Cookies Policy

XL Video and 'Cookies'

Cookies are bits of website code that perform a range of functions for you, 'the user' and us, 'the website'. These functions include telling us how many people visited in a day, and which pages they visited. They also let us know when you have visited so that we only display messages, like the one that pointed you to this page, when they’re necessary.

You can find a technical explanation of cookies from Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

We take your privacy seriously. Like almost all websites, we use cookies to perform a number of functions like the examples above. None of these share any personal information about you. Our cookie list looks like this;

1. Our 'session' cookie, [called PHPSESSID].
This remembers your 'session' which means your language and location preference.

THIS DATA IS ANONYMOUS, AND WE DON'T SHARE ANY ELEMENT OF IT WITH THIRD PARTIES

2. Our 'analytics' cookies from Google Analytics [called _utma, _utmb, _utmc, & _utmz].
These are industry standard cookies which allow us to see how people are using the site. Our aim is to understand which sections of the site you find most useful and to keep the content up to date.

THIS DATA IS ANONYMOUS, ONLY ACCESSIBLE SECURELY TO US THROUGH THE 'GOOGLE ANALYTICS' DASHBOARD AND WE DON'T SHARE ANY ELEMENT OF IT WITH THIRD PARTIES

3. Social cookies from addthis.com.
When you choose to share one of our news stories, via sites like Facebook or Twitter, there are a number of cookies that let you do this [called atuvc]. If you are logged into any of these sites, the 'addthis' cookies keep you logged in, and help you share the content. The 'addthis' privacy policy is here: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/

The cookies vary depending on which sharing methods or social networks that you use but they don't store personal data. For example an 'addthis' cookie would collect data that you had 'Shared' a story on Facebook, but it doesn't know who you are, and can't sell that data or use it commercially.

THIS DATA IS ANONYMOUS, ACCESSIBLE SECURELY TO ADDTHIS.COM AND WE DON'T SHARE ANY ELEMENT OF IT WITH ANY THIRD PARTIES

A new law has come into effect that means we need to communicate clearly to you about how we use cookies and what they are. Hopefully we have done that.

That's relatively simple to do. Each web browser differs slightly in how you can edit your privacy settings or delete cookies. This web page has simple guides on how to do this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/242939/how_to_delete_cookies.html

If you choose to remove the cookies, you may find that your browsing experience will be less efficient as you may have to re-login to services like social media each time you visit.

We hope this has helped to explain how we use cookies, but if you have more questions, please contact us using our Contact page here: http://www.xlvideo.tv/contact/