This Cookie Policy applies to information collected and used by World of Books Group Limited (“we,” “our” or “us”) when you visit our website. This information is collected through instruments known as cookies and various other technologies used to set and interact with cookies on our site, including tools such as web beacons and tracking pixels (all referred to as “cookies”).

You are free to ask us to (or set your browser or operating system settings to) limit certain tracking or to decline cookies in relation to cookies which are not necessary, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on our website.

In certain circumstances, we collect personal information about you through these cookies which may include your IP address, information about the way you use our website, your choice of internet browser and the type of device you’re accessing our website from. This is in order for us to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users which may be relevant to offering our services to you. Where any information we collect through cookies qualifies as personal information, our Privacy Notice as well as this Cookie Policy, applies to the collection and use of such personal information.

Cookies are small files placed onto your computer or mobile phone by certain websites that you visit or e-mails that you open. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies can be ‘first-party’ or ‘third-party’ depending on the domain that sets them. In relation to our website, first-party cookies are set by us and information is collected and used by us in accordance with the terms of this Cookie Policy and our online Privacy Notice. Third-party cookies are set by third parties and information is collected and used in accordance with their policies.

First and third-party cookies are either ‘persistent’ or ‘session’ cookies depending on their duration. Persistent cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in those cookies and are activated each time that user visits the website that created the cookies, until the cookies expire or are disabled by the user. Session cookies allow the actions of a user to be linked during a single browsing session. A session starts when a user opens a browser window, stores information while you are browsing and ends when you leave the website and close the browser window, following which all session cookies are deleted. Our platforms use both persistent and session cookies. We have set out clearly in the table below when our cookies expire.

Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary to make our website work correctly and therefore cannot be turned off or rejected. They enable you to move around our website and use certain features. Without these, you would not be able to navigate between pages or use certain vital features of our website. These cookies are necessary for our website to work for you and we do not require your consent for use of these particular cookies. These cookies allow you to use some essential features, for example adding items to your basket and proceeding to checkout.

Performance Cookies: These cookies help us to monitor website performance and collect anonymous data on how visitors use our website. The cookies provide information to help improve how our website works and to ensure that we enhance your website experience with us.

Functional Cookies: These cookies allow our platform to remember if you have previously visited our site or the choices you make (such as your username/email address, language, region or preferences) to provide a more personalised online experience. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time you visit our site.

Targeting Cookies: We use targeting cookies designed to gather information from you on your advice so that we are able to display advertisements to you based on relevant topics that interest you. We use the following types of targeting cookies on our website:

(1) Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us understand how you interact with our platforms by providing information such as the areas visited, the time spent on the website, and any issues encountered, such as error messages. These cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services. The majority of the information in these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous and used only to improve how our websites work. However, as part of Google Analytics, some data (your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the UK temporarily, prior to it being anonymised.

(2) Social Media cookies: We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including Facebook, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

(3) Marketing Cookies: We use marketing cookies on our website to monitor and track user behaviour in order to serve you with certain advertising relevant to your interests.

(4) Email Interaction Cookies: Our emails may contain cookies to tell us whether they are opened and verify any clicks through to links within an email. We (or our marketing service provider on our behalf) use this information to help us understand how an email campaign performed, what types of emails and content our subscribers find interesting, and what actions recipients of our emails took, so we can improve our email campaigns in the future and make our emails more relevant to you. If you do not wish the cookies to be downloaded onto your device, please contact us and let us know or alternatively you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.

Type	Description	Provider	Expiration	Expiry
authTokenUS	This cookie is used to authenticate and validate user sessions for users located in the United States. It stores a secure token that confirms the user’s identity and maintains their login state, enabling them to access protected or personalized features without needing to log in repeatedly during their session.	sell.worldofbooks.com	Strictly Necessary Cookies	1 year
OptanonAlertBoxClosed	This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year and contains no personal information.	sell.worldofbooks.com	Strictly Necessary Cookies	1 year
OptanonConsent	This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.	sell.worldofbooks.com	Strictly Necessary Cookies	1 year
i18n	This cookie name is used to remember the user's language preference and ensure the website displays in the chosen language.	sell.worldofbooks.com	Strictly Necessary Cookies	1 year
localePrefix	This cookie is used to store the user’s preferred language and regional settings (e.g., language, country, or locale) to personalize the user experience on the website or application. By storing this information, the cookie allows the site to display content, interface elements, date/time formats, and other locale-specific features correctly, according to the user’s preference or region.	sell.worldofbooks.com	Strictly Necessary Cookies	1 year
_gclxxxx	This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.	Performance Cookies	2 months
_uetvid	This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to store and track conversions. Google conversion tracking cookie	sell.worldofbooks.com	Performance Cookies	1 year
_uetsid	This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.	Targeting Cookies	a few seconds
AwinChannelCookie	Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came.	sell.worldofbooks.com	Targeting Cookies	1 month
exponea_time2	This cookie name is used by Bloomreach to provide timezone functionality.	worldofbooks.com	Targeting Cookies	a few seconds
exponea_etc	This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear.	google.com	Targeting Cookies	2 years
98989_lantern	This cookie is likely used by the application to manage specific user preferences, session data, or other functional aspects required for the user experience or application performance.	roeye.com	Third Party	6 months
IDE	This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange	doubleclick.net	Third Party	1 year
MSPTC	This domain is owned by Microsoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.	bing.com	Third Party	1 year
MR	This domain is owned by Microsoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.	bat.bing.com	Third Party	6 days
xnpe_cacc72a8-ffe5-11ed-a034-5aefccab3040	This cookie allows Bloomreach to store data related to individual sessions, helping the website to analyze customer journeys and deliver relevant promotions or recommendations in future visits.	api.uk.exponea.com	Third Party	2 years
MUID	This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.	bing.com	Third Party	1 year
test_cookie	This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange	doubleclick.net	Third Party	a few seconds

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (‘Google’) Google Analytics uses cookies (text files placed on your computer) to help us analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the UK. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage, such as facilitating remarketing. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You can view and manage cookie settings here

Cookie Settings

You may also refuse to accept cookies by changing the settings of your Internet browser. If you do not want cookies to be placed on your device, you can control this through your browser’s settings. Please refer to the links below for each browser’s guide on how to turn off or delete cookies.

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
  
  

Alternatively, you can control some third party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

If you choose not to allow the use of cookies, some areas of our website may not function properly or be accessible, and you’ll need to accept the use of cookies and provide other cookie-preference information again if you change your mind.

As explained above, we use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here.

From time to time we may make changes to this Cookie Policy to ensure that it is accurate and up to date and to reflect any changes in the law. This policy was last updated on October 9, 2024.

Contacting us and making a complaint

If you have comments, questions or complaints about or requests relating to this Cookie Policy statement, please contact us using: data@worldofbooks.com.