Cookie policy

Information about our use of Cookies

www.whosoff.com (our site) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse our site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

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.

We use the following cookies: 

• Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They help improve navigation around our site and allow you to return to pages you have previously visited. This type of cookie only lasts for the duration of your visit to our site and when you leave our site they are deleted automatically.

• Analytical/performance cookies

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This information is aggregated and anonymised and visitors to our site cannot be individually identified from it. These cookies help us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. 

• Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These type of cookies remain on your computer’s hard drive until you choose to clear it. If you choose to do this you will need to enter your details each time you visit our site.

• Targeting cookies

These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie: WhosOff.com
Name: staff.whosoff.com
Purpose: To persist session information

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.

One of the analytical tools we use is Google Analytics whose privacy policy can be found here http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

You can set your web browser to accept or reject specific cookies and alert you each time a cookie is presented to your computer. You can also delete cookies that have been stored on your computer and choose to block cookies being stored at all.

Please note if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

We have set out the steps you need to take to manage cookies on the four most used web browsers below for your ease of reference. Information on how to manage cookies on other web browsers may be found using the help function within that browser. To manage cookies on your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

Guide to Disabling ‘Cookies' using Web Browsers

Safari

1. Go to the Safari menu.
2. Click on the Preferences.
3. Click the ‘Security' tab.
4. Under ‘Accept Cookies', set it to accept, reject, or selectively accept cookies.

Firefox 3.0+

1. Click on 'Tools' in the menu bar
2. Click on 'Options...'
3. Click on 'Privacy' Tab in the top section
4. From the drop down box select ‘Use custom setting for history'
5. Un -tick the box that says 'Accept Cookies From sites'
6. Click OK and Close the screen.

Internet Explorer 7.0+

1. Click on 'Tools' in the menu bar
2. Click on 'Options'
3. Click on 'Privacy' Tab on top section
4. Click on the 'Advanced" button
5. Select ‘Prompt' for both ‘First party cookies' and ‘Third Party Cookies'
6. Click OK and Close the screen.

Google Chrome 8.0+

1. Click to 'Tools Menu'
2. Click on 'Options'
3. Click on 'Under the Bonnet'
4. Click on 'Cookie Setting' button and tick ‘Block all third-party cookies without exception'
5. Close the screen.