Our Site uses cookies to improve our Site and enhance your experience. This policy explains how we do that.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a text file containing a small amount of data which is downloaded to the device you use to access our Site and stored on your device’s hard drive. These cookies are for various purposes, including to let our Site recognise your device when you visit the Site again, ensure that you are sent the correct content and to store information about your preferences or services provided for you.
Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term ‘cookies’ in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this manner.
What cookies do we use?
The cookies on our Site can be divided into four categories:
Essential Cookies
Some cookies are essential for the operation of our Site. For example, cookies allow us to identify users so that they can log-in to their accounts. If you opt to disable these cookies, you will not be able to access your account.
Performance Cookies
We use cookies to analyse how visitors use our Site and to monitor our Site’s performance. This allows us to identify any problems and quickly fixing any issues. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular. We might also use performance cookies to display links to other pages that we think you might be interested in based on the pages you have been viewing.
Functionality Cookies
We use functionality cookies to remember your preferences. For example, to remember any changes you have made to your preferences in your account settings. We may also use functionality cookies to provide you with other services, such as allowing you to watch video clips on our Site.
Advertising or Tracking Cookies
We and our third party advertisers use cookies to provide you with advertisements that we consider are relevant and of interest to you. For example, if you look at an artist or event you might see advertisements for the same artist or event or similar artists or events on our Site or other websites that you visit.
Third Party Cookies
Please note that third parties (for example, advertising networks) may use cookies over which we have no control in order to provide you with targeted advertising. These cookies are likely to be performance cookies or advertising or tracking cookies. We do not control these third party cookies and for more information you should check the third party’s privacy and/or cookies policy.
Changing browser settings
You can change your browser settings to limit which cookies can be set. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu for your browser. Further information can be found here, or in the ‘Help’ menu of your browser:
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Safari
However, if you change your settings and block cookies, this will mean that certain features on our Site cannot be provided to you and you may not be able to take full advantage of all of our Site’s features.