This cookie policy explains what cookies are, how this web site uses them, how third-parties that the site owner may partner with may use cookies, and your choices regarding cookies.
In some situations described below, this web site will create cookies on your computer that are strictly necessary for the fundamental operation of the web site. Your continued use of this web site implies your acceptance of these strictly necessary cookies.
What are cookies ?
When you visit a web site using your web browser, as well as receiving the page of information you requested, your web browser may also receive a small packet of extra data from the web server. That extra data is not displayed, but your web browser stores the packet of data for future reference. The packet of extra data is called a ‘cookie’.
When you next request information from the same web site you previously visited, that packet of ‘cookie’ data is also sent to the web server together with your request. This simple mechanism allows a web server to remember various preferences that you might express when visiting the web site without the web site actually needing to store any information about you.
Because cookies may contain personal information, as an extra layer of security, web browsers will only send a cookie resident on your computer to the web site that originally created it, thus retaining confidentiality between you and the web site you originally shared information with.
How does this web site use cookies ?
When you first visit www.olditguy.uk, you will be shown a cookie acceptance banner. If you click the ‘Accept’ button, or click the ‘setting’ link then disable 3rd party cookies then click ‘Save Settings’, a cookie will be created on your computer to remember your acceptance or rejection of this site’s cookies.
Also, if you post a comment on this web site, and you check the box to cause your name and email address to be saved for when you next comment, then two cookies will be created on your computer containing the name and email address you supplied.
When you post a comment, you will also be required to tick an ‘Im am not a Robot’ checkbox. That checkbox is implemented using Google’s reCaptcha service which creates cookies that attempt to detect that a human is viewing the web site rather than a piece of software designed to distribute spam comments across the internet. It is important that web site owners use methods to combat spam on the internet, so this integration of the Google reChaptcha service is considered essential to the existence of this blog web site. (A link to Google’s privace policy for cookies that their services create can be found below).
The blogging software may also create additional cookies which are there to remember your settings as you navigate around the various pages of this web site. This cookies are benign and contain no personal information.
The above described cookies are considered strictly necessary for the operation of the web site, and you cannot disable them.
This web site participates with various other parties, and the following 3rd parties may also create cookies on your computer :
- Google Analytics which I use to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, their approximate geographic location, and the site’s most popular pages. Analytics will create non-personal cookies on your computer.
- Cookies from various advertising platforms such as Google Adsense, Amazon Affiliates etc.
The 3rd party cookies get created on your computer by the 3rd parties, and can only be shared with the 3rd party who created it. The 3rd parties each have their own privacy documents with regards to their use of cookies, and you can learn more about their policies here :
- Google : https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?gl=uk
- Amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=201890250
How can I control the cookies that get created ?
As stated earlier, you cannot switch off the cookies that are considered ‘strictly necessary’ for this site’s operation.
The ‘cookie settings’ panel will allow you to switch on and off 3rd party cookies, and this is accessible from the ‘settings’ link in the cookie acceptance banner that appeared when you first accessed the site. After that banner is dismissed, you can bring the cookie settings panel back again at any time by clicking the floating button that is located near the bottom-left corner of the web page.
Please note that if you switch off 3rd party cookies, any cookies already created by those 3rd parties will still be in your web browser, but they will no longer be passed over the net to the 3rd parties.
Most browsers provide you with the means of removing cookies as part of a cache cleaning operation. However, this is very brutal and will result in you losing all stored preferences (such as login name/passwords) for all web sites.
Google Chrome & Firefox browsers both provide an administrative tool where you may browse (and delete) cookies by individual owning web site. Many other browsers may also have this facility.
For Chrome and Firefox, firstly ensure that your web browser is displaying a page from www.olditguy.uk, then just click the ‘three little dots’ in the top-right corner of the browser, then select ‘More Tools->Developer tools’. A new panel will appear and you should select ‘Application’ on the top menu bar. On the left hand side of the panel, you will then see a section named ‘Storage’. Expand the ‘Cookies’ folder in that section and you will the server name https://www.olditguy.uk. Click on the server name and all the stored cookies being used by this web site will be displayed.
Other common browsers may have a similar facility, and a Google search will probably give you the answer you need.
Last updated : 28th May 2019
