Cookie Policy
See also: Cookie Management, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use
We use cookies and similar tools across our websites to improve their performance and enhance your user experience. This policy explains how we do that.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the
website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. 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 and preferences, analyse how well our website is
performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.
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.
What sort of cookies does Melody Tutors use?
Generally, our cookies perform up to four different functions:
- Essential cookies - Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website. For example, some cookies allow us to identify subscribers and ensure they can access the
subscription only pages. If a subscriber opts to disable these cookies, the user will not be able to access all of the content that a subscription entitles
them to.
- Analytical and/or Performance Cookies
- Some cookies analyse how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and
to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This can help us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that
users are finding what they are looking for easily. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which
method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to
highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the website.
- Functionality Cookies
- We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences for your return visits to our website. For example, cookies save you the trouble of
typing in your username every time you access the site. This also enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your
preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- 4. Behaviourally Targeted Advertising Cookies
- Melody Tutors use cookies to record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this
information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties
for this purpose anonymously. We do not tell third parties who you are.
Does anyone else use cookies on
Melody Tutors websites?
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may
also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Advertisers for
example sometimes use their own cookies to provide you with targeted advertising. If you are based in the European Union and would like to learn more about
how advertisers use these types of cookies or to choose not to receive them, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu. If you are based in the United States and would like to learn
more, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Google Cookies
Melody Tutors uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of our websites. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about
website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about
the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Melody Tutors publishes Google Adsense interest-based advertisements on our websites. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your
interests, Google will track your behaviour across the web using cookies. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser
using Google's Ads Preference Manager, available at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. You can opt-out of the Adsense partner network cookie at:
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. However, this opt-out mechanism uses a cookie, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not
be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in available at:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.
Other third party cookies
When you use our websites, you may also be sent various third party cookies, which may include but is not limited to the following purposes:
- AddThis.com social bookmarking, sharing and following functionality
- Google Maps embed codes
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YouTube video embed codes
Can a website user block cookies?
As we’ve explained above, cookies help you to get the most out of our websites.
The first time you access 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 on our “How to Manage Cookies” page.
Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly
More Information
More detail on how businesses use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.