Cookie Policy

We 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.

By using wwnorton.co.uk, you confirm that you accept the terms of this policy and agree to us setting cookies via your browser.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are used by most websites, cannot harm your computer and allow our website to recognise your computer in order to provide functionality like saving your preferences on a site.

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.

  • Analytics cookies
    The Google Analytics tool collects information about how visitors use our websites, for example how many visitors came to our website and when, what browsers visitors use and how long visitors stay on the site. This data does not contain any information that is personal to you
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  • Advertising cookies
    We may from time to time use pixels from advertising providers like Facebook, Twitter and Google Adwords in order to deliver ads that are relevant to you and your interests. These cookies can track your browsing history across our websites. If you wish to prevent these cookies you can opt out of these cookies through your device’s browser security settings or via any account you have with the advertising providers. If you would like more specific information about how to change your browser settings, please visit allaboutcookies.org
    We use the Facebook Pixel, which (if you are a Facebook user) enables us to deliver adverts that are relevant to you via Facebook. The Facebook Pixel is a cookie that collects information about your visit to our site (such as your IP address). That information is relayed to Facebook by the Facebook Pixel. If you do not have a Facebook account the data is not used and is deleted. If you have a Facebook account, Facebook can then recognise you from your IP address the next time you log in to Facebook and deliver advertising to you based on the information it collected from your visit to our site. If you wish to stop the Facebook Pixel from collecting information, you can do so by changing your settings in your account: https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/568137493302217 .
    We also use Twitter’s cookies on our site which operate in a similar way. You can prevent these cookies from operating through your device’s browser security settings by changing the settings in your account https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/privacy-controls-for-tailored-ads.

  • Social media cookies
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    These are "Add This"/"Share This" social media cookies. These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their accounts on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest and share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to any of your accounts.
    Third party Facebook cookies
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    These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their Facebook account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts.
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    These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their Twitter account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts.
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    This cookie enables users, if they wish, to login to their Pinterest account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts.

  • Login related cookies
    We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact and prevent you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

  • Shopping cookies
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    These cookies are necessary 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.

  • Forms related cookies
    When you submit data to 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.

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    These are third party cookies placed by YouTube videos we have embedded on the site. We do not control the setting of these cookies so please check the websites of these third-parties for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Third-party cookies

Some features used on this website may involve a cookie being sent to your computer by a third party. For example, if you view or listen to any embedded audio or video content you may be sent cookies from the site where the embedded content is hosted. Likewise, if you share any content on this website through social networks (for example by clicking a Facebook “like” button or a “Tweet” button) you may be sent cookies from these websites. We do not control the setting of these cookies so please check the websites of these third parties for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

How to manage cookies

If you want to restrict, block or disable 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 allaboutcookies.org, which has detailed information for each browser as well as more information about cookies in general.

You may also opt out of Facebook and Twitter's use of cookies and pixel re-marketing through the settings on your Facebook (https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/568137493302217) or Twitter account (https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/privacy-controls-for-tailored-ads), or through use of the Digital Advertising Alliance's YourAdChoices tool (http://optout.aboutads.info).