Cookies Policy

This Cookies’ Policy applies to websites and online pages operated by Love Productions relating to The Great British Bake Off, An Extra Slice and other related programming (collectively the “Programme”) including without limitation the website with domain name: www.thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk (the “Website”) and/or any account or pages created and/or operated by Love Productions Ltd on online platforms such as twitter.com, facebook.com and instagram.com using #GBBO, @BritishBakeOff and/or #ExtraSlice or on any Programme-related pages (the “Love Pages(s)”). The Website and Love Pages are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “GBBO Site(s)”.

COOKIES AND HOW THEY BENEFIT YOU

The GBBO Sites use cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience possible. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome or Firefox) then sends these cookies back to the website or app each time you visit so that the website or app can remember personalised details or your user preferences. That way they help make your experience of the GBBO Sites better.

Cookies come in two forms: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies only last for the time you are browsing the website or application and then they vanish when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device after you close the browser and are activated each time you visit the website or app you got the cookie from.

Our cookies help us to:

make the GBBO Sites work as intended by us;
save you having to login every time you visit the GBBO sites;
improve the speed/security of the GBBO sites;
continuously improve the GBBO sites for you;
determine if you are logged in to any of the GBBO sites or not.

What Kinds of Cookies Do We Use

We and other third parties use the following types of cookies when you browse the GBBO Sites:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: these cookies are essential to enable our websites and apps to run and to keep them secure.
Performance/Analytics Cookies: these cookies help us to understand how people use our websites or apps. Switching off these cookies will mean we can’t gather information to improve your browsing experience.
Advertising Cookies: these cookies help us to learn what you’re interested in so we can show you relevant adverts on other websites. Switching off these cookies will mean we can’t show you any personalised adverts.
Functional Cookies: these cookies help us to personalise our website or app by remembering your preferences and settings. Switching off these cookies will mean that some areas of our website are unable to function properly.

We do not use cookies to:

collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission);
pass personally identifiable data to third parties.

HOW TO CONTROL YOUR COOKIES

You can manage cookies for each of the main browsers by clicking on the relevant link below:

We use Google Analytics and you can use Google’s Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on if you want to prevent Google Analytics from using your data.

You can also find out more about cookies at About Cookies or at The Information Commissioner’s Office.

WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE

Below is a full list of the cookies we use:

Last updated August 2023

Name	Domain	Purpose	Expiry	Category
__cfduid	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This cookie is used to help the system which ensure fast page loading (Cloudflare).	30minutes	Strictly Necessary Cookie
OptanonAlertBoxClosed	cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com	This cookie is set by websites using cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down.	365 days	Strictly Necessary Cookie
OptanonConsent	cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com	This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores your preference about all the other cookies	365 days	Strictly Necessary Cookie
__atrfs	s7.addthis.com	This cookie is set and owned by Addthis. AddThis enables visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks.	session	Functional Cookie
fbsr_172525162793917	connect.facebook.net	This cookie is set and owned by Facebook and allows the site to use Facebook integration	60 days	Functional Cookie
xtc	addthis.com	This cookie is set and owned by Addthis. AddThis enables visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks.	396 days	Functional Cookie
__atuvc	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This cookie is set and owned by Addthis. AddThis enables visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks.	396 days	Functional Cookie
__atuvs	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This cookie is set and owned by Addthis. AddThis enables visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks.	30 minutes	Functional Cookie
loc	addthis.com	Stores the visitors geolocation to record location of sharer for AddThis	396 days	Functional Cookie
uvc	addthis.com	Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis	396 days	Functional Cookie
GPS	youtube.com	This cookie is set by YouTube (Google), and collects data on the videos shown on the site.	session	Performance/Analytics Cookie
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	youtube.com	This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos	180 days	Performance/Analytics Cookie
YSC	youtube.com	This cookie is set by YouTube (Google), and collects data on the videos shown on the site.	session	Performance/Analytics Cookie
__utma	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables Love Productions to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance.	730 days	Performance/Analytics Cookie
__utmb	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables Love Productions to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance.	30 minutes	Performance/Analytics Cookie
__utmc	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables Love Productions to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance.	session	Performance/Analytics Cookie
__utmt	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It is used to throttle the request rate for the service – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.	10 minutes	Performance/Analytics Cookie
__utmz	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables Love Productions to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance.	182 days	Performance/Analytics Cookie
_ga	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics.This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.	730 days	Performance/Analytics Cookie
_gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, and help identifies the site to Google.	10 minutes	Performance/Analytics Cookie
_gid	thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores information about the pages visited in a session.	1 minute	Performance/Analytics Cookie
IDE	doubleclick.net	This cookie is set by Doubleclick (Google), and collects data on the adverts shown on the site.	390 days	Advertising Cookie
NID	google.com	This cookie is set by Doubleclick (Google), and collects data on the use of Google products on the site	183 days	Advertising Cookie
test_cookie	doubleclick.net	This cookie is set by Doubleclick (Google), and collects data on the adverts shown on the site.	session	Advertising Cookie