INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Our website (www.portfairyfolkfestival.com) uses cookies and other similar technologies (as described below) to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, allows us to improve our website and provide you with tailored content and advertising.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. You can find more information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Strictly Necessary:
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to browse our website and use its features. The information collected by these cookies relate to the operation of our website, for example website scripting language and security tokens to maintain secure areas of our website.

Performance Analytics:
These cookies collect anonymous information about how you use our website, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages, and how you arrived at our website. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our website and never to identify you. These cookies are sometimes placed by third-party providers of web traffic analysis services, such as Google Analytics.

Functionality:
These cookies remember choices you make, for example the country you visit our website from, your language and any changes you have made to text size or other parts of web pages that you can customise, in order to improve your experience of our website and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting or Advertising:
These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our website with social media organisations such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the privacy policies of these organisations for how their cookies work.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

We may use cookies:

To collect anonymised data on users behaviour on the website. We may also capture what website a user has come from and what site they go to and also some demographic data (e.g. the user’s location) and we may use that data to analyse user behaviour across multiple websites;

To categorise pools of users (on an anonymised basis) based on demographic and/or behavioural data and use this to, target our advertising to cookie-ed users on third party websites and use that data to allow targeted third party advertising to categorised cookie-ed users either in respect of advertising placement Port Fairy Folk Festival has bought/placed and targeted to users on behalf of third parties or in respect of advertising bought/placed by third parties and targeted to cookie pools Port Fairy Folk Festival has “sold” to these third parties.

Some of our websites may use Google AdSense to publish advertisements. When you view or click on an advert a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other websites.

You may opt-out of the use of this cookie by visiting Google’s Advertising and Privacy page: www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Our websites may use specific Google Analytics features including remarketing (advertising our products to you after you have visited our Sites); demographics and interest reporting (obtaining general demographic and interest information from Google); and impression reporting (information on the impact of our advertisements). You may opt out of Google Analytics.

Most internet browsers are automatically set up to accept cookies. However, if you want to refuse or delete any cookies (or similar technologies), please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies. Please note you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of our website, including certain personalised features, if you delete or disable cookies.

For more information on managing cookies, please go to www.allaboputcookies.org, or visit www.youronlinechoices.eu, which has further information about behavioural advertising and online privacy.

WEB BEACONS

We, or our third party partners, may employ a software technology called web beacons (also known as web bugs, clear gifs or pixels) which helps us understand what content is effective, for example by counting the number of users who have visited these pages. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to let us know when content is viewed. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on web pages. We, or our third party partners, may tie the information gathered by web beacons to the other information we collect about you.