Privacy and cookies

We want to make ARKive easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as ‘cookies’. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to control cookies on a wide variety of browsers.

We use cookies on our site for measuring the use of services and to help deliver better services.

Cookies for measuring use of services

So the website is available when you want it and fast, we measure numbers and volumes of visitors, and to understand what visitors want to use and not to use, so we can improve the service you receive and archive what is not used.

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website or refer to Google Analytics privacy overview.

Cookies used to deliver specific services

Some sites such as Google maps and YouTube use cookies to help deliver better services, such as remembering where you were on a map.

You can find further details about your privacy from Twitter at https://twitter.com/privacy, ShareThis at http://sharethis.com/privacy-manifesto and AddThis at http://www.addthis.com/privacy.

If you have any questions regarding the use of cookies on ARKive, please contact us.