Privacy / Cookies / Advertising

Your Information

We do not directly collect or store personal information about you during your visit, unless you place an order for something from our on-line shop and require this information for shipping / invoicing. We do not subsequently sell this information to any third party.

We do, however, use third-party advertising companies to help pay for the running costs of the site. These companies may employ a degree of user tracking, as detailed below.

Cookies / Advertising

Thousands of websites, including this one, use third parties to provide their advertising. The providers used on this site are Google Adsense and Criteo. Follow the link for more information on Criteo’s Privacy Policy.

Wherever such adverts are displayed, advertisers may attempt to place cookies (small data files) on users’ computers to help target and tailor its advertising. It is likely you have already visited many websites that feature such adverts, and that cookies have already been placed on your device. If this is the first site featuring adverts that you have visited, new cookies may be created on your device as a result of your visit.

By using cookies and user tracking, advertisers are able to offer adverts that are more relevant and more interesting to individual users. However, you are able to control what you share with advertisers and we encourage you to:

• Make use of the ‘AdChoices’ icon displayed in the corner of every advert, to review or change your privacy settings.
• Find out about cookies and how you can control them by visiting: www.aboutcookies.org.

Google Adsense

Google’s own information about Adsense and user privacy is as follows:

Third-party advertising companies are used to serve ads when you visit area-codes.org.uk.

These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

To opt-out of the Google DART cookie which is used to tailor advertising to your interest on this and other sites, visit Google’s privacy centre.