about different websites, applications and/or devices you have used or visited over time.
Our Ads. We work with advertising networks to deliver advertisements and other content promoting us on other websites and services. Cookies and other similar technologies may be used to serve you with relevant advertisements on other websites, applications or devices, and to regulate the advertisements you receive and measure their effectiveness.

Please note, these cookies do not contain any of your personal information. For details on how to manage cookies and how to opt out of targeting and advertising cookies see below.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Advertisers and Analytics

Our advertisers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:

(a) to track your browser across multiple websites;

(b) to build a profile of your web surfing; and

We use cookies from the following third parties:

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect statistical information regarding how the website is used. This information is not personally identifiable.

Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display ads on some of our pages. Google AdSense may use user data. You can review Google’s privacy policy regarding advertising here. That page also provides information on how to manage what information is collected and how to opt out of collection.

The DoubleClick Cookie

The DoubleClick cookie is used by Google in the ads served on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying AdSense ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a partner’s website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

MANAGING COOKIES

Browser Cookies

All recent versions of popular browsers allow you to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies.

If you want to disable cookies on our site, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Please be aware that some areas of our website may not function properly after you have changed your cookie settings.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit wikipedia.org, or www.aboutcookies.org.

You may be also interested to visit this page for instructions how to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest based advertising.

Mobile Identifiers

Your mobile device operating system (e.g., iOS or Android) may provide you with options to opt out of interest-based advertising by selecting “Limit Ad tracking” or “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads”.