VICE COOKIE POLICY

What is a cookie?

For more information about our use of Cookies via the Sites, please see our Cookie Policy VICE COOKIE POLICY.

A cookie is a text file (often including a unique identifier), which contains small amounts of information that are sent to your browser and stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device. As well as first party cookies there may also be "third-party cookies" included on our site, placed on your browser from, for example, from third party advertisers. You can control your consent to these cookies through the cookie consent tool here.

Whenever you are on our websites or apps, there may be "session cookies" and "persistent cookies" operating. Session cookies are temporary and only exist while you're browsing our sites, whereas "persistent cookies" will remain on your browser (for a specific period) and will be activated again when you return to one of our sites.

How do we use Cookies?

Cookies help us to improve our websites, apps and the services delivered to you and to commercialise them. Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users even if we don’t know your name or who you are from those cookies. Cookies are used to control the display of ads, track usage patterns, personalise our websites for you and collect information about our users as a whole. For details of the different categories, see section 5 below.

Certain cookies we use require your consent and others do not. We only ask your consent when legally required to do so.

But I am not on a VICE branded website?

Vice manages a network of different online publishers (the “Vice Digital Network” or “VDN”) on whose behalf we sell advertising space. This allows us to serve personalised ads to you on websites across the Vice Digital Network, with your consent.

In order to do this we will collect data via cookies from the websites across the Vice Digital Network; this may include information on your age, geographical location, gender, likes or dislikes and your browsing and clicking behaviour. However this information will only be used by or on behalf of Vice – it will not be shared with the publishers within the VICE Digital Network.

These are the types of cookies on VICE and VDN websites and apps:

Information, storage and access: these cookies enable the storage of information, or access to information that is already stored, on your device such as advertising identifiers, device identifiers, cookies, and similar technologies.

Personalisation: these cookies enable the collection and processing of information about your use of this service to subsequently personalise advertising and/or content for you in other contexts, such as on other websites or apps, over time. Typically, the content of the site or app is used to make inferences about your interests, which inform future selection of advertising and/or content.

Ad selection, delivery and reporting: these cookies enable the collection of information, and combination with previously collected information, to select and deliver advertisements for you, and to measure the delivery and effectiveness of such advertisements. This includes using previously collected information about your interests to select ads, processing data about what advertisements were shown, how often they were shown, when and where they were shown, and whether you took any action related to the advertisement, including for example clicking an ad or making a purchase. This does not include personalisation, which is the collection and processing of information about your use of this service to subsequently personalise advertising and/or content for you in other contexts, such as websites or apps, over time.

Content selection, delivery and reporting: these cookies enable the collection of information, and combination with previously collected information, to select and deliver content for you, and to measure the delivery and effectiveness of such content. This includes using previously collected information about your interests to select content, processing data about what content was shown, how often or how long it was shown, when and where it was shown, and whether the you took any action related to the content, including for example clicking on content. This does not include personalisation, which is the collection and processing of information about your use of this service to subsequently personalise content and/or advertising for you in other contexts, such as websites or apps, over time.

Measurement: these cookies enable the collection of information about your use of the content, and combination with previously collected information, used to measure, understand, and report on your usage of the service. This does not include personalisation, the collection of information about your use of this service to subsequently personalise content and/or advertising for you in other contexts, i.e. on other service, such as websites or apps, over time.

Essential: these cookies enable you to navigate the site or app and to use its services and features. Without these necessary cookies, the site or app will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to and we may not be able to provide the site or app or certain services or features.

For details about the specific vendors who operate these cookies, see here.

How to select and block cookies?

For UK and EU based individuals, we collect your consent up front to any installation of non-essential cookies. If you change your mind and want to change your consent settings at any time (whether to reject all or consent to some types of cookies), you can do so through our cookie preference center here. Remember that your consent settings are specific to the device and browser you are using.

You can also block cookies by selecting or deselecting certain types of cookie through your device/web browser that enables you to refuse the downloading of cookies. If you choose to not accept certain cookies, some interactive features of our websites may not work.

Any personal data we collect through cookies will be processed in accordance with our privacy policy which can be found here.