Cookie Policy
Cookies and how they benefit you:
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Theatr Clwyd uses cookies for three main purposes:
- To ensure the website works, in particular online booking
- To monitor website performance and help us make improvements in the future
- To tailor our marketing and use tools such as google adwords to communicate more effectively through web advertising.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
| Cookie | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Google Analytics | This monitors how people use our site – for example the browser they use and the pages they visit. It’s used to assess our website’s performance and to help us plan improvements. |
| DoubleClick | You may notice that sometimes after visiting our site you see increased numbers of adverts from us. This is because we pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by this cookie. We use these adverts to encourage you to come back to our site. Don’t worry we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. |
| This communicates with facebook activity on our website. In a similar way to DoubleClick it allows us to reduce our costs (and keep our prices low) by using digital adverts to encourage you to visit us. Don’t worry we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. | |
| Session | This cookie is a transient cookie (it is erased when you end you close the browser). It acts as a small amount of memory to remember what you’ve done on past pages. For example if you put tickets in a basket this data might be recalled so if you look at a different item the tickets are still there. |
| tickets.theatrclwyd.com | This cookie is integral to online booking on our website. Without this cookie our box office system online will not function. However you can also book by phone or in person at our box office. |
| .spektrix.com | This cookie is integral to online booking on our website. Without this cookie our box office system online will not function. However you can also book by phone or in person at our box office. |
Our Own Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Making our shopping basket and checkout work
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work to accepted privacy standards such as http://www.youronlinechoices.c.../uk/iab-good-practice-principles" class="redactor-autoparser-object">http://www.youronlinechoices.c... can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.c... . You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.c.../uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn’t as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see adverts, just simply that they won’t be tailored to you any longer.
We use:
DoubleClick – Privacy Policy owned by Google
Remarketing Cookies
You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a so called “remarketing cookie” during your visit. We use these adverts to offer special offers etc to encourage you to come back to our site. Don’t worry we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. You can opt out of these cookies at anytime as explained above.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage... may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
Thank you
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing (www.attacat.co.uk), a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.