Cookies Policy
Kids!
This page explains our cookies policy. Cookies are small text files that we send to your computer or mobile phone to make our websites work better, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. We hope this okay but if not, you can ask a parent or guardian to help you turn off cookies using our Civic Cookie Control tool.
Grown-ups
What are cookies?
When you visit our website (www.natgeokids.com) we may send your browser a cookie. A cookie is a small file placed on your computer or mobile phone’s browser that helps us recognise you when you return to our website and can tell us whether or not you’ve visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we may generate new ones. Cookies contain information which is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
The information we collect allows us to better tailor our web experience to the interests of our visitors. This information may be used in aggregate form by Creature Media to assess general user interest in our site and the content on it. No personally identifying information is included in this type of reporting.
How to disable cookies
Our GDPR-compliant Cookie Control tool by Civic allows you to easily disable our cookies without having to alter your browser settings – just click the ‘C’ icon in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen when using our website. You can find out more about the tool, here: civicuk.com. Alternatively, you can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when a website sets or uses cookies. You can disable cookies from our site at any time – all modern browsers allow you to change your cookies settings, and these settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. Please note, this may prevent areas of a website from working as intended.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been placed on our website and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
Types of cookies
Essential cookies: these are required for us to operate the website. They include cookies that permit you to store items in an online shopping cart; allow you to log into secure parts of our site or make use of e-payment services.
Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognise you and to count the number of visitors to our website and to see how visitors move around our website; it improves the performance of our website by ensuring that visitors can find what they are searching for easily and to speed up your searches. Google Analytics and Hotjar cookies are enabled on our website by default, but do not collect any personally-identifiable data about you.
Analytics & data collection cookies: Our website uses third party technologies to help us gather aggregate information about the user experience. The Site uses analytics tools (Google Analytics). Because of this, the web browsers used by our visitors automatically send certain information to Google. This includes, for example, the web address of the page that you’re visiting and your IP address. Google may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there. We do not share any of this information with any other third parties.
Functionality cookies: these allow us to recognise you when you return to the website after your first visit. It helps us to personalise content, to greet you by name and remember your preferences (such as language or country). They are used for statistical purposes.
Targeting advertisements cookies: These cookies record your visit to the website, links you have followed and pages you have visited. We will use this information to target information on our website and advertisements displayed on the website more relevant to your interests. We may share this information with third parties and other social media such as Facebook, Instagram for this purpose. Cookie profiling, also called web profiling, is the use of persistent or permanent cookies to track a user’s overall activity online.
When used in conjunction with our advertising services, such as those using the DoubleClick cookie, Google Analytics information is linked, by the Google Analytics customer or by Google, using Google technology, with information about visits to multiple sites.
Our cookies
The table below explains the cookies we use and why:
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| Affectv | This cookie collects information that enables advertisers to serve relevant online advertising to consumers. Read the Affectv Cookie Policy. | |
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This cookie collects information about your interests from the way you use our website. This will then judge the type of adverts you might like to see from advertisers. This includes demographic information such as a consumer’s gender, age, and income range, when not tied to personal identifiers and where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Oracle’s Privacy Policy.
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| Facebook Custom Audience |
This cookie is a targeting cookie that matches people who visit our website with people on Facebook, using the Facebook pixel, it enables us to serve targeted Facebook ads. Visit the Facebook Business website.
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This cookie is a single sign-on application which allows you to login to and interact with our website through your Facebook account to avoid having to take the basic registration steps on our website. Anonymous data is shared with advertising measurement and analytics services and service providers (e.g. partners who provide technical and infrastructure services and analytics services.)
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GA Audiences
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This cookie is used by Google Adwords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
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Google Analytics
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
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Google DoubleClick
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This cookie collects information about what sections of our website you are browsing. DoubleClick will then judge the type of adverts you might like to see from what you’re browsing. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
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Google Tag Manager
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These cookies allow us to collect information about how visitors use our website. The cookies collect information including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited, as well as conversion and remarketing tracking. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
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| Hotjar |
This cookie collects information about how visitors use our website. It reveals the online behaviour and feedback of a website’s visitors by combining both heatmap analysis and feedback tools. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including where users click, the pages they visited and comments submitted via a feedback form. We use the information to diagnose technical problems, analyse user trends and improve our website’s functionality. Read Hotjar’s Privacy Policy.
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Our website may include links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications. By clicking on those links or enabling these connections you may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. Please ensure that you read the privacy policies on any such external websites.
If you do not agree with the described use of the cookies on this website or app and do not wish to disable cookies, we respectfully ask that you do not use this website.
To find out more about how we use, store and protect your data, please see our Privacy Policy.
