How we collect your personal information using cookies
A cookie is a tiny text file that contains some information that may be passed back and forth between your browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, or Safari) and a computer running a website (typically the site that set the cookie). It does not contain any code and cannot do anything. Most websites set them and many cannot function properly without them. Typically they just contain an identifier so that the server knows that it has seen this visitor before. This means, for example, that someone can log in to a website and stay logged in, they can set their preferences or not be repeatedly shown the same information. We use cookies online to enable our website to function.
Cookies are usually set when you visit a particular page on the arcticantarcticfilm.com / lissross.com website, or if you take a particular action, such as filling in an online form.
The information we collect via cookies consists usually of things like IP addresses, sites visited and actions taken. We don’t use them to identify you by name, or record things like email addresses or bank details
The arcticantarcticfilm.com / lissross.com websites also contains third party cookies set by other organisations.
How we use information about you collected by cookies
Art and Life Fusion / Liss Ross set cookies on the arcticantarcticfilm.com / lissross.com websites to enable it to carry out certain functions, such as remember the information you have entered on an online form, or to ‘save’ things in your basket in the online shop.
We also use cookies to help us understand visitors to the arcticantarcticfilm.com / lissross.com websites – what other sites they have visited and whether they responded to any Art and Life Fusion / Liss Ross online advertising.
How long we keep information collected via cookies
Cookies can be set for the duration of your visit to the website or for up to two years. The information collected is usually kept for two years.
Further information about how your data is collected online via cookies and other online markers, together with a list of cookies used on the arcticantarcticfilm.com / lissross.com website, can be found in our Cookie Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files which help to make websites simpler to use. They can help by remembering information you have already entered, or storing your preferences for a particular page.
They enhance your user experience by improving the interaction between you and the site. Without cookies, it would not be possible to use a shopping cart facility on a website or to remain logged in on different pages.
Cookies cannot harm your computer as they are pieces of text, not computer programs.
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Essential or ‘Strictly Necessary’ Cookies
These are cookies which are essential for the running of our websites. Without these cookies, parts of our websites would not function. These cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.
Anonymous analytics cookies
The analytics cookies are those for Google Analytics, which measure how people are using the site to make sure it meets their needs and performs well. The cookies cannot identify you personally and store no personal data. They cannot be used or altered by any other domain as they are First Party cookies. Unless you are signed in to the website, we cannot use these cookies to identify individuals. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as your username and email address.
You can find out more about the cookies set by Google Analytics in Google’s resources .
Registration cookies
When you register, we generate cookies that let us know whether you are signed in or not.
Our server use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username.
If you have not selected ‘keep me signed in’, your cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer.
While you are signed into either of the sites, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen.
Other third party cookies
On some pages of our website, other organisations may also set their own anonymous cookies. They do this to track the success of their application, or to customise the application for you. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies, nor can the other organisation access the data in cookies we use on our website.
For example, when you share an article using a social-media sharing button (for example, Facebook), the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this.
Further information
More detail on how businesses use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org
You can manage and delete these files yourself: to find out how to do this and for more information about cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org .
Policy Updates
This policy was agreed on 14 June 2018