Other than general web statistics, the North Devon Focus never collects sensitive information and does not share any data we collect from emails, media releases or contact forms sent and will not: record anything personally identifiable to you. However certain information pages may include banners and direct links to other websites including 3rd Party links which may leave Browser Cookies which are now considered sudo-anonymized personal data under the GDPR.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

Cookies are essential for the website or a given functionality to work or if they aim to enhance the performance of the website

A number of our pages may use cookies to remember:

• your display preferences, such as contrast colour settings or font size
• to deliver relevant advertisements
  
• to inform any partner sites you came via our site as we may be rewarded if you become their customer. None of this information contains anything personally identifiable to you.
• if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site

Also, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.