1. Cookies

   Cookies are small text files that are saved on your device when you visit a website or use an app. They help websites and apps remember things about you, such as your settings, login status, or what you’ve added to a shopping basket. We use cookies to make our services work, keep them secure, improve how they perform, understand how people use them, and (with your consent) show you personalised content and advertising.

   The types of information we may store in cookies include:

   • Your preferences for how a site or app looks or works (for example, language or layout)
   • Your choices about how your information is used (such as your privacy settings)
   • Information needed to deliver the service (for example, your location in a weather app)
   • Details that help us monitor and improve performance (like how quickly pages load)
   • Unique identifiers that help us recognise your browser or device
   • Encrypted or one-way cryptographic hashes of personal information

2. Web storage

   Web storage is a type of technology that allows websites and apps to store information directly in your browser. It works in a similar way to cookies but can hold more data and store it in a more structured format.

   We use web storage to store the same types of information as we do with cookies. This helps us remember your preferences and settings, and improve how our services work for you.

3. Advertising identifiers

   Advertising identifiers uniquely identify your mobile devices and connected TVs. We use them to provide and measure personalised ads.

   Examples of advertising identifiers include:

   • Advertising identifiers on Android devices
   • Identifier for advertisers (IDFA) on iOS devices
   • Microsoft's advertising identifiers on devices running Windows

4. Tracking pixels and URL parameters

   Tracking pixels and URL parameters are tools that help us understand how people interact with content, features, and advertising on our sites and apps.

   Tracking pixels are tiny, invisible images that load in the background when content or ads are shown. When activated, they can send back information about things like whether a page or ad was viewed and how someone interacted with it.

   URL parameters are bits of information added to web links. They help us understand what happens after someone clicks a link, for example, whether they visited a particular page or used a feature on our site.

   These tools may collect information such as:

   • When and where content or ads were shown
   • The device or browser used to view the them
   • The IP address, which may indicate an approximate location
   • Actions taken afterwards, such as clicks or other interactions
   • Identifiers that help us measure usage and improve our services

   We use this information to understand what works well, make improvements, and show content and ads that are more relevant to you.

5. Persistent identifiers

   Persistent identifiers are long-lasting codes that help us recognise your browser or device over time. They are created from information that usually doesn’t change, such as an email address or phone number, or from hashed versions of that information. Hashing is a secure process that turns the original information into a pseudonymous identifier, which cannot easily be linked back to you.

   We may use persistent identifiers to:

   • Help personalise your experience across our sites and apps
   • Understand how people use our services across different browsers or devices
   • Support features like remembering that you’re signed in or keeping your settings consistent

   For example, a hashed version of your email address may help us recognise that it’s you using different devices, without revealing your actual email address.

   These identifiers are used in line with applicable privacy laws and are not used to directly identify you. They are designed to support the functionality of our services while respecting your privacy.

6. IP addresses

   An IP address is a numerical label assigned to your device when you connect to the internet. It helps websites and apps communicate with your device and deliver content or services correctly.

   We may use IP addresses to:

   • Detect and prevent fraud or misuse of our services
   • Estimate your general location to show local content, such as news or weather, and select relevant advertising
   • Limit how often certain content or ads are shown
   • Support service features that work across shared connections, like in a household
   • Supporting household-level ad targeting

   While an IP address does not directly identify you, it may be treated as personal data under privacy laws because it can be linked to your activity or location.

1. Providing our consumer services

   We use cookies and similar technologies to help deliver the services you use and ensure they function properly. This includes using them to:

   • Remember you when you are signed in
   • Monitor system and network performance
   • Identify your legal jurisdiction and apply your privacy choices
   • Provide requested features and content

   These cookies are strictly necessary for our services to work as expected and cannot be turned off using your privacy controls.

2. Authentication, security, and preventing abuse

   We use cookies and similar technologies to help keep your account and our services secure. This includes using them to:

   • Authenticate you when you sign in
   • Maintain the security of your account and our services
   • Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and other harmful activity

   These cookies are strictly necessary for our services to function securely and cannot be turned off using your privacy controls.

3. Personalising content on our consumer services

   If we have your consent, we use cookies and similar technologies to personalise the content you see on our sites and apps. This includes:

   • Creating a profile of your interests based on your activity to show you content that is more relevant to you
   • Selecting and showing content that is more relevant to you
   • Measuring how you interact with content, such as what you read or watch

   You can manage or withdraw your consent at any time using your privacy controls.

4. Advertising on our consumer services

   If we have your consent, we use cookies and similar technologies to support advertising on our sites and apps. This includes:

   • Creating a profile of your interests based on your activity to show you ads that are more relevant to you
   • Selecting and showing ads that are more relevant to you
   • Matching cookies, device identifiers, advertising identifiers and persistent identifiers with those used by our advertising partners
   • Measuring how you engage with ads, including views and clicks
   • Limiting how often you see the same ad
   • Detecting and preventing advertising fraud

   You can manage or withdraw your consent at any time using your privacy controls. If you do not give your consent, you will still see ads on our sites and apps, but we will not personalise them or use cookies to provide them.

5. Cookies we use for measurement on our consumer services

   We use cookies and similar technologies to create insights which help us to:

   • Measure and understand how our consumer services are working and how they are being used
   • Create more relevant content, services and features for our consumer services
   • Compile aggregate statistics on the use of our consumer services and create general website metrics
   • Monitor availability, stability and technical performance

   These cookies are strictly necessary to operate and maintain our services and cannot be turned off using your privacy controls.

6. Cookies we use for analytics on our consumer services

   If we have your consent, we use cookies and similar technologies to perform analytics on how our services are used.

   We use these technologies to:

   • Analyse your interactions with our consumer services to understand how our services are performing
   • Track how users move through pages and features
   • Identify common behaviours and popular content
   • Assess how changes to our services affect engagement
   • Analyse trends across different user groups, devices, or locations

   To perform this analytics, we may use information such as device details, browsing activity, location (if available), account information (if you are signed in), and other information linked to your use of our services.

   You can manage or withdraw your consent at any time using your privacy controls.

You can manage or withdraw your consent for these partners to use cookies and similar technologies at any time using your privacy controls. You can also view the list of third parties we work with, which includes content and social-media partners and those participating in the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework. This list includes links to each partner’s privacy policy, where you can learn more about how they use your personal information.

1. Using the controls we provide

   When you use our services, we give you control over whether we and our partners can use cookies and similar technologies to process your personal information for certain purposes.

   You can withdraw your consent through your privacy controls by selecting the brand you want to manage settings for. If you have an account with that brand, click ‘Sign In’ in the top right-hand corner to make sure your choices are saved to your account.

2. Using the controls provided by your device or browser

   Your browser and device offer settings that allow you to manage cookies and other tracking technologies. These settings may help limit some tracking, but they may not block all technologies, such as tracking pixels, URL parameters, persistent identifiers, or IP addresses. For more comprehensive control, we recommend the controls we provide to you in your privacy controls.

   On mobile devices (phones and tablets)

   Your mobile device’s operating system may allow you to control how your device’s advertising identifiers are used for personalised advertising:

   • iOS 16 and above: Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking > Allow Apps to Request to Track
   • Android devices: Go to Settings > Google services > Ads > Opt out of Ads Personalisation

   Please consult your device manufacturer’s support documentation for the latest guidance.

   On your laptop or desktop

   You can configure your browser to manage cookie usage:

   • Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain services, such as the ability to stay signed in.

   • To learn how to delete cookies:
     • Delete cookies in desktop browsers
     • Delete cookies in mobile browsers

   Clearing browser cookies or history

   Clearing your browser’s cookies and cache removes our cookies, but:

   • It will not stop tracking methods that do not rely on storing data on your device.
   • It does not prevent cookies from being set again in future visits.

   Use the site or app’s privacy controls to make persistent privacy choices.

   Using ad and cookie blockers

   Blocking cookies via browser settings, extensions, or plug-ins may interfere with how your privacy choices are stored and remembered:

   • Many websites store consent preferences in cookies.
   • If cookies are blocked or cleared, your preferences may be lost and need to be set again.

   Smart or connected devices

   Smart TVs and other connected devices may have their own privacy settings:

   • Where supported, use the device settings to manage advertising preferences.
   • If no settings are available or they are not compatible with our technologies, we rely on the choices made via your privacy controls only if we can associate your choice with the device you are using. Where possible please sign in with your account to ensure your choices are respected.

1. Cookies used for providing our consumer services

   These cookies are strictly necessary and cannot be controlled.

   Cookie name	How long they last
   _yb	Up to 12 months
   A1	Up to 12 months
   A1S	Until the end of the browser session
   A3	Up to 12 months
   apeaf	Up to 12 months
   autorf	Up to 12 months
   B	Up to 12 months
   CFC	Up to 12 months
   cmp	Up to 12 months
   DNR	Up to 12 months
   EuConsent	Up to 1 day
   F	Up to 12 months
   favftux	Until the end of the browser session
   FS	Up to 12 months
   gdprlh	Until the end of the browser session
   gdprs	Until the end of the browser session
   GUC	Up to 12 months
   GUCS	Until the end of the browser session
   idps	Until the end of the browser session
   isNewsLetterEnable	Up to 3 days
   K	Until the end of the browser session
   lang	Up to 15 minutes
   listOfSel	Until the end of the browser session
   mode	Until the end of the browser session
   OMPC	Until the end of the browser session
   OOC	Up to 12 months
   PH	Up to 12 months
   PoliciesYahooCom	Until the end of the browser session
   PRF	Up to 24 months
   RRC	Up to 1 minute
   rxx	Up to 12 months
   sB	Up to 12 months
   sBS	Up to 6 months
   show_savebk	Until the end of the browser session
   show_savefdr	Until the end of the browser session
   SPTB	Up to 31 days
   sS	Up to 12 months
   TAS	Up to 12 months
   thamba	Up to 7 days
   token_adap_tv	Up to 24 months
   token_adaptv_advertising_com	Up to 24 months
   token_adtech_de	Up to 24 months
   token_adtechjp_com	Up to 24 months
   token_adtechus_com	Up to 24 months
   token_advertising_com	Up to 24 months
   token_nexage_com	Up to 24 months
   token_tacoda_at_atwola_com	Up to 24 months
   token_yahoo_com	Up to 24 months
   TRUST_TOKEN	Up to 24 months
   ucs	Up to 12 months
   uvf	Until the end of the browser session
   uvts	Up to 12 months
   vSP	Up to 30 days
   Waldo	Up to 7 days
   weathergeo	Up to 12 months
   wmdata	Until the end of the browser session
   WSCliSettings	Up to 12 months
   WV	Up to 12 months
   YHSDOM	Up to 1 day
   yisn	Up to 30 days
   YM.CLIENT.PARAMS	Up to 30 days
   YM.NODIN.PARAMS	Up to 2 days
   YM.NODIN.XOBNI	Up to 1 day
   YM.OR.2	Up to 14 days
   YM.SSRBDGT	Up to 1 minute
   YM.TZ	Up to 1 day
   yspl	Up to 1 month

2. Cookies used for authentication, security, and preventing abuse

   These cookies are strictly necessary and cannot be controlled.

   Cookie name	How long they last
   __cf_bm	Up to 30 minutes
   A1	Up to 12 months
   A1S	Until the end of the browser session
   AS	Until the end of the browser session
   B	Up to 12 months
   csrf	Until the end of the browser session
   F	Up to 12 months
   FS	Up to 12 months
   GUCS	Until the end of the browser session
   idps	Until the end of the browser session
   K	Until the end of the browser session
   OTH	Up to 12 months
   OTHN	Until the end of the browser session
   OTHP	Up to 12 months
   T	Up to 12 months
   Y	Up to 12 months

3. Cookies used for personalising content on our consumer services

   These cookies are only used with your consent. You can give or withdraw your consent at any time through your privacy controls.

   Cookie name	How long they last
   A3	Up to 12 months
   apear	Up to 10 days
   B	Up to 12 months
   ddfq	Up to 14 days
   DSS	Up to 12 months
   FPNC	Up to 30 days
   HNEL	Up to 7 days
   lkl	Up to 12 months
   stateful	Up to 7 days
   weather_location	Up to 12 months

4. Cookies used for advertising on our consumer services

   These cookies are only used with your consent. You can give or withdraw your consent at any time through your privacy controls.

   Cookie name	How long they last
   _gcl_aw	Up to 90 days
   _uetsid	Up to 1 day
   _uetvid	Up to 13 months
   A3	Up to 12 months
   B	Up to 12 months
   CRZY	Up to 48 hours
   HP	Up to 48 hours
   IDSYNC	Up to 12 months
   lkl	Up to 12 months
   maex	Up to 6 months
   PROMO	Up to 12 months
   SF	Up to 13 months
   trc_cookie_storage	Up to 12 months
   x_ms	Up to 1 month
   ymuid	Up to 12 months

5. Cookies used for measurement on our consumer services

   These cookies are strictly necessary and cannot be controlled.

   Cookie name	How long they last
   A1	Up to 12 months
   A1S	Until the end of the browser session
   B	Up to 12 months
   rxx	Up to 12 months
   WV	Up to 12 months

6. Cookies from advertising partners on our consumer services

   These cookies are only used with your consent. You can give or withdraw your consent at any time through your privacy controls.

   Click here for a list of the cookies used by advertising partners on our consumer services.