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Your privacy is a top priority for British Newspaper Archive. We are dedicated to looking after your Personal Information in a way you feel is 100% safe and secure, handling it in a responsible manner and complying with data protection laws. This website www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk is managed by Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited (FMP), a company registered in England and Wales no. SC375068, having its registered offices at The Glebe, 6 Chapel Place, Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3DQ.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. We use cookies to store certain information such as searches and to present personalised content.

How can I control my cookies?

Browser settings

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies and similar technologies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser settings to do the following:

  • Delete all cookies;
  • Block all cookies;
  • Allow all cookies;
  • Block third-party cookies;
  • Clear all cookies when you close the browser;
  • Open a 'private browsing' / 'incognito' session, which allows you to browse the internet without storing local data; and
  • Install add-ons and plug-ins to extend browser functionality.

For more information on controlling cookies using different browsers, see Browser Controls below.

More information

  • A number of websites provide detailed information on cookies, including AboutCookies.org and AllAboutCookies.org.
  • The Internet Advertising Bureau website Your Online Choices allows you to install opt-out cookies across different advertising networks.
  • Google has developed a browser add-on to allow users to opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites that use this popular analytics product.
  • New technologies such as Mozilla's Do Not Track allow you to tell websites not to track you.
  • Internet Explorer has a feature called Tracking Protection Lists which allows you to import a list of websites you want to block.

Type of Cookies

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

Necessary - These are cookies which are essential for our websites to run. They include for example, cookies that allow you to remain logged into our website. Without these cookies, parts of our websites would not function. These cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.

Functional – These cookies are used to remember your preferences on our websites and to provide enhanced, more personal features. Functional cookies do not track your internet usage or gather information which could be used for selling advertising, but they do help with serving advertising.

Analytical - Analytical performance cookies are used to monitor the performance of our websites, for example, to determine the number of page views and the number of unique users a website has. Web analytics services may be designed and operated by third parties. The information provided by these cookies allows us to analyse patterns of user behaviour. We use that information to enhance your user experience or to identify areas of the website that may require maintenance. The information may include your member key, which is an internal identifier for all users. The information is used only for statistical purposes and will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet use. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Advertising - These cookies, which may be placed on your device by us or our trusted third-party service providers, remember that you have visited a website and use that information to provide you with advertising which is tailored to your interests. This is often called online behavioural advertising (OBA) and is done by grouping together shared interests based upon web browsing history. Your web browsing history can be used to infer things about you (e.g. your age, gender etc.), and this information may also be used to make advertising on websites more relevant to you. Without these cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests. If you would like more information about OBA, including how to opt out of these cookies, see the section above, ‘How can I control my cookies’.

Where we associate personal information with necessary cookies, we process this information only for the purpose of our legitimate interest. Where we associate personal information with all other kinds of cookies, we process this information on the basis of your consent.

Browser Controls

The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable but, in general, the website may not operate properly if all cookies are switched off. If you only disable third party cookies, you will not be prevented from making purchases of subscriptions on our website. If you disable all cookies, you will be unable to complete a purchase of a subscription on our website.

If you want to disable cookies on our site, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below:

>For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”

2. Click on the “privacy” tab

3. Select the setting the appropriate setting

>For Google Chrome:

1. Choose Settings> Advanced

2. Under "Privacy and security," click “Content settings”.

3. Click “Cookies”

>For Safari:

1. Choose Preferences > Privacy

2. Click on “Remove all Website Data”

>For Mozilla firefox:

1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Options”

2. Click on the icon “privacy”

3. Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options

>For Opera 6.0 and further:

1. Choose the menu Files”> “Preferences”

2. Privacy

Where you have not set your permissions, we may also separately prompt you regarding our use of cookies on the Site.

Except for necessary cookies, all cookies used on our site will expire after 5 years.

The British Newspaper Archive Cookies

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them here:

Cookie name1st/3rd partyPersistencySourceTypePurpose
_atuvc 1st party 1 year AddThis Performance This cookie rembered the use of social media sharing buttons.
_atuvs 1st party Session AddThis Performance This cookie rembered the use of social media sharing buttons.
NID 3rd party Unknown Google Performance The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google's SafeSearch filter turned on.
_zlcmid 1st party 1 year Zopim Performance This cookie allows the user to continue using live chat as they navigate the site.
_ControllerTempData 1st party Session BNA Necessary This cookie is part of .NET framework, used for storing temporary data.
cookie_consent 1st party 1 year BNA Necessary This cookie stores the user's action on the cookie notification banner.
cookie_message 1st party Session BNA Necessary This cookie stores temporary user messages.
searchmodel0 1st party Session BNA Necessary This cookie stores the previous search made to prefill the search page.
session_0 1st party Session BNA Necessary This cookie is a .NET session cookie.
sessionid 1st party Session BNA Necessary This cookie is a .NET session cookie.
_cfduid 3rd party 1 year User voice Necessary The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in your web application, and does not store any personally identifiable information. This cookie is strictly necessary for Cloudflare's security features and cannot be turned off.
loc 3rd party 1 year addthis.com Advertising AddThis provides you with tools that collect information from visitors to your website or mobile device application. This information does not directly identify an individual and is instead designed to identify the devices used by your visitors. However, in certain circumstances, the visitor may opt to share their email address with AddThis to facilitate the services. These email addresses are not used for online behavioral advertising.
mus 3rd party 1 year addthis.com Advertising AddThis provides you with tools that collect information from visitors to your website or mobile device application.
uid 3rd party 1 year addthis.com Advertising AddThis provides you with tools that collect information from visitors to your website or mobile device application.
uvc 3rd party 1 year addthis.com Advertising AddThis provides you with tools that collect information from visitors to your website or mobile device application.
sess 3rd party Unknown adnxs.com Advertising The cookie plugs into other advertising serving platforms, such as Google's Doubleclick and Quantcast which provide behavioural targeting.
uuid2 3rd party Unknown adnxs.com Advertising The cookie plugs into other advertising serving platforms, such as Google's Doubleclick and Quantcast which provide behavioural targeting.
_uetsid 1st party 30 minutes Bing Advertising This cookie is used for Bing Universal Event Tracking.
MUID 3rd party 1 year Bing Advertising This cookie is used by Bing as a unique user ID.
MUIDB 3rd party 1 year Bing Advertising Unclassified
IDE 3rd party 2 years Doubleclick Advertising This cookie is used by Doubleclick to register and report the user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
test_cookie 3rd party Unknown Doubleclick Advertising This cookie is used by Doubleclick to register and report the user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
fr 3rd party 3 months Facebook Advertising This cookie is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
ASP.NET_SessionId 3rd party Unknown global.ib-ibi.com Advertising The cookie is used for tracking across domains.
ck 3rd party Unknown go.affec.tv Advertising Affectv provides technology services to advertisers that enable them to serve relevant online advertising to consumers who are browsing the internet.
oo 3rd party Unknown go.affec.tv Advertising Affectv provides technology services to advertisers that enable them to serve relevant online advertising to consumers who are browsing the internet.
pt 3rd party Unknown go.affec.tv Advertising Affectv provides technology services to advertisers that enable them to serve relevant online advertising to consumers who are browsing the internet.
1P_JAR 3rd party Unknown Google Advertising This cookie is used by Google
CONSENT 3rd party 20 years Google Advertising This cookie is used by Google
DV 3rd party Unknown Google Advertising This cookie is used by Google
dc_gtm_UA-XXXXX 1st party 1 minute Google Tag Manager/DCM Advertising This is a display features cookie
ASP.NET_SessionId 3rd party Unknown ibeu2.mookie1.com Advertising General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.
ibkukinet 3rd party Unknown ibeu2.mookie1.com Advertising This cookie is providing targeted online marketing services.
ibkukiuno 3rd party Unknown ibeu2.mookie1.com Advertising This cookie is providing targeted online marketing services.
bkdc 3rd party Unknown bluekai.com Analytics BlueKai Analytics
bku 3rd party Unknown bluekai.com Analytics BlueKai Analytics
_ga 1st party 2 years Google Analytics Analytics This cookie is used to distinguish users in Google Analytics.
_gat_UA-XXXX 1st party Unknown Google Analytics Analytics This cookie is used to distinguish users in Google Analytics.
_gid 1st party 24 hours Google Analytics Analytics This cookie is used to distinguish users in Google Analytics.
mp_super_properties 1st party Unknown mixpanel Analytics This cookie registers specific properties about a user.
ki_r 1st party 5 years Qualaroo Analytics The cookie stores document referrer for targeting.
ki_s 1st party 5 years Qualaroo Analytics The cookie stores the current state of any survey the user has viewed or interacted with.
ki_t 1st party 5 years Qualaroo Analytics The cookie stores timestamps & view counts.
ki_u 1st party 5 years Qualaroo Analytics The cookie is used to anonymous identity associated with survey responses.
Rats 3rd party 1 year Rats Analytics This cookie is used by out internal analytics tool.
Rats_Session 3rd party Session Rats Analytics This cookie is used by out internal analytics tool.
_uservoice_tz 1st party 90 days User voice Analytics This cookie is used to track the user's timezone.
_uvsid 1st party Session User voice Analytics This cookie is used to track whether user is logged in or not.
uvts 1st party Unknown User Voice Analytics This cookie is used to track user usage analytics.

Contact us

If you have any question or concerns, you can email privacy@britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.

The British Newspaper Archive's full privacy statement is available here.

Policy statement updated 8 May 2018.

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