Cookie Policy

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.

Cookies are small data files that most website operators place in the browser or hard drive of their user's computer. Cookies may gather information about the user's use of the website or enable the website to recognise the user as an existing customer when they return to the website at a later date.

If you block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

By accepting our privacy policy and terms and conditions of business you consent to the use of cookies as described within this policy.

We do not currently use the following cookies:

Functionality cookies. These would be used to recognise you when you return to our website. This would enable us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). We don’t use cookies to do this.

Targeting cookies. These cookies would record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We could use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We don’t do this. We could also share this information with third parties for this purpose. We don’t do this.

By applying for a username or posting a message, you accept that your message and other personal details about you will be analysed and stored for anti-spam and quality monitoring purposes.

How to manage cookies

Cookies are sent to your browser by a website, and then stored in the cookies directory on your computer. To check and update your cookies settings, you will need to know what browser you are using and what version of it you have. You can usually find this out by opening the browser (just as you do to use the internet), then clicking on ‘Help’ and then ‘About’. This will give you information about the browser version you are using.
To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage cookies, follow the link below. You can also read your browser’s built-in or online help for more information.
How to control cookies www.aboutcookies.org.

Cookies we use:

Functional cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

These are functional cookies that are required for the operation of our website.

Cookie name	Default expiration time	Description
`cookiesjsr`	1 year	When you visited this website for the first time, you were asked for your permission to use several services (including those from third parties) that require data to be saved in your browser (cookies, local storage). Your decisions about each service (allow, deny) are stored in this cookie and are reused each time you visit this website.

Performance and analytical cookies

Google Analytics

We use the following Third-Party services that may also set cookies in order to deliver the services they are providing. If you would like more information about the cookies used by these organisations as well as information on how to opt out, please see their individual privacy policies listed below.

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.

Cookie name	Default expiration time	Description
`_ga _ga_XXXXXXXXXX`	Variable, up to 1 year	A web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of the News App and compile reports for us on activity on the News App. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. 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. By using the News App, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. For information on how to reject or delete this cookie, click here.

Third party analytics

This website uses cookies from Hotjar to analyse website traffic and gather visitor information. Hotjar is built with privacy in mind. Data is collected anonymously unless you give explicit consent to collect personal identifying information. Site users are assigned a unique user identifier, UUID, so that Hotjar can keep track of returning users without relying on any personal information, such as the IP address.

Cookie name	Default expiration time	Description
`_hjSessionUser_xxxxxx`	1 year	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.
`_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress`	30 minutes, extended on activity	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.
`_hjSession_XXXXXXX`	30 minutes, extended on activity	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.
`_hjIncludedInSessionSample`	2 minutes, extended each 30s	Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.
`_hjFirstSeen`	30 minutes, extended on activity	Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time.

Embedded media

Cookies set by third party sites

We sometimes need to embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube and Buzzsprout. As a result, when you visit a page with content from sites like these, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control these so you should check the relevant third-party website for more information.

Other Third-Party processing activities

If you shorten our site URLs, for example on Twitter or Facebook, we may use services such as goo.gl, bit.ly, tinyurl.com and ow.ly to do so, and our site works with these to rebrand our URLs as a https://www. https://casme.com/xxxxx link. Also, our website sometimes offers features that allow users to share links with social networks and our site may shorten that URL using one of these services.

These services provide us with anonymised, aggregated statistics relating to the use of our shortened URL, for example by telling us how many times it has been clicked on. We do not have access to the IP address of your computer collected by these services or any other identifiable information about you. Nor do they have any access to data collected on our website.

For more information on these services please see below:

Google url shortener, goo.gl – Privacy policy

Bitly Enterprise, bit.ly – Privacy policy

TinyURL, tinyurl.com – Terms of use

Ow.ly url shortener, ow.ly - Terms of use

Loomly url shortener, loomly.com - Terms and Privacy

Infogram, infogram.com - Terms and Privacy.

Changes to this policy

As and when necessary, changes to this Policy will be posted on our website. Where changes are significant, we may also email you and where required by law, we will obtain your consent to these changes.

The information on this page was last updated on 30 July 2023.