Cookie Policy - Mousetrap Productions Limited
Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our [insert link to Website Privacy Policy] which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
Who we are
This website is operated by Mousetrap Productions Limited trading as The Mousetrap. We are theatre production company.
Our website and third party
This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website, including the purchase of tickets for The Mousetrap via our website.
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. We also have links to our facebook page and our twitter and Instagram accounts on our website. If you click on these links you will be asked for consent to accept their cookies. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us to ensure our website works/functions quickly and efficiently; to monitor our website to help us to make improvements; to tailor our marketing to communicate more effectively; and to recognise you and your device and store information about your preferences or past actions to provide you with a better user experience.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings/ How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so
We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested, e.g. to enable you to purchase tickets.
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by clicking on the Privacy icon at the bottom right of any page on our site. You can then choose to accept all, reject all or alternatively turn consent on or off for specific elements. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our use of cookies
The following is a summary of the cookies we use on our website:
We use cookies to make our website work, for example:
- Analytics cookies, which monitor how people use our site – for example the browser they use and the pages they visit. It’s used to assess our website’s performance and to help us plan improvements.
- Session cookies, which is a transient cookie (it is erased when you close the browser). It acts as a small amount of memory to remember what you’ve done on past pages.
- Performance cookies to collect information about how you use our website, e.g. which pages you go to most often. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information about you. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous, and is only used to improve how our website works.
- Functionality cookies, which allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Anonymous visitor statistics cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g., Mac or Windows, which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before; this helps us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
- Social media cookies, which allow us to personalise your interaction with social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTube. Such cookies recognise users of those social media sites when you view social media content on our website, and have their own cookie policies. They also allow you to quickly share content across social media.
- Advertising cookies. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work to accepted privacy standards such as https://www.youronlinechoices.com/goodpractice. You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choicesalthough we would prefer that you didn’t, as ultimately advertising helps keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see adverts, just simply that they won’t be tailored to you any longer.
You can learn more about the individual cookies we use below:
Cookie – type and name | Essential | Purpose | Duration |
_gcl_au | Yes | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months |
_ga | Yes | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 2 years |
_gid | Yes | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day |
_gat_UA_<container-id> | Yes | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. | 1 minute |
_gat_gtag_UA__<container-id> | Yes | Set by Google to distinguish users. | 1 minute |
yt-remote-device-id | Yes | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | never |
yt.innertube::requests | Yes | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never |
yt.innertube::nextId | Yes | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | never |
yt-remote-connected-devices | Yes | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | never |
CONSENT | Yes | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | 2 years |
YSC | Yes | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | session |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Yes | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 5 months 27 days |
test_cookie | Yes | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes |
IDE | Yes | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. | 1 year 24 days |
_fbp | Yes | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. | 3 months |
fr | Yes | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 3 months |
mc | Yes | Quantcast set this cookie for remarketing and modelling digital advertising | 13 months |
d | Yes | Quantcast set this cookie for remarketing and modelling digital advertising and references the cookie mc's membership in remarketing segments and information about third-party partners of Quantcast, such as advertising exchanges | 13 months |
Third party access to the cookies
Dewynters Ltd, who provide advertising services for us, have access to the cookies.
The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.
How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please send an email to [email protected] write to 6th Floor, Charlotte Building, 17 Gresse Street, London, W1T 1QL or call 020 7287 7612
Policy effective date: 22/04/2022
