A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to your computer when you access certain websites. Like virtual door keys, cookies unlock a computer’s memory and allow a website to recognise users when they return to a site by opening doors to different content or services. Like a key, a cookie itself does not contain information, but when it is read by a browser it can help a website improve the service delivered.
Cookie files are automatically lodged into the cookie file – the memory of your browser – and each one typically contains:
The website server which sent the cookie uses this number to recognise you when you return to a site or browse from page to page. Only the server that sent a cookie can read, and therefore use, that cookie.
Source: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/uk
We use cookies to help you navigate our website efficiently and to perform certain functions, including website traffic analysis. Cookies may also recognise you on your next login and offer you content tailored to your preferences and interests.
Some cookies can collect personal information, including information you disclose like your username, or where cookies track you to deliver more relevant advertising content. For further details on how we use your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.
Discovery may place cookies on your device for various purposes: to help you to navigate the Site more easily, to administer and provide the Site to you and to deliver better and more personalised content on the Site.
The cookies we place enable us for instance:
– to adapt the display format of our content and our Site to your device,
– to recognise your device, so that you do not have to re-enter the same information each time you access the Site
Third parties are likely to place cookies on your device.
We do not control the placing and use of cookies by third party companies and we are not responsible for third parties’ use of cookies. These companies have their own privacy policies and data collection practices. Please refer to each company’s privacy policy to better understand the controls available to you.
The purpose of the third party cookies of which we are aware is to provide audience-measurement and social-sharing functions and to customise content or advertising.
Audience-measurement cookies are used by third parties for us to obtain information about your browsing patterns, so as to (among other things):
These tools use technologies for tracking website users and associating a ‘referrer’ or campaign with a unique identifier.
We may offer you the possibility to share our content with other people or render public your viewing or appreciation of such content by clicking on social media sharing buttons such as Recommend (Facebook, Google+), Tweet (Twitter) or Send by email.
Even if you do not use social media share buttons when visiting the Site, the social networks that provided the buttons can identify you through them. Indeed, the mere fact that your account with a social network is activated on your device (open session) when you browse the Site, can allow that network to monitor your navigation of the Site.
Cookies are likely to be placed on your device through advertising spaces on the Site.
These cookies may be set at the level of the advertising content displayed in our advertising spaces either by the advertisers themselves, or by their ad serving providers (third party ad servers) such as communications consultancies, audience measuring firms and targeted advertising providers: the cookies are associated with the advertising content.
The main purposes for which advertisers and third party ad servers use cookies are:
Our website uses several types of cookies including:
You can control how cookies are set on your device by adjusting your browser settings (see below).
You can allow and deactivate cookies/trackers or exercise your choices regarding how IAB Transparency & Consent Framework participants may collect or use your data via our cookie preference centre available through the “Manage Preferences” button above. Please note that blocking all cookies can render some of the Services unavailable to you or have a negative effect on the performance, efficiency or customisation of the Services.
Please note that Discovery participates in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework and complies with its policies and specifications. Discovery uses the Consent Management Platform with the identification number 28.
You can also control how cookies/trackers are set on your device by using your browser settings and, in some cases, the settings on your mobile device.
If you disable a cookie already installed on your browser, it will not be active any more, but it will not disappear from your browser until the end of its lifespan. Please note that blocking all cookies can render some of the Site unavailable to you or have a negative effect on the performance, efficiency or customisation of Site.
If you do not refuse or disable cookies as described in this section, you expressly consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your personal data by us and the third-parties listed above, subject to their privacy policies. Not limiting the foregoing, you expressly consent to the use of cookies and the collection, use and sharing of your personal data by us with Google (e.g. in connection with the use of Google Analytics on our Site).
Each browser is configured differently. You should follow the instructions given by the publisher of your browser. As of the date of revision of this Cookie Policy, these instructions are available for commonly used browsers through the following links:
If you use Microsoft Edge:
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
If you use Internet Explorer:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
If you use Safari:
https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21447?locale=en_US
If you use Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
If you use Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en
If you use different devices, make sure you configure the settings of the corresponding browser according to your preferences.
The privacy policies of social networks should allow you to exercise your choices regarding cookies, typically by configuring your user account settings on each such network.
To find out more about cookies and obtain cookie management tools, please visit the following websites:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
http://www.iab.net/privacymatters/4.php