Cookie Policy

1. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

1. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
2. Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way. There are many functions cookies serve. For example, they can help us to remember your username, any promotion code(s), preferences and analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.
3. Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click to “remember me” when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location. Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.
4. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

1. It is important to note that different Cookies do different jobs, below are a summary of Cookies used on this website. 
2. Necessary Cookies – These Cookies are essential to make our website work correctly, they enable you to move around our website and use our features. Without these, you would not be able to navigate between pages or use certain vital features of our website. 
3. Performance Cookies – These Cookies collect and report on aggregate non-identifiable information, which helps us understand the performance of the website and provides insights on how the site is currently used and how it can be improved for visitors. These Cookies provide information such as the areas you have visited, the time spent on the website, and any issues you encounter, such as error messages.
4. Functionality Cookies – These Cookies allow our website to remember if you have previously visited the site or the choices you make (such as your preferences) to provide a more personalised online experience.
5. Targeting/Advertising Cookies – These Cookies are used to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may be used to deliver targeted advertising or to limit the number of times you see an advertisement.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

1. We may also use cookies or similar e-mail tracking technologies to monitor the success of e-mail campaigns we operate (for example, recording how many e-mails in a campaign were opened, the IP address, browser or email client types which the emails were read). If you do not want us to track emails we send you, some email services let you change your display to turn off HTML or disable download of images and exercising these rights should effectively disable our email tracking. In addition, you may also unsubscribe from our marketing emails as described in those emails.

1. As we’ve explained above, cookies help you to get the most out of our websites. The first time you accessed our website you should have seen an overlay which explained that by continuing to access our site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. However, if you do wish to disable our cookies then please follow the instructions below under “How to Manage Cookies”. 
   Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly.

1. As we explain in our Cookie Policy, cookies help you to get the most out of our website. If you do disable our cookies you may find that certain sections of our website do not work. 

1. If you are concerned about behaviourally targeted advertising cookies (which serve you advertisements based on your use of BeYouonlin.co.uk), users based in the European Union can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu and users based in the US can visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to opt out of these third party cookies. The above websites are not BeYou sites and we are not responsible for their content. 

• Google Chrome

1. Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar Select Settings click ‘Show advanced settings’. In the “Privacy” section, click the ‘Content settings’ button To enable cookies in the “Cookies” section, pick ‘Allow local data to be set’, this will enable both first-party and third-party cookies. To allow only first-party cookies pick ‘Block all third-party cookies without exception’ To disable cookies, in the “Cookies” section, pick ‘Block sites from setting any data’ Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page from Google: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

• Safari on OSX

1. Click on ‘Safari’ at the menu bar and select the ‘Preferences’ option Click on ‘Security’. To enable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Only from site you navigate to’. To disable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Never’. Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to the following page from Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html All other browsers Please look for a “help” function in the browser or contact the browser provider.

• Mozilla Firefox

1. Click on ‘Tools’ at the browser menu and select ‘Options’ Select the Privacy panel To enable cookies: Check ‘Accept cookies for sites’. To disable cookies: Uncheck ‘Accept cookies for sites’. Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Firefox. For more information, refer to the following page from Mozilla: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies

• Opera

1. Click on ‘Setting’ at the browser menu and select ‘Settings’ Select ‘Quick Preferences’. To enable cookies: check “Enable Cookies” To disable cookies: uncheck “Enable Cookies” Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Opera. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Opera, refer to the following page from Opera SoRACware: www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/.

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

1. Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select ‘Internet Options’ In the options window navigate to the ‘Privacy’ tab To enable cookies: Set the slider to ‘Medium’ or below To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Explorer. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to the following page from Microsoft: http://windows.Microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

1. More detail on how businesses use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.