How do we use cookies?

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.  

What are cookies and how do they work?

Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that and your help screen or manual will tell you how to do this. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of our site if you do so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they do identify a user's computer, cookies do not personally identify users and passwords and credit card information are not stored in cookies.  

What sort of cookies do we use?

We use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and under our terms with you. These include cookies which record user selected settings for privacy preferences, as well as those which maintain user sessions within a browser. These cookies do not store any personal information.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us for our legitimate purposes to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website; for example, to retain user-selected filter and sort settings across search results.
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. These include Third Party cookies associated with specific plugins enabled on our websites (see 'Social media platforms' below).

We set our own cookies on the site and we also use third party cookies, like Google Analytics.

Where can you find more information about the cookies that we use?

Please note that the Third Party targeting cookies listed on this page may only apply to specific platforms, depending on the plugins enabled on each. Please refer to the Preferences Centre in the OneTrust cookie banner for platform-specific information.

When do our cookies expire?

Except for essential and third party cookies, all cookies used on our site will expire after between 1 hour and 365 days.

How do you disable cookies?

The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable, but in general the website may not operate fully if cookies are switched off. If you disable all cookies, certain personalisation and search filter functions may not be applicable for the duration of that session. See below for details of how to use common types of browser to disable cookies.

Users are able to set their cookie preferences via the permissions banner which appears at the beginning of each new session; alternatively, instructions for disabling cookies via your chosen web browsers are given below.

Disabling cookies in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer:

1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”
2. Click on the “privacy” tab
3. Select the setting the appropriate setting

Disabling cookies in Google Chrome

Google Chrome:

1. Choose Settings> Advanced
2. Under "Privacy and security," click “Content settings”
3. Click “Cookies”

Disabling cookies in Safari

Safari:

1. Choose Preferences > Privacy
2. Click on “Remove all Website Data”

Disabling cookies in Firefox

Firefox:

1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Options”
2. Click on the icon “privacy”
3. Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options

Disabling cookies in Opera

Opera 6.0 and subsequent:

1. Choose the menu Files”> “Preferences”
2. Privacy

Social media platforms

If you 'share' our websites content on social networks, such as Instagram and Twitter, you may be sent cookies from the social network. We do not control the setting of these cookies, so please check the social network platforms for information on how to manage them.

Other help

Where you have not set your permissions, we may also separately prompt you regarding our use of cookies on the site.

For third party cookies that track activity in connection with targeting advertising, you can currently opt-out of these cookies on the Digital Advertising Alliance’s consumer choice page (http://optout.aboutads.info) or the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer choice page (http://optout.networkadvertising.org).

Other tools offered by third parties can help you see and manage cookies. More information about cookies and cookie management can be found on www.allaboutcookies.org and www.aboutcookies.org.

How to get help

If you would like further information about our use of cookies, please contact us:

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
50 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3DP
United Kingdom
Company Number 01984336
ICO Registration Number Z7552956
Contact: Data Protection Officer
Email: dataprotection@bloomsbury.com