Cookies Policy

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Cookies Policy of Midlands Medical Conferences (MMC) and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.

Our cookies help us:

We do not use cookies to:

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

 

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes Google which use cookies:

Social Website Cookies

So, you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use: Google Analytics  – You may, however, opt out of Google Analytics tracking if you prefer.

 

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.

 

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

None of the cookies we use collect your personal information and they can’t be used to identify you.

 

 What Cookies do we use?

  __utma This cookie is deleted after two years Used by Google Analytics to track user count of visits to a site, when a first visit was, and a last visit.
__utmb This cookie is deleted after 30 minutes Used by Google Analytics to track exactly when a user visits a site.
__utmc This cookie is deleted when you close your browser Used by Google Analytics to track exactly when a user leaves a site.
__utmz This cookie is deleted after six months We use analytic information to help us make our website more focussed and better for our website visitors. You may, however, opt out of Google Analytics tracking if you prefer.
bb2_screener_ deleted at end of session Bad Behavior plugin uses this cookie to determine whether a request is a spammer who is rotating through different IP addresses. It is therefore used to maintain the security of our website.
__cfduid This cookie is deleted after one years Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
collect deleted at end of session Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

How to control and delete cookies

If you want to restrict or block the cookies we set, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘help’ function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you could visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on cookies on a wide variety of browsers. You’ll also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer. To learn about controlling cookies on the browser of your mobile device please refer to your handset manual.

You can also find our full Privacy Policy here.

Contact

Midlands Medical Conferences (MMC)

Email: info@midlandsmedicalconferences.org

This page was updated on 6th September 2018