Harris Sportsmail Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small data file made up of letters and numbers which is placed by a website on the device you use to access the internet. Cookies serve different purposes. We use cookies to help us to improve our site and to provide us with information about usage of the website. Certain third parties also place cookies on your device when you browse our website.

Most web browsers allow you to have some control over the placing of cookies on your device through your browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to block, manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

Our system will place cookies on your device as soon you visit any page on our website. We use the following categories of cookies:

Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, and to use online forms.
Analytical cookies. 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 helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Marketing cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences. These cookies also 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, the advertising displayed on it and communications sent more relevant to your interests.

Important note: Disabling cookies may mean that you cannot access parts of our website.

The following table lists the cookies used on the Harris Sportsmail website:

Cookie Name	First or Third Party	Purpose
_ga _gat	These are third party cookies placed by Google that allow us to use the Google Analytics service.	These cookies enable us to anonymously track how visitors access and browse our website thereby enabling us to optimise and improve our service. Further information is available at www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
_gads _gats DSID DLC AID TAID gwcc	These are third party cookies placed by Google that allow us to gather information for Google AdWords	These cookies are used to for Remarketing to advertise online. Third-party vendors including Google show our ads on sites across the internet. Harris Sportsmail and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to this website. Further information is available at https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
personalization_id _gid guest_id _twitter_sess __utma pid netpu _ga mbox twitter_ads_id external_referer	These are third party cookies placed by Twitter for Twitter Advertising	Helps us use sponsored tweets more effectively, by measuring the number of people who complete an action on our website (like signing up for an event, or making a donation) in response to a sponsored tweet we've placed on Twitter. The Tailored audience also helps us remarket to visitors that have already visited our site. Further information is available at https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies
SRCHUSR MUID SRCHHPGUSR SRCHD MSFPC _uetsid	These are third party cookies placed by Bing for Advertising	These cookies are used for Bing Ads to advertise online. Third-party vendors including Bing show our ads on sites across the internet. Harris Sportsmail and third-party vendors, including Bing, use third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to this website. Further information is available here https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/policies/privacy-and-data-protection-policies
Sb Fr Datr Lu Xs Act Presence c_user pl _fbp	These are first and third party cookies placed by Facebook or by us, for Facebook and Instragram Advertising	Allows us to create an audience, using data held by Facebook, to deliver sponsored posts through Facebook which are more likely to be relevant to your interests. That means that after visiting our site, you might see our sponsored posts on Facebook instead of other ads Facebook could otherwise show you. This does not provide us with any information which could identify you to us. Further Information is available here https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
_stid __sharethis_cookie_test__ __unam	These are third party cookies for ShareThis, to share our website URLS on social media	This website uses a widget from ShareThis which facilitates the sharing of pages/ links from this website across various social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
sentisum_session __cfduid	These are third party cookies placed by Feefo	This website uses a widget from Feefo to display trusted reviews. __cfduid - Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
paypal-offers--country paypal-offers--locale paypal-offers--view-count-credit ts tsrce x-pp-s nsid akavpau_ppsd X-PP-SILOVER PYPF AKDC	These are third party cookies placed by PayPal for PayPal advertising	Enables PayPal Marketing Solutions which includes unique shopper insights and customisable incentives from PayPal.
laravel_session PHPSESSID	These are first party cookies placed by us	These are unique identifiers for your session while on the website.
XSRF-TOKEN	This is a first party cookie placed by us	This prevents cross-site request forgery from occurring, and ensures the current user is not attempting to run a XSRF exploit on this website.
checkoutform	This is a first party cookie placed by us	This cookie is used to save your address information on the checkout page, so you don't have to re-enter the information if you later visit the page again.