Cookie Policy
Please Read our Cookie Policy
What are Cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files that are placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and help provide you with the best experience we can. They are used by most websites to help personalise your web experience. Some features will not function if you do not allow cookies.
Our cookies help us to:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
Granting us permission to use cookies:
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can remove them, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
How you can control cookies:
1. Browser controls
Most modern browsers offer you ways to control or block cookies. These browser controls will usually be found in the “options’ or “preferences” menu.
For more information about cookies, please see allaboutcookies.org.
2. Ad cookies and targeting
You can find more information or turn off targeting by member companies at YourOnlineChoices UK www.youronlinechoices.com/uk.
About this policy
If our use of cookies changes, we will post the changes to this policy. Please check frequently as online data collection practices and our use of them continue to evolve.
This version of the privacy policy is effective as of 1st November 2021.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential in helping you to move around our websites and use their features, such as accessing secure areas of the website and shopping. These cookies don't gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.
We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:
- Remember things like information you've entered on order forms when you navigate to different pages in a single web browser session
- Remember the goods and services you ordered when you get to the checkout page
- Identifying you as being signed in and keeping you logged in throughout your visit so that you don't need to sign in each and every time you visit.
Using our site indicates that you accept the use of 'Strictly Necessary' cookies. Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as ’Strictly Necessary’:
Host: thebookseller.com
Cookie names: JSESSIONID
Purpose: To keep track of user sessions on the site and identify your user session.
Host: thebookseller.com
Cookie name: AFFINO_x, AFFINO_xHTTPS, AFFINOLIVE_x
Purpose: If we are hosting your sites the relevant option is ticked. Each user profile has a number replacing x.
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow websites and applications to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for selling advertising or remembering where you've been on the internet, but do help with serving advertising.
Some examples of how we do this include:
- Remembering your preferences and settings.
- Show you when you're logged in to the website
- Supporting social media components, like Facebook or Twitter (where a website uses a plugin from these third party platforms, for example).
- Remembering if you've been to the site before so that messages intended for first-time users are not displayed to you.
- Remembering your search settings
- Making our shopping basket and checkout work
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as 'Functional’:
Host: thebookseller.com
Cookie names (purposes): RVP (As a guest user we store the last 10 products you viewed); accounts_tab_active (Store the state of the Affino accounts tab (open or closed)); contacts_tab_active (Store the state of the Affino contacts tab (open or closed)) contactlist_tab_active (Store the state of the Affino contact list tab (open or closed)); Affino_Control (Stores the layout of the Affino control panel (left or right)); Affino_BrowserMode (Set your browser to iPad and you’ll be able to see that browser mode); LiveEditSwitch (Affino functionality remembers your settings if live edit switch is on/off); Affino_ControlWideScreen (Affino functionality remembers your settings if you selected this option); Affino_ControlTopNav (Affino functionality remembers your settings if you selected this option); Affino_x_CartID (Holds the users shopping cart ID); Affino_CookiePolicy (Stores the Cookie Policy status); AFFINO_CONTROLHELP (control side help show/hide option); ShowGuideLine (show / hide help on live editor option); FriendInvite (connects contacts on friend requets); PreCache & PreCacheCheck (caching check cookies); Affino_Visitor (identifies daily visits); AFFINO_TC (security tracking); AFFINO_MC & AFFINO_MCA (metering tracking cookies); OrderReferer (url of the order referrer); OnPageFeedbackxyz (feedback cookie where x is channel code, y is section code and z id item code); AFFINO_XLOGIN_CHECKED (cross domain login cookie)
Performance Cookies (analytical)
'Performance' cookies collect information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies don't collect any information that could identify you - all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how our website works.
Some examples of how we do this include:
- Provide statistics on how our website is used
- See how effective our adverts are (we don't use this information to target adverts to you when you visit other websites)
- Provide feedback to partners that one of our visitors also visited their website. This can include details of any products bought. This lets our partners improve their website, but we don't allow our partners to reuse this information for further advertising
- Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur
Accepting these cookies is strongly recommended. If you prevent them, we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as ’Performance’:
Hosts: audit.affino.com
Cookie names: cookie.ao3pcba
Purpose: Identify anonymously whether or not users are blocking third party cookies and the platform they are using. No personal information is captured and the cookie only has a 24 hour lifespan.
We also sometimes use Hotjar which will drop a cookie too. This allows us to see how users interact with our websites so we can optimise it.
Google Analytics is on our sites and will also drop a cookie. This does not give us any personally identifiable information but does allows us to optimise the website for your use.
Targeting Cookies (3rd party)
'Targeting' cookies are linked to services provided by third parties, such as 'Like' buttons and 'Share' buttons. The third party provides these services in return for recognising that you have visited our website.
An example of this includes:
- Link to social networks like Facebook, who may subsequently use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites
We use third party services provided by third parties like YouTube who may subsequently use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites
You can control whether or not these cookies are used, but preventing them may stop us from offering you some services. All of these cookies are managed by third parties, and you may alternatively use the third parties' own tools to prevent these cookies.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as 'Targeting’:
Host: youtube.com
Cookie name: PREF, use_hitbox, PRVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEEF
Purpose: When you view a web page on your site with an embedded YouTube video, YouTube creates these cookies.
Host: twitter.com
Cookie name: personalization_id
Purpose: When you view a web page on your site with an embedded Twitter card, Twitter creates this cookie.
We also use cookies for Google and Facebook. These allow us to maximise site subscriptions to ensure the long term health of The Bookseller. For more information about the cookies for Google services that are used on this site, check out the Google Privacy & Terms site.
