Cookies Policy

Phoebus Software Limited (“PSL”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Cookies Notice is provided for our prospective, existing and former users of our website (“you”, “your”).

A cookie is a small file that contains text. If you allow cookies, the file is stored, by your web browser, on the physical storage media on your device (e.g. your computer’s hard drive) whilst you are browsing the internet or using internet-enabled apps.

Cookies are often used in conjunction with pixels, particularly as part of online advertising. A pixel is a small, transparent picture file that is included in web pages. Pixels contain computer code that detects events on the web page (e.g. a button click) and records the events in the cookie.

To find out more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

How you can control cookies

You can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser. How this is done, and the amount of control that you have over different types of cookie, depends on which browser you use. All mainstream browsers will allow you to turn off cookies completely. You can also delete all cookies (or a selection of them) from your device at any time.

Our use of cookies – overview

The cookies that we rely on are used to

1. support functionality on our website, and in particular, video functionality,
2. integrate between our website and social network accounts that you use, and
3. collect information about how you interact with our website.

The cookies are placed by our website and some of them will be accessed or read by our service providers. A list of our service providers is set out below.

Categories of cookies that we use

The cookies that we rely on are placed when you visit our website, when you use social network accounts and apps, and when you interact with tools or services that our service providers provide (e.g. Facebook “like” buttons).

We cannot normally use cookies to identify you by (for example) your name and address, or to distinguish you from other people who use your device using the same user account.

For information about our legal basis for using cookies, please refer to our Privacy Notice at https://www.phoebus.co.uk/privacy-policy/.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: The cookie is used for web page video playback from third party service. They collect non sensitive information such as feature and preference choices from users. We embed videos in some of our web pages from our own and other third-party Vimeo channels. The embedded Vimeo player uses this cookie to check if certain features or preferences have been selected by the user. The data obtained via the cookie is accessible by Wider/Phoebus/Vimeo.

More information for website users/visitors: To find about more about how each cookie is used by see Vimeo’s cookie list. Read more at Vimeo’s cookies list. https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy. Read more at Vimeo’s privacy policy https://vimeo.com/privacy

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: The cookie is used for web page video playback from third party service. This is one of 3 cookies set by YouTube, which allows us to play videos in some of our web pages from our own and other third-party YouTube channels. It collects non sensitive information such as a unique ID for user’s computer and user’s estimated bandwidth when accessing the page. It attempts to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. The standard setting saves cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. The data obtained via the cookies is accessible by Google/YouTube.

More information for website users/visitors: Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en-GB.

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: This cookie is used for web page video playback from third party service. This is the second of 3 cookies set by YouTube, which allows us to play videos in some of our web pages from our own and other third-party YouTube channels. It collects non sensitive information such as a unique ID for user’s computer and user’s video choices.It registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. The standard setting saves cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. The data obtained via the cookies is accessible by Google/YouTube.

More information for website users/visitors: Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en-GB.

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: This cookie is used for web page video playback from third party service. This is the third of 3 cookies set by YouTube, which allows us to play videos in some of our web pages from our own and other third-party YouTube channels. It collects Non sensitive information such as a unique ID for user’s mobile device and user’s GPS location at the time of accessing the video. It registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. The standard setting saves cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. The data obtained via the cookies is accessible by Google/YouTube.

More information for website users/visitors: Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en-GB.

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: These cookie are used for web page video playback from third party service. These are 2 of 3 cookies set by Google Analytics, which are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. They obtain non sensitive information such as a unique ID for user accessing the webpage and user’s selection on the webpage. They register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website.
Data obtained via these cookies are accessible by Wider/Phoebus/Google/YouTube.

More information for website users/visitors: Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: This cookies is used for web page video playback from third party service. This is the third of 3 cookies set by Google Analytics, which are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. It obtains non sensitive information such as frequency of user’s access to third party resources. It is used to throttle request rate. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website.
Data obtained via this cookie is accessible by Wider/Phoebus/Google/YouTube.

More information for website users/visitors: Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: These 5 cookies facilitate sharing of webpage links on social media networks.
They may pass the following data depending on circumstances/ usage: unique IDs such as a cookie ID on your browser, IP addresses and information derived from IP addresses, such as geographic location, information about your device, such as browser, device type, operating system, the presence or use of ‘apps’, screen resolution, or the preferred language, the date and time of site visit and when functionality used, the referring URL and the web search you used to locate and navigate to the website and how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. If email function used, email address is passed to AddThis. If you are connected to a social media site when browsing our websites, the share button will allow you to link the content viewed to your social media user account. If you do not want the social media site to link the information gathered through our sites to your user account, you will need to log out of the social media site first. Data obtained via these cookies is accessible by Phoebus/Wider/Oracle/AddThis.

More information for website users/visitors: For more information on ShareThis privacy practices, including storage, processing, retention, and use of personal information view the AddThis privacy policy https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/addthis-privacy-policy.html More information on opting out of data retention. https://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-Out

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: This cookie tests to see if browser accepts cookies and if consent has been given for cookies. It collects non sensitive information identifying if the user’s system allowing use of cookies. There is no direct access to data by Phoebus and no third-party access.

Categories of data obtained and Purpose of use: This cookies is used to store a user’s agreement of cookie use, and consent of associated terms and conditions on this website. It collects non sensitive information identifying the user’s option to consent to use of cookies. There is no direct access to data by Phoebus and no third-party access.

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. To prevent collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information. We have provided hyperlinks above to assist you.