Cookies

Providing a better user experience (not expanding your waistline)

Cookies

Providing a better user experience (not expanding your waistline)

Introduction

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your machine to help provide a better user experience. If your web browser has been configured to accept them, we take this – and your continued use of our website – to mean that you are happy for this to happen. You may, prefer to disable them on our website. The most effective way to do this is in your browser. Doing so, however, may mean that our website will not function as you expect.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to:

  • Make our website function properly and continually improve it
  • Improve the speed and security of our website
  • Analyse user behaviour and page views etc. through Google Analytics (we do this anonymously)
  • Allow you to share relevant pages of our website on social networks

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect personally identifiable or sensitive information without your permission
  • Pass personally identifiable information to advertising networks or third parties

Types of cookies we use

Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customised ads.

Analytics
These help us to monitor user behaviour on our website – things like page views, how long people spend on our website and the technology (device and platform) they use to access it. We use Google Analytics to do this and it will set a cookie on your browser to gather information. We do this anonymously and do not collect personally identifiable information in the process.

First party cookies
These are set by our website. They can only be read by our website.

Functional cookies
These help us to make your visits to our website more personal. For example, they can be used to remember if you’ve visited our website before so that you don’t see messages that are meant for new visitors.

Necessary cookies
These are the ones that allow you to use our website properly. Some essential features on our website will not work without these cookies.

Performance cookies
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

Session cookies
These only last as long as you use our website. They will disappear from your computer or device when you close your web browser.

Third party cookies
These are set by someone other than us. Our HYPE TV page, for example, contains content from YouTube, which will set its own cookies. Also, if you share one of our web pages via social media e.g. Facebook or Twitter, they may set a cookie on your browser. We have no control over third party cookies but you can disable them in your browser. Doing so, however, may affect the functionality of our website.

More information about your privacy

Read about our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.