Cookies

Effective Date: 1 May 2019

Sport24, by IMG Media Limited (registration number 04459066) first and only LIVE sports channel specifically for the Airline and Cruise line industries produced by IMG Media Limited ("we", "us", "our"), is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy as described in our Privacy Notice, of which this Cookie Policy forms a part.

 

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies and "web beacons" identify your browser collect and store information when you visit our website including information about how you use it through which it is possible to monitor your use of the website, as well as provide you with a better service and experience when browsing the website and for analytics. Cookies and Web Beacons:

  • allow us to optimise our products and services;
  • provide us and third-party partners with analytics information, such as how many visitors our website receives; and
  • are used by us in our email correspondence to determine whether you open them or take any further action.

Cookies: a cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded on to a device when the user accesses certain websites. Cookies are then sent back to originating website on each subsequent visit. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

Web beacons:  also known as "single pixel GIFs", "clear GIFs" or "tags" are small graphic images that may be included on our website.

Purposes of collection
You can find more information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them set out below.

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies can expire at the end of a browser session from when a user opens the browser window to when they exit the browser (Session Cookies) or they can be stored for longer (Persistent Cookies).

Session cookies – allow websites to link your actions during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes such as remembering what a customer has put in their shopping basket as they browse around a site. They can also be used for security when a user is accessing internet banking or to facilitate use of webmail. Session cookies expire after a browser session.

Persistent cookies – are stored on a users’ device in between browser sessions, which allow the preferences or actions of the user to be remembered on a website or in some cases across different websites. Persistent cookies are used for a variety of purposes including remembering your preferences and choices when using a site or to target advertising.

We use persistent cookies to recognise you and provide you with a good user experience.

We sometimes work with other organisations to place our cookies and web beacons on their websites or in their advertisements. We do this to help us develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on our websites results in a purchase or other interaction on the advertiser's First and third party cookies – Whether a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party refers to the website or domain placing the cookie. First party cookies in basic terms are cookies set by a website visited by the user - the website displayed in the URL window. Third party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than the one being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and a separate company sets a cookie through that website this would be a third party cookie.

First party cookies

Session Cookies (Technical Cookies): strictly limited to sending the session identifiers (random numbers generated by the server) needed for secure and efficient Website browsing. They are not permanently stored on the user’s computer and are deleted upon browser closing. In particular, the use of the session cookies aims at ensuring security and improving of the offered service; and

Technical Cookie: required to keep track of the consent given by the user.

The described cookies do not require your consent to be installed and used:

Third party cookies

Some third parties can also provide cookies on our website(s). These cookies or similar technologies are managed by the third parties set out in the table below and are divided into the following categories:

  • Analytical Cookies: we use Google Analytics, the web analytics service offered by Google, Inc. (“Google”) to analyse how our Website is used. This service uses cookies generating information on your use of our Website (including your IP address), collected from Google in an anonymous form. Disabling these third-party cookies does not affect the Website use;
  • Marketing/Advertising: Cookies used to provide advertising services on a given Website fall within this category. Disabling these third-party cookies does not affect the Website use; and
  • Profiling Cookies: They are used to trace the user’s network browsing and create profiles about his/her tastes, behaviour, choices, etc. These cookies allow the transmission of online advertising messages to the user’s device with the preferences already expressed by that same user when browsing. In accordance with applicable laws, using these cookies and any processing related thereto require the prior user’s consent. Disabling these third-party cookies does not affect the Website use.

 

THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS

We suggest that you visit the following third-party websites to understand how their cookies are used.

Google Analytics

The web analytics service offered by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to analyse how our Website is used. This service uses cookies generating information on your use of our Website (including your IP address), collected from Google in an anonymous form. Disabling these third-party cookies does not affect the Website use.  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, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

Profiling: Yes

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Facebook

Facebook. We use cookies to verify your account and determine when you are logged in so we can make it easier for you to access the Facebook Products and show you the appropriate experience and features. Facebook use cookies to help keep your account, data and the Facebook Products safe and secure. Facebook use cookies to help show ads and to make recommendations for businesses and other organisations to people who may be interested in the products, services or causes they promote. Facebook use cookies to enable the functionality that help provide the Facebook Products. Facebook use cookies to provide you with the best experience possible.

Profiling: Yes

https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

Instagram

Instagram use cookies to verify your account and determine when you are logged in so we can make it easier for you to access the Instagram Products and show you the appropriate experience and features. Instagram use cookies to help keep your account, data and the Instagram Products safe and secure. Instagram use cookies to help show ads and to make recommendations for businesses and other organisations to people who may be interested in the products, services or causes they promote. Instagram use cookies to enable the functionality that help provide the Instagram Products. Instagram use cookies to provide you with the best experience possible.

Profiling: Yes   

https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370?ref=ig

You also acknowledge and consent to the use of third party cookies (including, for example, those provided by operators of advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services). You acknowledge that where we allow advertising networks, external services, and other third-party services on the website, we have no control over cookies they collect.  

 

Refusing or deleting cookies

Most internet browsers are set up by default to accept cookies. However, if you want to refuse or delete any cookies (or similar technologies), please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies (for example: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari). Please note you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of our Website, including certain personalised features, if you delete or refuse cookies.

To opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For more information on managing cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org

 

If you are a resident in the EU:

For more information on managing cookies, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu which has further information about behavioural advertising and online privacy.

 

Changes to our Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time.

If we change anything important about this Cookie Policy we will notify you through a pop-up on the website for a reasonable length of time prior to and following the change. You may review the Cookie Policy by visiting the website and clicking on the “Cookie Policy” link.