Mink

Cookies


This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to
help us customise your experience. Find out more about cookies and
how you can control them. This page contains information on



  • What ‘cookies’ are?


  • The cookies used by the Mink Models Management (MMM) and Mink
    websites?

  • How to switch cookies off in your browser?

  • How to specifically switch off advertising cookies? And

  • Some useful links for further reading.


  • If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or
    you have any further questions about the use of cookies on the
    Mink Models Management (MMM) and Mink websites, please email
    >info@minkmodelsmanagement.org.uk >
    or
    info@mink.org.uk



'Cookies' are small text files that are stored by the browser (for
example, Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile
phone. They allow websites to store things like user preferences.
You can think of cookies as providing a 'memory' for the website,
so that it can recognise you when you come back and respond
appropriately.


How does the Mink websites use cookies?



A visit to a page on the Mink websites may generate the
following types of cookie:



  • Site performance cookies

  • Anonymous analytics cookies

  • Geotargetting cookies

  • Registration cookies

  • Advertising cookies

  • Third party advertising cookies



For a visual representation of the different types of cookies used
on the Mink websites click on the button below:


Site performance cookies


This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on
the Mink websites, so you don't have to re-set them each
time you visit. Examples include:



  • Volume settings for our video player


  • Whether you see the latest or the oldest article comments first


  • Video streaming speeds that are compatible with your browser


Anonymous analytics cookies:


Every time someone visits our website, software provided by
another organisation generates an 'anonymous analytics cookie'.
These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site
before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and,
if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how
many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site.
Unless you are signed in to the Mink Models Management , 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.


Anonymous analytics cookies:



Every time someone visits our website, software provided by
another organisation generates an 'anonymous analytics cookie'.
These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site
before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and,
if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how
many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site.
Unless you are signed in to the Mink Models Management , 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


Geotargetting cookies



These cookies are used by software which tries to work out what
country you are in from the information supplied by your browser
when you click on a web page. This cookie is completely anonymous,
and we only use it to help target our content – such as whether
you see our UK or US home page – and advertising.


Registration cookies



When you register with either Mink, we generate cookies
that let us know whether you are signed in or not. Our servers 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
on the Mink website.


Advertising cookies



These cookies allow us to know whether or not you've seen an
advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you've seen
it. We also use cookies to help us use targeted advertising. We
may use cookies set by another organization so we can more
accurately target advertising to you. These cookies are anonymous
– they store information about what you are looking at on our
site, but not about who you are. We also set anonymous cookies on
certain other sites that we advertise on. If you receive one of
those cookies, we may then use it to identify you as having
visited that site if you later visit the Mink website. We
can then target our advertising based on this information.


Third party advertising cookies



A lot of the advertisements you see on MMM are provided by other
organisations. Some of these organisations use their own anonymous
cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to
track how many people have seen it more than once. The companies
that generate these cookies have their own
privacy policies, and we have no access to read or
write these cookies. These organizations may use their cookies to
anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on
your visit to the Mink website.


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) on the
Mink website, the social network that has created the
button will record that you have done this.


How do I turn cookies off?



It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or
to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. However,
we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies, so you
would not be able to post comments.



All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You
can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences'
menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following
links may be helpful, or you can use the 'Help' option in your
browser for more details.

>Cookie settings in Internet Explorer >
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari Web and
iOS.



If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated
by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the
Your Online Choices site.



You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising
platforms for more information:
Network Advertising Initiative.



They have provided a site a site where you can control all
third-party online advertising. Please note that there are many
more networks listed on this site than those that we use at Mink Models Management News & Media.



You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising
platforms for more information:
Network Advertising Initiative.


Useful links


Microsoft Cookies guide
All About Cookies



The IAB has provided the following website to give information
specifically about privacy issues around Internet advertising:
youronlinechoices.co.uk/uk



Data Protection Act 1998
The Information Commissioner's Office



If you would like to contact us about cookies please email us at
info@minkmodelsmanagement.org.uk or info@mink.org.uk