Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer, mobile or tablet device when you visit a website. Cookies are used to monitor website traffic and enhance your experience of our website (for example by keeping track of your preferences and recognizing return visitors). Cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the website can “remember” you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the website.

shaneferguson.photos uses a Cookie Preference Centre to enable you to choose what cookies are enabled or disabled. Users can also set their browsers to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies.

If you would like more information how to manage cookies, please see the section below headed, ‘How to manage and disable cookies. Visitors can use shaneferguson.photos with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled. However, if you do choose to reject some cookies, you may not be able to use or access certain areas of the website of our online or mobile services.

Improve our website: We use cookies to improve your user experience and help understand what areas of the website are most popular. We use cookies to collect information about visitors’ use of the website, for example:

- number of people who visit the website;

- date, time and duration of visits;

- number of pages viewed;

- amount of time spent on the website;

- popular sections of the website;

- connection speed;

- operating system details;

- device information; and

- IP addresses.

The information enables us to understand how the site is used and in turn helps to provide visitors with a better experience. shaneferguson.photos will not attempt to personally identify visitors from their IP addresses.

Advertisements and Promotional Information: Advertisements and promotional information are displayed on shaneferguson.photos. Subject to your device settings and consents, we may also collect information about your location and devices used. This information is anonymous and no attempt is or will be made to identify visitors.

Security: Cookies do not in any way compromise the security of your computer.

shaneferguson.photos uses the following cookie types:

Strictly Necessary

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around websites and use the websites’ features, such as accessing secure websites or secure areas of websites. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

Functionality

These cookies allow shaneferguson.photos to remember choices you make (such as your preferred language) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. Other examples include cookies that keep track of your progress when filling online application forms.

Performance

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. shaneferguson.photos uses first-party analytics cookies for this purpose.

Please take note of the following information with regard to the Google third party cookies used on our website:

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies in order to evaluate your use of shaneferguson.photos.

How Google Analytics Works

Google do not collect or store personal information. Google Analytics prohibits the tracking or collection of personal information or association of personal information with web analytics information. Google Analytics does not report the actual IP address information to Google Analytics customers.

Aside from our Cookie Prefrence Centre, most web browsers give you some control over cookies through the browser settings. However, turning cookies off may interfere with your browsing experience.

For instructions on how to manage and disable cookies, see the privacy and help documentation of your specific browser’s website. If you use more devices and/or browsers you will need to disable cookies on each device and on each browser separately.

Find out how to manage and disable cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

For more information about how to manage cookies, including opting-out of different types of cookies please visit: www.aboutcookies.org

shaneferguson.photos reserve the right to change this Cookies Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. If we make any changes, we will post those changes here and update the “Last Updated” date at the bottom of this Cookies Policy. However, if we make material changes to this Cookies Policy we will notify you by means of a prominent notice on our website.

This policy was last updated on the 4th April 2020.

Questions, comments, requests and complaints regarding this Cookies Policy are welcome. To do so, please get in touch through out Contact page.