Cookies

What do I need to know about cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that’s stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. We use them to:

Remember your preferences
Tailor our sites to your interests.
There are different types of cookies

First party cookies

These are set by the website you’re visiting. And only that website can read them.  In addition, a website might use a separate company to analyse how people are using their site. And this separate company will set their own cookie to do this.

Third party cookies

These are set by someone other than the owner of the website you’re visiting.

Some jembynews  web pages may also contain content from other sites like YouTube or Flickr, which may set their own cookies. Also, if you Share a link to a BBC page, the service you share it on (e.g. Facebook) may set a cookie on your browser.

The jembynews blog has no control over third party cookies.

Advertising cookies

Some websites use advertising networks to show you specially targeted adverts when you visit. These networks may also be able to track your browsing across different sites.


Session cookies

These are stored while you’re browsing. They get deleted from your device when you close your browser e.g. Internet Explorer or Safari.

Persistent cookies

These are saved on your computer. So they don’t get deleted when you close your browser.

We use persistent cookies when we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session. For example, we use them to remember your preferences for the next time you visit.



Other tracking technologies

Some sites use things like web beacons, clear GIFs, page tags and web bugs to understand how people are using them and target advertising at people.

They usually take the form of a small, transparent image, which is embedded in a web page or email. They work with cookies and capture data like your IP address, when you viewed the page or email, what device you were using and where you were.

How does the jembynews use cookies?

We use different types of cookies for different things, such as:

Analysing how you use the jembynews
Giving you a better, more personalised experience
Recognising when you’ve signed in
Giving people outside Nigeria  the international version of the jembynews  website (which has adverts).

Strictly Necessary cookies

These cookies let you use all the different parts of bbc.co.uk. Without them services that you have asked for cannot be provided.

Some examples of how we use these cookies are:

Signing into the jembynews
Remembering previous actions such as text entered into a registration form when navigating back to a page in the same session
Remembering security settings which restrict access to certain content e.g. to help with parental control choices.
Functional cookies

These help us personalise the jembynews  to you. For instance, remembering your preferences and settings so if you set a location on the jembynews  homepage, we’ll remember it using functional cookies and use it to give you local news and weather. They also remember your choice of playlist and favourites and help fulfil requests by you such as commenting on a blog.

Some examples of these cookies are:

Flash cookies, which are stored on your hard drive, not your browser. These are useful for things like pausing a programme on iPlayer and then later picking up where you left off.
Remembering if you visited the website before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you
Remembering settings applied to the website such as colour, font size and layout.
Performance cookies

These help us understand how people are using the BBC online, so we can make it better. And they let us try out different ideas.
We sometimes get other companies to analyse how people are using the BBC online. These companies may set their own performance cookies You can opt out of these cookies here.

Some examples of how we use these cookies are:

To collect information about which web pages visitors go to most often so we can improve the online experience
Error management to make sure that the website is working properly
Testing designs to help improve the look and feel of the website.

What happens if third party cookies are disabled on my browser?

Page updated: 5/1/2018

If third-party cookies are disabled on your browser, some features on the jembynews  may not work quite as you'd expect.

This is because, like anything you sign in to, your jembynews  account relies on cookies to provide some services like personalisation.

If your browser is blocking third-party cookies, some of these features can't work properly so you may experience problems with your jembynews account.

We're working on a way of solving this problem. In the meantime, if you’ve chosen to block third-party cookies on your browser and want to avoid problems using your jembynews account.

This won't affect your privacy settings on other websites and services you use.