Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
Cookies cannot harm your computer. They play an important role in helping us understand how to improve the website to suit your needs. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.
We may use cookies on this site to enable certain parts of the site to function and to collect information about your use of the site so that we can improve our visitors’ experience and show more relevant content and advertising.
This policy applies to all VIRGIBOOKS - Virginia Creative Studios LTD websites.
Which cookies do we use on our sites and why?
The list below sets out the main cookies that we use on this site and what we use them for.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. These cookies make the website work and deliver services that you’d expect, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
On some of our websites, we use cookies to enable users on our site to browse and purchase titles. These help perform essential functionality such as remembering what items you have added to your shopping cart, keeping you logged in to your shopping account or remembering your order number.
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.
Preferences & Features Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as your language preferences and any customisations you make to pages on our website during your visit. These cookies can also assist you in changing text size, font, and other parts of web pages that you can personalise.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
Users are also able to share posts on various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Linkedin by clicking on the share icons below. No cookies are set in this process, and we have no access to any information relating to any of your accounts. If you wish to understand this functionality, please refer to the privacy policies of the relevant networking site, for example:
https://twitter.com/en/privacy
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/terms/api/
You are able to turn the below cookies on and off at any time via the side panel. If you choose to turn off these cookies, loss of the information stored in a preference cookie may make the website experience less functional but should not prevent it from working.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. These cookies collect information without personally identifying you.
From time to time we may offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
You are able to turn the below cookies on and off at any time via the side panel. Turning off these cookies should not prevent the website from working.
How to manage cookies
If you want to restrict, block or disable cookies, you can do via the side panel. To open the cookie panel, just click on the cookie settings tab at the bottom right of your screen.
If you wish to restrict, block or disable any Necessary cookies, you can do so by changing your browser settings. If you would like more specific information about how to change your browser settings, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which has detailed information for each browser as well as more information about cookies in general.
Please be aware that if cookies are disabled certain features of the site will not function as intended and this may affect your user experience.