COOKIE POLICY

Contents

What is a cookie?

How do we use cookies?

What types of cookies do we use ?

How do we use cookies for advertising?

How to manage advertising cookies

Useful links

For more information about the use of cookies while visiting our sites, please email info@thehotjem.com.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device that allows us to recognize and remember you. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive or tablet or mobile device. When you visit our sites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our site, including 

Understanding how you use our site

Showing you journalism that is relevant to you

Showing you products and services that are relevant to you our sites and apps

Working with partners to serve you relevant advertising

Keeping you signed in

Ultimately, this allows us to publish the content that you read on our site.

In the next section, we explain in more detail how we use cookies and similar technology on our site for a number of purposes. Other organizations also collect user information on our sites through cookies.

Using cookies and other technology allows other organizations to help us to analyze how our site is being used, measure the number of visitors to the site, and display better targeted advertising. Cookies that are used by THE HOTJEM are referred to as “first-party cookies” and those that are used by our partners are “third-party cookies”. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access third-party cookies; nor can other organizations access the data in the cookies we use on our website. There are more details about both in the following sections.

What types of cookies do we use?

We use four types of cookies, which we describe in this section.

• Essential – cookies that are essential to provide you with services you have requested. For example, these include the cookies that make it possible for you to have our newsletters emailed to you and to contact us using our contact form.

If you set your browser to block these cookies, then these functions and services will not work for you. In particular, we won’t be able to save your preferences about cookies.

• Performance – cookies which measure how often you visit our sites and how you use them. We use this information to get a better sense of how our users engage with our journalism and to improve our sites and apps, so that users have a better experience. For example, we collect information about which of our pages are most frequently visited. We also use third-party cookies to help with performance. For example, the Google Analytics cookie gives us information such as your journey between pages and whether you have downloaded anything (details of how to opt out of it are below).
• Functionality – cookies that are used to recognize you and remember your preferences or settings when you return to our site, so that we can provide you with a more personalized experience. For example, if you are based in the United Kingdom, we will remember this and make sure that you receive the UK homepage when you visit our site, rather than the US or Australia homepage. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

• Advertising – cookies that are used to collect information about your visit to our site, the content you have viewed, the links you have followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address. We have set out more details on this below.

How do we use cookies for advertising?

Cookies are a key part of how we deliver advertising on our sites. Among other uses, they allow us to show more relevant advertising to people who visit thehotjem.com by showing you adverts that are based on your browsing patterns and the way you have interacted with our site. We can then show you adverts which we believe may interest you.

As you browse our site, some of the cookies and similar technology we place on your device are for advertising, so we can understand what sorts of pages you read and are interested in. We can then display advertising on your browser based on these interests. For instance, if you have been reading a lot of food and drink articles, you may be shown more adverts for food and drink.

The advertising techniques we use do not collect information such as your name, email address, postal address or phone number. We sometimes use information such as your IP address and browser type and also sometimes share some limited aspects of this with third parties for advertising purposes.

There are times when we want to reach THE HOTJEM readers who use social media to market our own products and services such as magazines.  We use cookies to help with this.

We may also share online data collected through cookies and similar technology with our advertising partners. This means that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on thehotjem.com. We may also show you advertising on thehotjem.com website based on your browsing patterns on other sites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.

Online retargeting is another form of online advertising that allows us and some of our advertising partners to show you advertising based on your browsing patterns and interactions with other sites. The use of cookies may mean that when you are on another site, you may be shown advertising based on what you have looked at on thehotjem.com.

For example, if you have visited the website of an online clothes shop, you may start seeing adverts from that same shopping site displaying special offers or showing you the products you were browsing. This allows companies to advertise to you if you leave their website without making a purchase.

How to manage advertising cookies

You can manage the use of cookies, including advertising cookies. In some cases you can turn off advertising cookies on a cookie-by-cookie basis, and we give the most common examples below.

It is also possible to stop your browser from accepting cookies altogether by changing your browser’s cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. The following links may be helpful, or you can use the “Help” option in your browser.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

Cookie settings in Firefox

Cookie settings in Chrome

Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS

Useful links

If you would like to find out more about privacy, cookies and their use on the internet, you may find the following links useful:

Microsoft Cookie guide

All About Cookies