Cookies Policy

Last updated: December 13th, 2022

Like many other websites, Performing Media Ltd (“We”) and its partners (e.g. third-party service providers, advertising and marketing partners, etc.) may use cookies and pixels when you visit (“Website”) or access the services provided on Our Website. The aim of this Cookies Policy is to provide the Website users (“You” or “User”) with clarity and transparency on how We collect and use cookies (“Policy”).

1 What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you access websites on the internet. Cookies help Users navigate around our website and allow Us to tailor the content of our site to fit the needs and preferences of Users. None of the cookies We use collects your personal information (e.g. names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses), and they can’t be used to identify You as an individual. They typically collect anonymous identifiers associated with your device, browser, referring site URLs, time or usage information, Website preferences and settings, etc. (as further provided in this Policy). You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org

2. Types of Cookies we use

We use the following types of cookies on our Website: Essential Cookies These are cookies which are:

Used only to make our website work properly; OR
Strictly necessary for us to provide the services which our users expect

Non-Essential CookiesThese are cookies which are not required for our website to function or behave as the user would expect it to. These include cookies relating to:

Marketing, which gather information about the user’s browsing patterns and behaviour to target them with advertisements which would be more likely to interest them
Statistics, which help website owners gather information about users on their website, such as when they first visited the website and/or how often they access it and at what particular time. These also include cookies that log how the user came across the website, using which search engine or other link.

This list provides you with detail of cookies on our website and the forum:

Non-essential cookies (listed by purpose):

Analytical (Google Analytics)

Used to distinguish users
Persistent cookie
Lasts 730 days
No international transfer of the data
Third Pary – Google Analytics

Analytical Google Analytics)

Used to distinguish users
Persistent cookie
Lasts 1 day
No international transfer of the data
Third Pary – Google Analytics

Advertisement

Encrypted Facebook ID and browser ID
Persistent cookie
Lasts 90 days
No international transfer of the data
Third party – Facebook

Essential cookies (listed by purpose):

Cloudflare mandatory cookie

Identifies individual clients behind a shared IP address and applies security settings on a per-client basis
Persistent cookie
Lasts 365 days
No international transfer of the data
Third pary – Facebook

Forum

These are used to authorize you when you re-visit a community. Other cookies are used to provide a service at the user’s request, such as changing a theme or using Commerce’s cart.
No international transfer of the data
Session cookie

3. How we use cookies

We use cookies for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to:

to assist new visitors during the sign-up process,
to allow visitors to set Website preferences,
to allow visitors to navigate between pages of the Website more efficiently,
to run the functionality of the Website optimally and efficiently
to activate certain features of the Website.
to gather information about visitor/Users activity on the Website and to understand how it is used,
to detect and prevent fraudulent use of the Website,
to track how visitors/Users, arrive at our Website for marketing purposes and to track referrals,
to deliver more relevant advertising to our visitors/Users at the websites and mobile applications they visit
for research and analytical purposes to see who Users interact with the Website in aggregate

We do not, under any circumstance, sell information collected via cookies.

4. Managing cookies

If you do not want Websites to place cookies on Your computer or mobile device at all, you can adapt your browser settings as such that you will be notified before any cookie is placed. You can likewise adapt the settings as such so that your browser refuses all cookies, or only the third party cookies. Likewise, you can remove any of your cookies that have already been placed. Please note that you will have to separately adapt the settings for each browser, mobile device and computer You use. Without cookies enabled we couldn’t guarantee that our website and Your experience of it would be optimal. It is important to note that different browsers offer differing ways to configure your browser’s cookie settings. The following links provide you with the steps on how to use to erase or adjust cookie file on your particular browser: Internet Explorer – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences Google Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en Safari – https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_US If necessary, consult your browser’s “help” function, or go to your browser’s manual. If you wish to disconnect cookies of specific parties, you can do this through www.youronlinechoices.eu. Please note that We aren’t responsible for the content of external websites.