Disclaimer and Cookies Policy

The information on this site is intended to be useful and informative for customers of and investors in Johnston Press plc and its subsidiaries. Johnston Press plc will use reasonable care to ensure that information is accurate at the time it is added on the site. Please note, however, that Johnston Press plc cannot guarantee the information is accurate and it shall not be liable for any losses or damage that anyone may suffer as a result of relying on this information. The information may be changed by Johnston Press plc at any time. Please also note that the contents of this web-site do not constitute an invitation to invest in shares of Johnston Press plc. Johnston Press plc assumes no responsibility for the contents of any other websites to which the Johnston Press plc website has links. The copyright in this web-site belongs to Johnston Press plc. All other intellectual property rights are reserved.

Johnston Press Plc, the publishers of your local newspaper & website, take great care to ensure that important matters such as compliance with the Privacy Regulations are properly managed.  We take our responsibilities for our customers’ personal information very seriously and work hard to safeguard your privacy at all times.

Our Cookie Policy

How Johnston Press Plc use cookies and what they are:

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.

What is a Flash Cookie?

This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) – a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.

Can I opt out of receiving cookies?

Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only “trusted” sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note – if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.

The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:

Revenue Science. (.revsci.net)

A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the ‘Your Online Choices’ website by clicking here.

Google Ads (.google.com)

Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the ‘Your Online Choices’ website by clicking here.

Webtrends/ Google Analytics (.webtrends.com / statse.webtrendslive.com)

This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.

Dart for Publishers (.doubleclick.net)

This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don’t just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.

ComScore (.scorecardsearch.com)

ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.

Local Targeting

Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.

Grapeshot (www.grapeshot-media.net/.grapeshot.co.uk)

We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.

Subscriptions Online (.subscriptionline.co.uk)

Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.

Add This (.addthis.com)

Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.

3rd Party Cookies

We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Mobile phone websites

We deploy a cookie called “viewfullsite” for the mobile phone websites. This cookie remembers a user’s preference to view content on their desktop and remains active for a period of 24 hours from the user setting their preference. After 24 hours it is automatically deleted.