Cookie policy.
This cookie policy relates to the following website: giggle.co.uk
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your browser, computer or mobile device (a “Device”) that uniquely identify your browser or Device.
What are cookies used for?
Cookies allow a site or services to know if your Device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
What type of cookies does Giggle use?
There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Functionality,” “Tracking” and “Targeting & Advertising.” Giggle routinely uses all four categories of cookies on our website. You can find out more about each cookie category below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our website and to enable you to use certain features of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services.
Without these cookies, we cannot provide you with certain services on our website.
How long will cookies stay on my Device?
The length of time a cookie will stay on your Device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your Device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your Device until they expire or are deleted.
First and third party cookies
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Giggle, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your Device through our services. Third-party cookies may be placed on your Device by someone providing a service for Giggle, for example to help us understand how our service is being used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your Device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet. These third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies. The following third parties may use cookies, over which we have no control:
Facebook - https://en-gb.facebook.com/policy/cookies/
Twitter - https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies
Google - https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-uk
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table#thirdparty
How to control cookies
If you would rather we do not use cookies when you visit us, please configure your specific browser settings to reject cookies.
For help locating cookies on your device, visit your browser’s documentation:
Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Edge
Internet Explorer
Note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our services and other parts of our services may not work properly. You can find out more information cookie settings at third-party information sites, such as www.allaboutcookies.org
To opt-out of third-party cookies, please utilise the appropriate option(s) below:
To opt-out of ad targeting cookies set by Google and Doubleclick on our Site, click here: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads?hl=en
In order to control the collection of data for analytical purposes by Google Analytics, you may want to visit the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
If you are on the web, you can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s consumer choice tool at optout.aboutads.info to opt-out of seeing interest-based advertising from Twitter in your current browser.
Contact Details
If you have any queries about how we use cookies, contact us using the following details:
Email: info@giggle.co.uk
Address: 2nd Floor, 124 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5HF
Telephone: 0141 674 2156
| Vendor | Cookie Domain | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration for which cookie stored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook.com | _fbp | This cookie name is associated with Facebook. It helps Giggle identify when you have responded to a Giggle advert on Facebook. This data is also used to assess the overall performance of our advertising campaigns. | 3 months |
Targeting and Advertising Cookies
Giggle Broadband Limited, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your Device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your Device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than Giggle. This information may be shared with organizations outside Giggle, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate usage statistics and aggregate testing for our services.
| Vendor | Cookie Domain | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration for which cookie stored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | giggle.co.uk | _ga _ga_# _gid |
These cookie names are associated with Google (Analytics). The data collected is used to provide reports on the performance of the Giggle website and how visitors interact with it – which helps us provide you with more relevant content and a better experience. | 24 months |
| Squarespace | giggle.co.uk | ss_cvr | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site. | 24 months |
| Squarespace | giggle.co.uk | ss_cvt | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site. | 30 mins |
Analytical or Performance Cookies
These cookies are used to collect information to analyse the traffic to our website and how visitors are using our website. For example, these cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the website or the pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve our website site for you. The information collected through these analytical and performance cookies do not identify any individual visitor.
| Vendor | Cookie Domain | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration for which cookie stored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Functional Cookies
These cookies are used to provide you with a more personalised experience on our website and to remember choices you make when you use our website.For example, we may use functionality cookies to remember your language preferences or remember your login details.
| Vendor | Cookie Domain | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration for which cookie stored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squarespace | giggle.co.uk | Crumb | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. | Session |