Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your PC, tablet, mobile or other web enabled device when you visit the MumsMeetUp web application. They are not harmful and do not contain any confidential information such as your home address, date of birth or credit card details.

Cookies are an essential part of how our web application works. Some of these cookies are required by us to enable you to sign up and sign in to your membership with us whilst others enable us to give you an enhanced, personalised user experience.

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".

We also use cookies To allow you to securely sign in to your MumsMeetUp membership account, so that you can use our membership features such as create a profile and send private messages.

Yes, the information stored in cookies is safe and anonymous. They do not contain any information which could personally identify you and your membership account security is never compromised. You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

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".

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site.

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.

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of our website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
_cfduid mumsmeetup.com Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. 29 days HTTP Cookie
CookieConsent Cookiebot Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. 1 year HTTP
local_storage_support_test Twitter The cookie is used in context with the local-storage function in the browser. This function allows the website to load faster by pre-loading certain procedures. Persistent HTML Local Storage
Preference Cookies

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
lang Twitter Remembers the user's selected language version of a website 1 day HTTP
Statistical Cookies
Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
CookieConsent mumsmeetup.com Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. 1 year HTTP Cookie
Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
_gads Google Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. 1 year HTTP Cookie
__widgetsettings Twitter This cookie is set by Twitter - The cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile.. Persistent HTML Local Storage
awpv# [x2] Awin Zenaps Used by affiliate network Awin to record impressions, clicks and purchases via banner adverts on Our Site. 1 day HTTP Cookie
AWSESS [x2] Awin Zenaps Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. Session HTTP Cookie
goog_pem_mod Google Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. Persistent HTML Local Storage
google_experiment_mod# Google Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. Persistent HTML Local Storage
GoogleAdServingTest Google Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. Session HTTP Cookie
IDE Google Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website 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. 1 year HTTP Cookie
test_cookie Google Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. 1 day HTTP Cookie

We partner with Google Adsense and Google Doubleclick to display the advertising that partially pays for Our Site. For that to work effectively they will use cookies to store data and access data about your use of Our Site. You can learn more about how Google use this data and how to opt out if you choose at: Go to google.com

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Our Site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Our Site visitors based on their visit to Our Site and other sites on the Internet. You can opt out of the use of the DART cookie at: Go to google.com

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