Last updated: June 2024
Contact Details
- Postal address:
-
FAO Legal,
Music Publishers Association Limited,
3rd Floor,
107 Gray's Inn Road,
London,
England,
WC1X 8TZ - Email:
- [email protected]
- Telephone number:
- 020 3848 7410
Who we are
This Cookie Policy gives you information about how Music Publishers Association Limited (MPA, we, us, or our) uses cookies when you are accessing www.mpaonline.org.uk (Website).
Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website
What is a cookie
Cookies (also known as browser cookies or tracking cookies) are small, often encrypted, files of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer (if you agree). Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They are loaded when you access our Website. Our Website sends information to your browser which creates the text file (i.e., the cookie).
Types of cookies we use
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our Website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website and fill out online forms. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our Website.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Expiry |
| __sharethis_cookie_test__ | This cookie is essential for our Website to determine whether the browser accepts cookies. | Session |
| CookieConsent | This cookie is essential for our Website and stores your consent to use cookies. | 1 year |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is essential for our Website to preserve the user session state across page requests. | Session |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | This cookie is essential for our Website and is used for the purpose of content delivery and presentation (e.g., to keep the correct state of font, blog/picture slides, colour themes and other website settings). | Session |
| #-# | This is a targeting cookie used to track user’s across websites. | Session |
| iU5q-!O9@$ | This is a targeting cookie that registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session |
| LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | This is a targeting cookie used to track the user’s interaction with embedded content. | Session |
| LogsDatabaseV2:V#
||LogsRequestsStore |
This is a targeting cookie used to track user’s across websites. | Persistent |
| NID | This is a targeting cookie used to track user’s across websites. | 6 months |
| PREF | This is a targeting cookie that registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | 8 months |
| remote_sid | This is a targeting cookie necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. | Session |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | This is a targeting cookie used to track the user’s interaction with embedded content. | 1 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This is a targeting cookie used to track user’s across websites. | 180 days |
| YSC | This is a targeting cookie used to track user’s across websites. | Session |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_
ENTRY_KEY |
This is a targeting cookie used to track the user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
| YtIdbMeta#databases | This is a targeting cookie used to track the user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
| yt-remote-cast-available | This is a targeting cookie used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | This is a targeting cookie used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | This is a targeting cookie used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Persistent |
| yt-remote-device-id | This is a targeting cookie used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Persistent |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | This is a targeting cookie used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| yt-remote-session-app | This is a targeting cookie used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
| yt-remote-session-name | This is a targeting cookie used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
Third-party cookies
We use Google Analytics on our Website. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We use a number of third-party service providers on this Website, some of which may set cookies on your computer. For each providers’ privacy policies, please see the below links:
- Facebook: facebook.com/help
- Twitter: twitter.com/privacy
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Cookiebot: cookiebot.com/en/privacy-policy/
- Stripe.com: www.stripe.com/gb/privacy
You can choose which cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s) in the cookie banner. You can also choose to “Reject All” cookies.
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at [email protected].
Use of cookies
For more information about the cookies we use and how to change your cookie preferences, please see our Cookie Policy.