Cookie Policy - Virgin Money Unity Arena

In order to ensure users of our website are getting the most out of their experience with us, we use cookies on our website. A cookie is a small file that is automatically placed onto your computer when you click through and use websites (including this one) and which is stored by the browser on your computer’s hard drive. It is important to understand that a cookie stores data about your computer, not your personal data. Virgin Money Unity Arena do not use cookies to store information about you. Cookies are only used to track your order progress and user preferences and to improve your overall experience using the website.

We track two types of cookies: Temporary and Persistent

Temporary Cookie

A temporary cookie is used to keep track of your  “session”. Without that temporary cookie (which is not stored after you quit your browser) you would have to log on every time you access a new page.

Persistent Cookie

A persistent cookie is stored on your device. They help us provide you with user preferences, settings and information for future visits on our Platform. Persistent cookies allow convenient and easy access to familiar variables such as facilitating preferences such as favourites, bookmarks or language preferences. They can also be used to assess browsing behaviour.

Various cookies do different things, including:

Absolutely necessary cookies
These cookies are required to help the website function with the system settings of the device you are using – i.e to communicate to the website that you are using a mobile or
desktop.

Session Cookie
This cookie is used to identify you as you work through our website and the ticket ordering process.

Traffic Management Cookie
This cookie is used to ensure the Site operates smoothly in heavy traffic, giving you the best possible experience by sharing our web traffic between multiple servers to permit specific use to certain IP addresses.

Cookie Options Cookie
This cookie is used to save whether or not you consent to other cookies being used. It is not used to gather information, but instead acts as a guard to other cookies, should you opt out for cookie data. If you delete this cookie your Virgin Money Unity Arena privacy settings will reset back to default and you will be shown a message at the bottom of the window asking you if you’d like to change your privacy options.

Advertising Cookies
Targeting and advertising cookies track your internet habits and are used to deliver you advertising that a legally compliant party would like someone with your interests to receive. They can also limit the number of times you see an ad and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, dependent on how the advertiser sets that ad to behave.

Managing cookies

You can set your preferences with this website 

You can manage Site cookies in your browser settings, and you always have the choice to change these settings by accepting, rejecting, or deleting cookies. If you choose to change your settings, you may find that certain functions and features will not work as intended. Please click below for detailed information on how to disable and delete cookies in some commonly used browsers or visit the “Help” section of your browser:

To find out more about cookies, here are some useful resources that provide detailed information about types of cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your cookie preference: http://www.aboutcookies.org.

Please note that, if you do set your Internet browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to access all of the functions of the Site and your experience may not be satisfactory. Our website is designed with the use of cookies in mind.

The names of the cookies used by the Site and the purposes for which these cookies are used are set out in the table below:

Cookie Name Purpose Type Duration
Facebook Pixel Advertising Tracking Third Party Persistent
Google Analytics Analytics Tracking Third Party Persistent
Google Adwords Advertising Tracking Third Party Persistent
Twitter Advertising Tracking Third Party Persistent

 

Ticketline – PHPSESSID / This is a session cookie, from The PHP Group that stores and tracks a user when navigating and using this website to purchase tickets.

Expiration Date: Session / Category: Required.

Google Analytics –

_utma: 2 years, optional.

_utmb: 30 minutes, optional.

_utmc: Session, optional.

_utmz: 6 months, optional.

_ga: 2 years, optional. 

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