Cookie Policy

Use of ‘cookies’

Like many other websites, the Deal Music and Arts website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual.

For example, we use cookies to store your device and browser preference. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service.

What types of cookies are there?

Broadly, there are 4 types of cookie:

Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are essential to make a website work and enable features that users have specifically asked for. These types of cookies are commonly used with shopping baskets or e-billing. Without use of cookies, these features of the website could not operate.

Performance cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about users for the purpose of assessing the performance of a website. Common uses include well-known web analytics tools such as ‘Google Analytics’.

Functionality cookies: These are cookies that automatically remember choices that users have previously made in order to improve their experience next time they visit a website. For example, where users select their preferred settings and layout.

Targeting or Advertising cookies: These cookies are similar to performance cookies, in that they collect information about users’ behaviour. However, this information is used at individual user level to advertise products and services to users on the basis of the behavioural information collected.

What cookies does the Deal Music and Arts website use?

We use both Strictly Necessary and Performance cookies.

The Strictly Necessary cookies are required and expire at the end of your browsing session.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website which generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.

The analytics cookies used by our website have the following names: _ga, _gat and _gid

Our analytics service provider’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

We share our Google Analytics data with our domain administrator, Mickle Creative Solutions, to help us provide a better service.

Your choices regarding cookies

It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences.

For more information on how to delete cookies on your computer or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Review of these Policies

We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in July 2020.