The privacy of our visitors to www.thebigworld.co.uk is important to us.
At www.thebigworld.co.uk, we recognize that privacy of your personal
information is important. Here is information on what types of personal
information we receive and collect when you use and visit
www.thebigworld.co.uk, and how we safeguard your information. We never
sell your personal information to third parties.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in
log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet
protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or
Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet
Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you
visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal
preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you
a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our
features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on www.thebigworld.co.uk to
support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as
cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also
send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense
program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser
you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash
installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New
York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing
certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads
to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick,
which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and
visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google
AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to
you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will
be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you
have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas
hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site
about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It
does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email
address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers,
bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad
serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or
third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences
in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect
how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.
This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such
as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any
advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the
next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will
be added.
