Our Cookies Policy

Due to recent changes in law, all Web sites which operate across certain parts of the European Union are required to obtain explicit consent to use or store cookies (or similar technologies) on your computers or mobile device.

This policy provides information about the cookies we use on our Dancesport.co.uk website, explains how and why we use those cookies.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded and stored on your computer, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.

TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE ON THIS SITE

STRICLTY NECESSARY COOKIES

Some of the cookies on our website are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. This includes accessing secure areas of the website such as your user account or posting ads.

PERFORMANCE COOKIES

This type of cookies collect information about how user’s use our website, for instance which pages they go to most often, and if they experience any errors. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies you or other users, they collect aggregated information and therefore anonymous. Performance cookies are only used to improve performance and effectiveness of our website and understand what interests our users.

If you prevent the performance cookies we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you. 

THIRD PARTY COOKIES AND ‘TARGETING COOKIES’

'Targeting' cookies (or 'advertising' cookies) collect information about your browsing habits and are used in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are used by services provided by third parties, such as 'Like' buttons and 'Share' buttons. Cookies from sharethis.com are used to allow you to send a page from our website to your social media account such as Facebook or Twitter. Cookies from Google and YouTube are also used. The YouTube cookie is set on pages that contain YouTube videos. These third party cookies are not under our control. For further information about their use see sharethis.com, www.google.com and www.youtube.com. In addition, on pages of our Web site you will see 'social buttons' that link to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These enable users to share or bookmark pages. If you use these buttons, cookies may be placed by addthis.com as well as the social network in question for analytics and other purposes in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

HOW WE USE COOKIES?

The cookies we use provide us with anonymised and technical information.  They record the IP address (a unique number which identifies your computer and its location on the internet) of visitors to our site. This helps us to make sure that the site is easy to navigate, pages load faster, that we can distinguish you from other users of our Web site, identify the areas that are of particular interest to our visitors, generally improve the site and our services and deliver personalized content to you. The information that we collect in this process will not identify you as an individual unless you volunteer your contact details through one of the contact forms available on the site.

Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site.

BY USING OUR WEBSITE YOU AGREE THATH WE CAN PLACE THESE TYPES OF COOKIES ON YOUR DEVICE.

HOW TO DELETE, BLOCK AND CHOOSE COOKIES

CHANGING YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS

You may choose to accept or reject cookies by changing your internet browser settings. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies as explained above) you may not be able to access or utilise all or parts of our site. Users who refuse cookies assume all responsibility for any resulting loss of functionality.

You can delete your cookies currently placed on your device by using your internet browser settings. The way of doing this varies depending on the browser type you use. Please see below some helpful information on how to change your Internet browser cookies’ settings.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196955)

Cookie settings in Firefox (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Cookies)

Cookie settings in Chrome (http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647)

Cookie settings in Safari (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677)

For further information on deleting or blocking cookies, please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=2.

SUBMITTING YOUR CONTACT DETAILS

You can contact us by using the contact form on our site that invites you to submit your contact details and other information about yourself or your business and to send us a contact or inquiry emails which will, of course, also identify you.

HOW WE USE THIS INFORMATION?

We will indicate which of the requested information is essential for the relevant purpose and which is optional. Fields for essential information are marked with an asterisk. We will not use your information for purposes other than that for which you provide your details, and will not disclose it outside Dancesport.co.uk, except to service providers acting on our behalf or in other very limited circumstances, for example, where we are legally obliged to do so.

ADVERTISERS

To learn more about how advertisers generally use cookies and the choices advertisers provide, visit the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, the Internet Advertising Bureau (US), or the Internet Advertising Bureau (EU).