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Cookie Policy

Updated and Effective as of April 30, 2020

Table Of Contents

  1. Use Of Cookies On The Hollywood Tribune
  2. What Are Cookies?
  3. What Kind Of Cookies Do We Use On The Hollywood Tribune?
  4. How We Use Cookies
  5. Third-Party Cookies
  6. Your Cookie Choices And How To Block Or Delete Cookies
  7. Contact Us

1. Use Of Cookies On The Hollywood Tribune

Like many other websites, we make use of cookies The Hollywood Tribune. By visiting or making use of the website, and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms and conditions of this policy. This section on Cookies forms a part of our Privacy Policy.

2. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small files, often including unique identifiers that are sent by the web-servers to web-browsers. They may be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.

Cookies may be either “session” cookies or “persistent” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

3. What Kind Of Cookies Do We Use On The Hollywood Tribune?

Type Of Cookies

Purpose

Analytics and Performance Cookies These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Website and how users use it. The information gathered by us does not identify anyone individually. The information is anonymous. It includes, but not exclusively, the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our Website, the pages that they visited on our Website, what time of day they visited our Website, whether they have visited our Website earlier, and other such information. We use this kind of information to help us operate our Website efficiently, and to gather broad demographic information about our visitors. Also, to keep a check on the activity levels on our Website. We make use of Google Analytics for this very purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is used to improve how our Website functions. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here. You can find out more about how Google protects your data here. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Website by downloading and installing the free browser plug-in available here
  Essential Cookies These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Website and to enable you to use its features. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Website and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.

 

  Functionality Cookies These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make when you use our Website, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details, remembering which polls you have voted in and in some cases, to show you poll results, and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our Website can be customised by you. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal and tailored experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Website.
 Social Media Cookies   These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Website or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this and collect information from you which may be your Personal Data.

 

Targeted and advertising cookies

 

  These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third-party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show ads which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third-party websites. These cookies also store location information, including your latitude, longitude, and GeoIP region ID, which helps us show you locale-specific news and allows our Website to function more efficiently.

4. How We Use Cookies

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you as an individual person, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. The cookies used on the website include those which are strictly necessary cookies for access and navigation, cookies that track usage (performance cookies), remember your choices (functionality cookies), and cookies that provide you with targeted content or advertising.

We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:

  • to recognize your computer when you visit the website
  • to track you as you navigate the website and to enable the use of any e-commerce facilities
  • to improve the website’s usability
  • to analyze the use of the website in the administration of the website
  • to tailor the website for you to provide you with a customised experience, including targeting advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.

5. Third-party cookies

When you use the website, you may also be sent third party cookies.

Our third-party service providers, including, but not limited to, advertisers and service providers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:

  • to track your browser across multiple websites;
  • to build a profile of your web surfing;
  • to target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you;

6. Your Cookie Choices And How To Block Or Delete Cookies.

You have the Right, as visitors of our website, to accept the cookies or refuse to do that. We have explained below how you can go about Disabling or Deleting Cookies.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. However, they are also capable of helping you block or delete the cookies sent to you by any website.

For more information about HTTP cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

However, it is worth noting that without HTTP Cookies, HTML5 or Flash Cookies, you may not be able to utilise our website properly or even view it in the way that is originally intended. Blocking all cookies from your web-browser has negative impacts such as inability to use login and search functions on the website.

Please note that ads are in no way related to cookies and rejecting our cookies does not mean you will not be shown ads on our website.

You can also find information about cookies and how they work, what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them here and here.

7. Contact Us

For any queries regarding our Cookie Policy, please contact us at: contact@thehollywoodtribune.com or here. Please make sure to include as much detail into your query as possible. Ambiguous queries, and those that we cannot understand, may not be addressed.