Our Cookies Policy & Guidence
We use cookies and similar tools across our websites to improve their performance and enhance your
user experience. This policy explains how we do that.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your
computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise
your device the next time you visit. 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 way.
There are many functions cookies serve. For example, they can help
us to remember your username and preferences analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we
believe will be most relevant to you.
Certain cookies contain personal information for example, if you click to remember me when
logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies wont collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect
more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a users general location.
What sort of cookies does
FOCUS COACHING & TRAINING (FOCUS) use?
Generally, our cookies perform up to four different functions:
1. Essential cookies
Some
cookies are essential for the operation of our website. For example, some cookies allow us to identify subscribers and ensure they
can access the subscription only pages. If a subscriber opts to disable these cookies, the user will not be able to access all of
the content that a subscription entitles them to.
2. Analytical and/or Performance Cookies
Some cookies analyse how our visitors use
our websites and to monitor website performance. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors
move around our website when they are using it. This can help us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that
users are finding what they are looking for easily. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are
most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.
We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage
of the website.
3. Functionality Cookies
We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences for your return visits
to our website. For example, cookies save you the trouble of typing in your username every time you access the site. This also enables
us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
4.
Behaviourally Targeted Advertising Cookies
FOCUS COACHING & TRAINING
use cookies to record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information
to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third
parties for this purpose anonymously. We do not tell third parties who you are.
Does anyone else use cookies on FOCUS COACHING
& TRAINING (FOCUS) websites?
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]. Advertisers for example sometimes use their own cookies to provide you with targeted advertising. If
you are based in the European Union and would like to learn more about how advertisers use these types of cookies or to choose not
to receive them, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu. If you are based in the United States and would like to learn more, please
visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Google Cookies
FOCUS uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics
generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information
generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information.
Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
FOCUS publishes Google Adsense interest-based advertisements
on this website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour
across the web using cookies. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser using Google's Ads Preference
Manager, available at:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. You can opt-out of the Adsense partner network cookie at: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
However, this opt-out mechanism uses a cookie, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.
To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in available at:http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.
Can a website user block cookies?
As weve explained above, cookies help you to
get the most out of our websites.
The first time you access our website, you should have seen an overlay which explained that by continuing
to access our site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
However, if you do wish to disable our cookies then please follow the
instructions on our How to Manage Cookies page.
Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain
sections of our website do not work properly
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
As we explain in our Cookie Policy, cookies help you to get the most
out of our websites.
If you do disable our cookies you may find that certain sections of our website do not work. For example, you
may have difficulties logging in or viewing articles.
How to disable behaviourally targeted advertising cookies
If you are concerned
about behaviourally targeted advertising cookies (which serve you advertisements based on your use of www.focuscoaching.org.uk and
other websites), users based in the European Union can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu and users based in the US can visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
to opt out of these third party cookies.
The above websites are not Focus Coaching & Training sites and we are not responsible
for their content.
You can disable cookies using your browser
Google Chrome
To prevent new cookies from being installed
Click on the spanner icon in the top right of the browser
Click on "Options"
Click on "Under the Bonnet" (UK) / "Under the Hood" (US)
Click on the
"Content settings" button in the Privacy section
Ensure that "Allow local
data to be set" is selected
Select "Block sites from setting any data"
To
delete existing cookies
Click on the spanner icon in the top right of
the browser
Click on "Options"
Click on "Under the Bonnet" (UK) / "Under the Hood" (US)
Click on the
"Content settings" button in the Privacy section
Click on the "Clear
browsing data" button
Firefox 2.0+, 3.0+, 4.0+
To prevent new cookies from being installed
Go to Tools in the menu bar
Click on Options
Click on the Privacy tab
Disable the box that says "Accept Cookies From
sites"
To delete existing cookies
Go to Tools in the menu bar
Click on Options
Click on the Privacy tab
Click on "Clear Now"
Select "Cookies"
Click on "Clear Private Data Now"
Safari (MAC)
To prevent new cookies from being installed and delete existing cookies
Go to the Safari menu (icon in top right of browser) and select Preferences
In the popup window that appears, select the Security icon (a padlock)
Under "Accept Cookies", select the "Never" button
Internet Explorer 9.0+
To prevent new cookies from being installed
Go to Tools in the menu bar
Click on Internet Options
Click on the Privacy tab on top
Move the slider up to the "Block all
Cookies" button
To delete existing cookies
Go to Tools in the menu
bar
Click on Internet Options
Click on the General tab which should be under "Browsing History" and click "Delete"
Internet Explorer 8.0+
To prevent new cookies
from being installed
Go to Tools in the menu bar
Click on Internet Options
Click on the Privacy tab on top
Click on "Sites"
A new window should open called "Per Site Privacy Actions"
Type in the URL of the site in the "Address of website" box and click on Block
To delete existing cookies
Go to Tools in the menu bar
Click on 'Internet Options'
Click on the Privacy tab on top
Click on "Sites"
A new window should open called "Per Site Privacy Actions"
Under the
"Managed websites" box should be a list of all the websites you have visited
To remove all cookies click on the "Remove all" button
All other browsers
Please look for a help function in the browser or contact the browser provider.
How to manage cookies Information by courtesy ofhttp://www.allaboutcookies.org/
