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MumsMeetUp uses cookies to ensure that we provide the best possible online experience to our users and members. However, as part of our privacy and cookie policies, we require your consent to use them.

You can usually disable or control cookies in your web browser settings. For a full and detailed explanation of how to disable and control cookies from your browser, please Go to aboutcookies.org

It must be noted that if you choose not to consent to the use of cookies, your experience of our web application will be severely impaired and many integral aspects of our application, including (but not limited to) signing in to your membership account with us and using your membership with us, will not work at all.

When you visit Our Site we use our own and third party cookies to collect data such as your IP address, web browser type and version, as well as your operating system. We also collect a list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on Our Site, and the site you exit to. Please also read about third party cookies on Our Site below under the heading "Third Party Cookies".

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Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better online web application, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our web application.

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Third parties whose content appears on Our Site (e.g. banner adverts, videos or social media feeds) may use third-party Cookies, as detailed above. Please note that we do not control the activities of such third parties, nor the data that they collect and use themselves, and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such third parties.

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

To find out more about cookies and how to control them, please Go to aboutcookies.org or Go to allaboutcookies.org

For a full and detailed explanation of how we protect your privacy and data when you sign up to use our friendship service please Read our Privacy Policy