Cookie Policy

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file or information recorded on your computer or mobile device (e.g. smart phone, tablet) when you visit our websites (ameshealth.uk) using mobile and desktop devices. Cookies generally contain names of websites they come from, their lifecycle (for who long they will stay at your device) and values consisting of randomly assigned numbers.

What Do We Use Them for?

We use cookies for easier use of our websites, setting of websites according to your interests and needs and customization for showing smart advertisement to our users. Websites are able to read and write such cookie files , thereby, ensuring that you are recognized and important information related to you is remembered in order to provide a website better suited to you (such as remembering your choice settings). Cookies also help align your movements on our websites in future. Additionally, we can also use cookies with a view to collecting statistical information about use of our websites in order to understand how visitors use our websites and to improve design and usefulness of our websites.

What Types of Cookies Do We Use?

We use twp types of cookies across our websites, i.e. session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies and they are only valid until you close your browser. Permanent cookies remain on your hard disk until you delete them or until they expire (how long cookies will remain on your device will depend on "lifecycles"of cookies).

3 rd Party Cookies

We may allow our business partners, advertisement platforms, social media platforms as well as service providers gathering analytic information which are used cross our website to record cookies on our behalf at your devices when you visit our website. For further information about these cookies and detailed information on how to control such cookies, please examine privacy policies or cookie policies of such third party institutions and organizations.
Cookie Used: Monitoring/Analysis
What does it do?: It provided anonymous bulk data on where you navigate and what you do within the website of Ames

Lifecycle: Permanent, session and 3rd party
Details: Google Analytics, YouTube Viewing, Gemius, Comscore
Functionality: Social Media / Posting
What does it do?: It helps you post comments, pages, bookmarks and facilitates access to social networks and social tools.
Lifecycle: 3rd party
Details: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

Targeting and Advertisement: Inter-sites monitoring
What does it do?: It provides anonymous information about visitors such as websites visited before and after the website of Ames.
Lifecycle: Permanent, session and 3rd party
Details: doubleclick.net: adform.com, 1DMP, 1DMC

Preference: Location
What does it do?: It ensured that the user's approximate address is determined owing to IP address (province, district, postal code) and the most suitable ones are provided to the user depending on content and advertisement preferences of the user.
Lifecycle: Session, 3rd party
Details: Mobile Advertisement platforms

Analytics: Google Analytics
What does it do?: Such cookies ensure that all statistical data is gathered, therefore, help improve presentation and use of the website in this way. Google makes us better understand users by adding societal statistics and data related to related persons to such statistics.
Lifecycle: Permanent, session and 3rd party
Details: Google Analytics

How can you Control or Delete Cookies?

Many web browsers are set to automatically accept cookies as default. You may change such settings in a manner blocking cookies or giving a warning when cookies are sent to your device. There are a few ways of managing cookies. Please refer to instruction or help screen of your browser for further information on how to edit your browser settings.
If you deactivate cookies used by us, such action may affect your user experience at Ames websites; for instance, you may be unable to view certain parts of Ames website or when you visit a website of Ames website, you may not be able to access to information customized for you.
If you're using different devices to view websites of Ames (e.g. computer, smart phone, tablet, etc.), you need to make sure that each one of such devices is set according to your cookie choices at every browser.