Cookies Policy
Cookie Policy v2.6
This Cookie Policy applies to information collected and used by World of Books Group Limited ("we," "our" or "us") when you visit our website. This information is collected through instruments known as cookies and various other technologies used to set and interact with cookies on our site, including tools such as web beacons and tracking pixels (all referred to as "cookies").
You are free to ask us to (or set your browser or operating system settings to) limit certain tracking or to decline cookies in relation to cookies which are not necessary, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on our website.
In certain circumstances, we collect personal information about you through these cookies which may include your IP address, information about the way you use our website, your choice of internet browser and the type of device you're accessing our website from. This is in order for us to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users' movements, and to collect information about users which may be relevant to offering our services to you. Where any information we collect through cookies qualifies as personal information, our Privacy Policy as well as this Cookie Policy, applies to the collection and use of such personal information.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small files placed onto your computer or mobile phone by certain websites that you visit or e-mails that you open. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies can be 'first-party' or 'third-party' depending on the domain that sets them. In relation to our website, first-party cookies are set by us and information is collected and used by us in accordance with the terms of this Cookie Policy and our online Privacy Policy. Third-party cookies are set by third parties and information is collected and used in accordance with their policies.
First and third-party cookies are either 'persistent' or 'session' cookies depending on their duration. Persistent cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in those cookies and are activated each time that user visits the website that created the cookies, until the cookies expire or are disabled by the user. Session cookies allow the actions of a user to be linked during a single browsing session. A session starts when a user opens a browser window, stores information while you are browsing and ends when you leave the website and close the browser window, following which all session cookies are deleted. Our platforms use both persistent and session cookies. We have set out clearly in the table below when our cookies expire.
COOKIES WE USE
We use the following types of cookies on our platforms:
Strictly Necessary: These cookies have a legal definition. These cookies should be essential. Examples include cookies that are essential for the proper functioning of a site. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
COOKIES REGISTER
We keep a record of all the cookies we use on our website to provide clear information to you and we update this register regularly.
| Cookie Name | Category (e.g. necessary/analytics/functional/social media, etc.) | Description | Source (e.g. first party or third party – such as Google) | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWSALBCORS | Strictly Necessary Cookies | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | eu.digitalgenius.com | 6 Days |
| AWSALB | Strictly Necessary Cookies | AWS ELB application load balancer | eu.digitalgenius.com | 6 Days |
| CONSENT | Functional Cookies | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | youtube.com | 6107 Days |
| RoktRecogniser | Targeting Cookies | This cookie allows you to accurately track consumers to their purchase behavior | First Party | 364 Days |
| joe-custinfo | Functional Cookies | Freshdesk bot functionality cookie | First Party | 29 Days |
| mc | Targeting Cookies | This cookie is usually provided by Quantserve to track anonymous information about how website visitors use the site. | quantserve.com | 395 Days |
| _tt_enable_cookie | Targeting | TikTok pixel | First Party | 389 Days |
| xnpe_08ef69fa-5d8a-11ec-a755-fe8e672b4661 | Targeting | Customer's Bloomreach Engagement generated server-side cookie | api.uk.exponea.com | 1094 Days |
| IDE | Targeting Cookies | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | doubleclick.net | 389 Days |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Strictly Necessary Cookies | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | First Party | 364 Days |
| exponea_time2 | Performance Cookies | Timestamp offset between browser and server time | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| countryCode | Functional Cookies | Functional cookie for locale/iplookup | First Party | 3649 Days |
| _ga | Performance Cookies | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga | First Party | 729 Days |
| _ttp | Targeting Cookies | TikTok pixel | First Party | |
| FPGSID | Performance Cookies | Used for internal statistical analysis. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| _gid | Targeting Cookies | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Targeting Cookies | Google conversion tracking cookie | First Party | 729 Days |
| iutk | Performance Cookies | Recognises the user's device and what documents have been read. | issuu.com | 179 Days |
| _fbp | Targeting Cookies | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | First Party | 89 Days |
| _uetsid | Targeting Cookies | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| OptanonConsent | Strictly Necessary Cookies | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | First Party | 364 Days |
| akaalb_Instance-1 | Targeting | These cookies are utilized by Rokt’s content delivery network provider to match user requests to their physical region. To optimize data processing and communication speeds, these cookies help users’ browsers communicate with Rokt servers in the same geographic location. These cookies do not contain any PII and expire once the user closes the browser tab. | apps.rokt.com | Session |
| _hjTLDTest | Performance Cookies | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | First Party | Session |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Strictly Necessary Cookies | Google reCAPTCHA to help protect the website from spam and abuse | google.com | 179 Days |
| userToken | Strictly Necessary Cookies | user | First Party | 6 Days |
| _ga_MYHZWLZDCC | Targeting Cookies | _ga | First Party | 727 Days |
| exponea_etc | Performance Cookies | Customer's Bloomreach Engagement generated client-side cookie | First Party | 1094 Days |
| SM | Performance Cookies | This is a Microsoft MSN cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. | c.clarity.ms | Session |
| _ttp | Targeting Cookies | TikTok pixel | First Party | 389 Days |
| _rll_c_516_c | Tracking Cookies | First Party | 29 Days | |
| _rlgm | Targeting Cookies | First Party | 364 Days | |
| _uetvid | Tracking Cookies | hotjar.com | Analytics Cookie | Session |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | Tracking Cookies | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | First Party | 389 Days |
| _rlsnk | Targeting Cookies | First Party | Session | |
| DEVICE_INFO | Targeting Cookies | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | youtube.com | 179 Days |
| _gclxxxx | Performance Cookies | Google conversion tracking cookie | First Party | 89 Days |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Performance Cookies | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| _rll_c_517_c | Tracking Cookies | First Party | 29 Days | |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_2739417 | Performance Cookies | hotjar | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| cg_uuid | Functional Cookies | This server-side cookie hosted by cheqzone.com detects when the same device is used in a separate browser session, ensuring consistent blocking of fraudulent or malicious sessions. This cookie lasts for up to 365 days. | aut.australiarevival.com | 335 Days |
| MUID | Targeting Cookies | This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. | Bing.com | 390 Days |
| _rll_c_473_sc | Tracking Cookies | First Party | Session | |
| ANONCHK | Performance | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the website. | c.clarity.ms | Less than 1 day |
| FPLC | Targeting Cookies | Google analytics | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| _rll_c_516_sd | Tracking Cookies | First Party | Session | |
| _rll_c_516_d | Tracking Cookies | First Party | 29 Days | |
| _hjSessionUser_2739417 | Performance Cookies | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | First Party | 364 Days |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Performance Cookies | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| _cq_duid | Strictly Necessary Cookies | Cheq sets this cookie to safeguard the website against malicious traffic. It keep an eye on the technical data and usage of the devices that connect to it. | First Party | 91 Days |
| _clsk | Targeting Cookies | to store and combine pageviews by a user into a single session recording. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| NetOutcome | Targeting Cookies | This cookie name is associated with software from Redeye International Ltd, a UK company providing services for better targeting of marketing messages to a website owner's customers. | reporting.e-wob.com | 5096 Days |
| spd-custhash | Functional Cookies | Freshdesk bot functionality cookie | First Party | 364 Days |
| joe-chnlcustid | Functional Cookies | Freshdesk bot functionality cookie | First Party | 364 Days |
| _cq_suid | Strictly Necessary Cookies | Cheq sets this cookie to safeguard the website against malicious traffic. It keep an eye on the technical data and usage of the devices that connect to it. | First Party | Session |
| unbxd.visitId | Targeting | unbxd cookie used for gaining customer insights to improve shopping personalisation. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| FPID | Targeting Cookies | The FPID cookie is what server-side Google Tag Manager would prefer to use for your Google Analytics 4 tracking | First Party | 729 Days |
| _hjSession_2739417 | Performance Cookies | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| FPAU | Targeting Cookies | Campaign Manager, Display & Video 360, Google Ads, Search Ads 360 | First Party | 89 Days |
| _rlu | Tracking Cookies | First Party | 364 Days | |
| ConstructorioID_client_id | Targeting Cookies | First Party | 364 Days | |
| _cq_check | Strictly Necessary Cookies | Cheq sets this cookie to safeguard the website against malicious traffic. It keep an eye on the technical data and usage of the devices that connect to it. | First Party | Session |
| _rl_rl | Tracking Cookies | First Party | 364 Days | |
| TS012613b7 | Tracking Cookies | reporting.e-wob.com | Session | |
| redeye | Targeting | This cookie name is associated with software from Redeye International Ltd, a UK company providing services for better targeting of marketing messages to a website owner's customers | reporting.e-wob.com | Less than 1 day |
| _clsk | Performance Cookies | To store and combine pageviews by a user into a single session recording in Microsoft Clarity. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Targeting Cookies | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. | youtube.com | 180 Days |
| _rll_c_493_sc | Tracking Cookies | First Party | Session | |
| _rll_c_517_d | Tracking Cookies | 29 Days | ||
| SRM_B | Targeting Cookies | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. | c.bing.com | 389 Days |
| _gat | Performance Cookies | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes._ga | First Party | Less than 1 Day |
| test_cookie | Targeting Cookies | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. | doubleclick.net | Less than one day |
| _rll_c_493_sd | First Party | Session | ||
| YSC | Targeting Cookies | YSC' is used by YouTube to remember user input and associate a user's actions | youtube.com | Session |
| _rll_c_517_sd | Tracking Cookies | First Party | Session | |
| CLID | Targeting Cookies | Microsoft clarity | www.clarity.ms | 364 Days |
| _rdt_uuid | Targeting Cookies | reddit tracking | First Party | 89 Days |
| _hjFirstSeen | Performance Cookies | Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | Performance Cookies | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Performance Cookies | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | First Party | Less than 1 day |
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ('Google') Google Analytics uses cookies (text files placed on your computer) to help us analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the UK. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage, such as facilitating remarketing. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
DISABLING THE USE OF COOKIES
You can view and manage cookie settings here
Cookies Settings
You may also refuse to accept cookies by changing the settings of your Internet browser. If you do not want cookies to be placed on your device, you can control this through your browser's settings. Please refer to the links below for each browser's guide on how to turn off or delete cookies.
Alternatively, you can control some third party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
If you choose not to allow the use of cookies, some areas of our website may not function properly or be accessible, and you'll need to accept the use of cookies and provide other cookie-preference information again if you change your mind.
As explained above, we use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. If you'd like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here.
CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
From time to time we may make changes to this Cookie Policy to ensure that it is accurate and up to date and to reflect any changes in the law. This policy was last updated on October 9, 2023.
Contacting us and making a complaint
If you have comments, questions or complaints about or requests relating to this Cookie Policy statement, please contact us using: data@worldofbooks.com.