Cookie Policy – UK Tales

Effective Date: June 8, 2025

Welcome to uktales.co.uk! This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how UK Tales https://uktales.co.uk uses them, and what your choices are regarding their use. By continuing to browse and use our website, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies allow a website to “remember” you, either for the duration of your visit (using a “session cookie”) or for repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”).

Cookies can serve various purposes, including:

  • Remembering your preferences: Such as language settings or font sizes.
  • Enabling essential website functions: Like navigation or access to secure areas.
  • Analyzing website performance: Helping us understand how visitors use our site so we can improve it.
  • Delivering relevant advertising: Tailoring ads to your interests.

2. How UK Tales Uses Cookies

At UK Tales, we use cookies for several reasons, primarily to enhance your Browse experience, understand how our content is consumed, and to support the functionality of our blog. Our use of cookies helps us to:

  • Improve Website Functionality: Ensure that our website works correctly and efficiently for all users.
  • Understand User Behavior (Analytics): Collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site, which articles are most popular, and how long they stay on pages. This helps us to improve our content and layout.
  • Personalize Your Experience: Remember your preferences, such as if you’ve already seen a pop-up or notification.
  • Support Advertising: Display advertisements that are more relevant to your interests (where applicable).

3. Types of Cookies We Use

We use different types of cookies for various purposes:

  • a. Strictly Necessary Cookies (Essential Cookies)
    • Purpose: These cookies are essential for you to navigate around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services like user logins or content display cannot be provided. They do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
    • Consent: These cookies are automatically placed on your device as they are fundamental to the operation of the website and do not require explicit consent under UK/EU cookie laws.
  • b. Performance and Analytics Cookies
    • Purpose: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. They are used to improve how a website works. We typically use tools like Google Analytics for this purpose. The information gathered is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
    • Consent: We seek your consent for these cookies through our cookie banner.
  • c. Functionality Cookies
    • Purpose: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, they can be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video.
    • Consent: We seek your consent for these cookies through our cookie banner.
  • d. Advertising and Targeting Cookies
    • Purpose: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.
    • Consent: We seek your explicit consent for these cookies through our cookie banner.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies for reporting usage statistics, delivering advertisements, and other blog-related functions. These third parties include:

  • Google Analytics: For understanding website traffic and user behavior.
  • Google AdSense/Other Advertising Partners: For displaying relevant advertisements.
  • Social Media Platforms: If we embed content or have social sharing buttons from platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., these platforms may set their own cookies.
  • Embedded Content Providers: If we embed videos (e.g., YouTube) or other content from third-party services, they may set cookies.

We do not control these third-party cookies. Please refer to the respective privacy and cookie policies of these third-party services for more information on how they use cookies.

5. Your Cookie Choices and Management

Under UK and EU data protection laws, you have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. You can exercise your preferences by adjusting your browser settings or by using our cookie consent tool.

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience as it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.

Here’s how you can manage cookies through your browser:

  • Browser Settings: You can typically set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. The “Help” function within your browser should tell you how.
  • Opt-out Tools: You can opt-out of certain third-party advertising cookies through services like the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Opt-Out Page or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) Your Online Choices.
  • Our Cookie Consent Tool: When you first visit our website, you are presented with a cookie banner that allows you to manage your consent preferences for different categories of cookies (e.g., analytics, advertising). You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie icon (if available) or a link provided in the footer of our website.

Please note: If you disable “strictly necessary” cookies, some parts of our website may not function correctly. If you disable “performance,” “functionality,” or “advertising” cookies, your experience on our site may be less personalized, and you might see less relevant advertisements.

6. Changes to Our Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post any new Cookie Policy on this page. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us:

Email: contact@uktales.co.uk