How we use cookies

We use cookies to make life easier. Yours and ours. Cookies help us to improve your experience across our website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your browser. They tell us about the how you use our website but they don’t contain any personal information about you. Promise.

We use them to see who is visiting our website, how long they stay for and what they look at. Pretty standard stuff.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work. It’s your call.

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Remembering your search settings

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than by not using our site, but you don’t want to do that. We’ve spent loads of time making it nice for you.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

  • Vimeo
  • Google Analytics
  • Microsoft Clarity

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Anonymous visitor statistics cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend. We use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to compile this data.

Cookies from other companies & social networking websites

During your visit to the site you may notice some cookies that are not related to Ride Shotgun. This happens when you visit a page with content embedded from a third party (e.g. YouTube videos) or use some of the links to social networking sites (e.g. Share This). These websites may place cookies on your computer. Ride Shotgun does not control how a third party uses their cookies. You should check these third party websites’ privacy policies for more information about their cookies if you are concerned about this.

Turning cookies off

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer or stop future cookies then look at www.allaboutcookies.org

Removing and disabling cookies

If you do not wish to accept cookies on to your machine you can disable them by adjusting the settings on your browser. However, this will affect the functionality of the websites you visit. For more help on how to disable your cookies or delete them visit www.aboutcookies.org