Privacy and Cookies
At Big Yellow, we want to be clear and honest about your privacy and about the information which we may collect about you when you visit our website. Please read the information below about what cookie we use.
You can also read our full Privacy Policy here.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are stored on your PC when you visit websites. They hold a small amount of data specific about which pages you visit.
Many e-commerce web sites use cookies to track what products you are looking at and what you have in your basket so when you return to a website they will remember your product preferences and show you more relevant products you might be interested in.
Cookies are not harmful to your computer and do not store any personal identifiable information. They just monitor anonymous actions. If you would like to know about what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit www.aboutcookies.org for more detailed guidance. You can disable cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser.
We use cookies on the Big Yellow website to help us see which pages our web visitors go to, helping us to make improvements to the user’s web experience.
We also may have relationships with advertising companies who can set cookies during your visit to the Big Yellow web site which are then used for re-marketing purposes. This is where you may see banner advertising for Big Yellow Self Storage or Armadillo Self Storage for a short period after you have visited the Big Yellow site.
You can opt out of this if you wish. Simply go to the Network Advertising Initiative Website and select which networks and advertisers to opt out of.
How we use cookies
The table below shows all of the cookies we and third parties use on the Big Yellow website. It explains what these cookies are, what they do and which third party company issues them. We have also included information on how you can opt out.
Remember, these cookies are not harmful to your computer and they hold no personal or sensitive information about you, however you can still opt out of them if you wish.
| Cookie | Description |
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| Session Cookies | We use a session cookie to remember basic information related to your journey through the site i.e. that you have requested ‘business storage’ and therefore we show you ‘business storage’ related information instead of ‘home storage’ information. The cookie holds no personal information and expires once you close your browser. |
| Neilson / Netratings | These are independent measurement and research companies who gather data on visitor numbers to websites including Big Yellow. They do this using cookies, log files and code which is embedded on our website. They only measure volume of visitors and therefore no personal information. Big Yellow uses this type of information to help ensure there is enough server power to provide a fast and efficient web site to our users. How to reject or delete this cookiehttp://www.netratings.com/privacy.jsp?section=leg_scs |
| Doubleclick | Doubleclick ‘Spotlight Tags’ are used to measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns for Big Yellow. User data is anonymous. How to reject or delete this cookiehttp://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx |
| Google Analytics | Big Yellow uses Google Analytics to understand how our website is being used in order to improve the user experience. It gives us information such as the number of people coming to the site, how they got there and what they click on. No personal information is collected or stored so the data is totally anonymous. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data. By using the Big Yellow site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google Analytics for the purposes set out above. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy with regard to its analytics service at: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html How to reject or delete this cookiehttp://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html |
Google Display Network,
Affiliate Window | These companies use cookies to discover general information about the pages on "bigyellow.co.uk" that you visit and it also processes IP addresses to collect other non-personally identifiable information in order to place you in a "market segment". This includes data about the country, city or region where you are located and your domain name (e.g. what ISP you use). It then places advertisements onto pages you subsequently visit which it believes people in your market segment will find relevant. User data is anonymous. Information (IP addresses and information in other cookies on our sites) that the below partners collect is transferred to them, and Big Yellow confirm that the below partners satisfies the EU’s data protection requirements. How to reject or delete these cookieshttp://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html http://www.affiliatewindow.com/documents/legal/privacy.pdf |
