So we can make improvements to our websites, take steps to ensure that our online advertising is cost effective, and provide you with content and ads that we think you’ll find interesting, our sites place cookies which are owned by third-party suppliers.
Further details about the main suppliers that we use and links to their privacy information is provided below:
Google
We use Google’s Marketing Platform cookies so that we can measure the impact of our digital advertising campaigns. This helps us to ensure that the money we spend on digital advertising is cost-effective. They also help us to serve adverts to people who have visited our websites and control the number of times that a website visitor sees an advert.
We use Google Analytics 360 (GA360) cookies to help us measure how visitors use our websites. This helps us to improve peoples’ experience of using our sites and measure the effectiveness of our digital advertising campaigns.
Read Google's privacy policy.
Facebook
We use Facebook cookies so we can deliver adverts to website visitors who have a Facebook account as well as find Facebook customers with similar interests to the people who visit our website. We also use Facebook cookies to measure the effectiveness of our Facebook ad campaigns which, in turn, helps ensure that we’re using our resources effectively. For more information about how we use Facebook’s advertising services, please visit our Privacy Policy.
Read Facebook's privacy policy.
Hotjar
Like GA360, Hotjar is an analytics tool which helps us to monitor how visitors are using our website which helps us to improve user experience and take steps to ensure that can easily find what they are looking for.
Read Hotjar's privacy policy.
You can find further information about the additional third-party cookies that we use by clicking on the links that are listed under 'Categories of cookies set by Macmillan'.
Finally, some of our pages also contain embedded content such as You Tube videos, Twitter feeds and the Twitter Follow Button, the Facebook Like Button or Google+ Share button. If you click on this content, you will receive cookies delivered from these websites.