BANIJAY UK COOKIES POLICYWhenever you use our websites, our mobile sites, our mobile applications or our applications on anyother device (“Banijay’s Websites and Digital Products”), information may be collected through theuse of cookies and similar technologies.WHAT ARE ‘COOKIES’?Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your computer or device when you visit a websiteor application.Your web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) then sends thesecookies back to the website or application on each subsequent visit so that they can recognise youand remember things like personalised details or your user preferences.Cookies are very useful and do lots of different jobs, helping to make your experience on websites assmooth as possible. For example, they let you move between web pages efficiently, rememberingyour preferences, and generally improving your experience. Where relevant, they might also help toensure that adverts you see online are relevant to you and your interests.Cookies can be categorised as session or persistent cookies, depending on how long they are used for:Session cookies – only last for the duration of your online session and disappear from your computeror device when you close your browser.Persistent cookies – stay on your computer or device after the browser has been closed and last forthe period of time specified by that cookie. These persistent cookies are activated each time you visitthe site where the cookie was generated.More information can be found at All About Cookies.WHICH COOKIES DO BANIJAY USE AND WHY?When you use Banijay’s Websites and Digital Products, the following 5 categories of cookies may beset on your device:1. ‘Strictly necessary’ cookiesThese cookies are essential for the operation of Banijay’s Websites and Digital Products and are usedin features such as logging in to access secure areas of our websites. Without these cookies, servicesyou have requested cannot be provided. These cookies cannot be switched off in our systems. Theyare usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, suchas setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to blockor alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do notstore any personally identifiable information.Details of the ‘strictly necessary’ cookies used by this Banijay Website and/or Digital Product can befound within the privacy preference centre accessed either via the website cookie banner or via the‘Cookies Settings’ shield located on each webpage. 2. Functional cookiesThese cookies allow websites and applications to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in). They provide enhanced, more personal features. Theinformation these cookies collect is usually anonymised which means we can’t identify you personally.We use these types of cookies to improve your experience on our sites.Details of the ‘functional’ cookies used by this Banijay Website and/or Digital Product can be foundwithin the privacy preference centre accessed either via the website cookie banner or via the ‘CookiesSettings’ shield located on each webpage.3. Analytics cookiesIn order to keep our Websites and Digital Products relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use webanalytics services to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move aroundour website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example,by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. All information these cookies collectis aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when youhave visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.These web analytics services may be designed and operated by other companies on our behalf. Theydo this using small invisible images known as “web beacons” or “tracking pixels”, included within theDigital Product and are used to count the number of times something has been seen. Details of the ‘analytics’ cookies used by this Banijay Website and/or Digital Product can be foundwithin the privacy preference centre accessed either via the website cookie banner or via the ‘CookiesSettings’ shield located on each webpage.4. Targeting cookiesFrom time to time we may also use ‘Targeting cookies’. These assist in advertising in the followingways:They may be placed on your device by our third party service providers which remember that youhave visited our website. This is in order to provide you with targeted adverts more relevant to youand your interests. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquelyidentifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experienceless targeted advertising. This is often called online behavioural advertising (OBA) and is done bygrouping together interests based on experience of web browsing activity. Adverts may then bedisplayed to you on our websites, and others not controlled by us, which match these interests.Personalised retargeting is another form of OBA. It enables our advertiser partners to show youadverts based on your browsing activity away from our websites. For example, if you visited thewebsite of a travel company you may start seeing adverts from the same company informing you oftheir special offers or displaying similar products to those you were browsing. This allows companiesto advertise online directly to their customers. Without these cookies online advertisements youencounter would be less relevant to you and your interests.These cookies will usually be used by third-party networks, such as Google’s Adsense and Doubleclick.Details of the ‘targeting’ cookies used by this Banijay Website and/or Digital Product can be found within the privacy preference centre accessed either via the website cookie banner or via the ‘CookiesSettings’ shield located on each webpage.If you would like more information about OBA, including how to opt-out of these cookies, please visitwww.youronlinechoices.com/uk.5. Social Media CookiesThese cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable youto share our content with your friends and networks, or to include embedded content from Facebookor YouTube for example. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building upa profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites youvisit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.Details of the ‘social media’ cookies used by this Banijay Website and/or Digital Product can be foundwithin the privacy preference centre accessed either via the website cookie banner or via the ‘CookiesSettings’ shield located on each webpage.Banijay cannot access these cookies and you should check the third party’s websites for moreinformation about them.HOW TO CONTROL YOUR COOKIESThere are various ways that you can control and manage your cookies which are discussed in a bitmore detail below.Please remember that any settings you change will not just affect Banijay’s cookies. These changeswill apply to all websites that you visit (unless you choose to block cookies from particular sites).Managing cookies in your browserMost modern browsers will allow you to:• See what cookies you’ve got and delete them on an individual basis.• Block third party cookies.• Block cookies from particular sites.• Block all cookies from being set.• Delete all cookies when you close your browser.You should be aware that your preferences might be lost if you delete all cookies. Coincidentally, thismay include where you have opted out from cookies as this can require an opt-out cookie to be used.Also, if you block cookies completely many websites will not work properly and some functionalitymay not work at all.Managing Third Party CookiesIf you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn theseoff separately. This is discussed in more detail below but the links below will take you to the ‘Help’sections for each of the major browsers and allow you to find out more about how to manage yourcookies. Microsoft Edgehttps://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacyInternet Explorerhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-managecookiesFirefoxhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefoxGoogle Chromehttps://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GBOperahttp://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/Safarihttps://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265 and https://support.apple.com/engb/guide/safari/sfri11471/macManaging analytics cookiesIt is possible to opt out of having your anonymised browsing activity within websites recorded byanalytics cookies. You can opt out of the cookies used by any of our Analytics providers following thelink below.Please note that this will take you to the relevant third party’s websites and generate a ‘no thanks’cookie, stopping any further cookies being set by them.Don’t forget, disabling analytics cookies will stop us from being able to learn what you like or don’tlike about our Digital Products and make it harder for us to improve them.Google Analyticshttp://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptoutManaging advertising cookiesIf you want to opt out from receiving targeted advertising this does not mean that you will receive lessadvertising when you use our Digital Products, it just means that the advertising you see will not becustomised to you.If you still want to opt out of these third party advertising cookies, you can do this by visiting theInteractive Advertising Bureau’s website www.youronlinechoices.com/uk. Importantly however, thiswebsite lists many more networks than those used by Banijay.Please remember that if you choose to opt out of targeted advertising from a specific company or viawww.youronlinechoices.com/uk, it only applies to the web browser on the device you are using. You will therefore need to follow the same process on every device and web browser you use to exercisethe same choice.Managing flash cookiesThe most common types of cookies are HTTP cookies. You can control these using the mechanismsdescribed above. As well as HTTP cookies however, there are other technologies which work in asimilar way. Currently, the most common of these are Flash Local Stored Objects (LSOs). Some partsof our Digital Products use LSOs. They can be controlled manually by visiting the Adobe website:http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.htmlLSOs may be used to store user preferences for media player functionality for example. Without themsome video content may not play properly.
