A new law on cookies demands that you, as a website user, are given the opportunity to understand how cookies are used on our websites and consent to cookies being stored on your computer.

By using the carpetbagging.co.uk website you’re confirming that you’re happy to accept our use of cookies. Here you can find out more about how we use them.

Cookies are small files placed on your computer’s hard drive or in your browser memory when you visit a website. Cookies help to make the interaction between users and websites faster and easier.

These cookies help us to modify the site's appearance based on your preferences and to record usage statistics like what countries our visitors are coming from. We also sometimes earn a small commission from the companies we work with and this helps to pay the costs of keeping the website operational. To do this a cookie is placed onto your computer when you visit a company from our website and if you then go on to buy something, the cookie identifies you as having come from our site and we earn our commission and this can sometimes lead to us getting exclusive offers for you as companies can identify that visitors have come from carpetbagging.co.uk. It's also important to note that not everyone pays us a commission and many companies we discuss we have zero commercial relationships with.

What cookies don't do is store any personal or confidential information about you.

Cookies are small text files. They can’t look into your computer or read any personal information or other material on your hard drive. Cookies can’t carry viruses or install anything harmful on your computer.

If you want to delete or block our cookies you can do so using your browser's settings. If you would like detailed instructions as to how to do this we recommend you take a look at the guides at AboutCookies.org

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

This site uses cookies to record the preferences of visitors, to enable us to optimize the design of our web site. Cookies are small files which are stored on your hard drive. They ease navigation, and increase the user-friendliness of a web site. Cookies also help us to identify the most popular sections of our web site. This enables us to provide content that is more accurately suited to your needs, and in so doing improve our service.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by setting your browser to not accept cookies. The exact instructions for this can be found in the manual for your browser or at. You can delete cookies already on your hard drive at any time. If you choose not to accept cookies, you can still visit our website however this may result in a reduced availability of the services provided by our web site.

Carpetbagging.co.uk does not collect or use for commercial purposes, personal information such as names or addresses when you visit the site. If, however, you contact us by email, we will retain and use your email address solely to reply to your contact and for no other purpose. If you choose to provide other personal information such as your name and address, that information will only be used to fulfil your request for information.

We do, however, use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

We also publish Google Adsense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour across the web using cookies. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser using Google's Ads Preference Manager, available at: www.google.com/ads/preferences/.  You can opt-out of the Adsense partner network cookie at: www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. However, this opt-out mechanism uses a cookie, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in available at: www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.

DoubleClick DART Cookie - Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.  Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.  Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on carpetbagging.co.uk. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to our website and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our  3^rd party advertising partners or service suppliers may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our partners include:- Google Adsense, Affiliate Window, Webgains, Commission Junction, Affiliat Future,OMG, Silvertap, Affinet and Tradedoubler.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear carpetbagging.co.uk sent directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see. We have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. carpetbagging.co.uk privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.