We use cookies and similar tools across the site to improve its performance and enhance your user experience. This policy explains how we do that.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which a site may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the site, or another site, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

There are many functions cookies serve. For example, they can help to remember usernames and preferences analyse how well a site is performing, or even allow a site to recommend content it believes will be most relevant to you.

Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click to “save login” when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use a site, or a user’s general location.

What sort of cookies do we use?

Generally, our cookies perform up to three different functions:

1. 1. Essential cookies

      Some cookies are essential for the operation of the site. Also some cookies allow us to identify registered users and ensure they can access restricted pages. If a user opts to disable these cookies, the user will not be able to access all of the content that the status of their account entitles them to.

   2. Performance Cookies

      We may utilise the same or other cookies to analyse how you use the site, to record your visits to the site and the pages you have visited, and to record the links you have followed. Among other aims, this allows is to customise our offering to recurring visitors and to optimise navigational paths.

   3. Settings Cookies

      We use settings cookies to allow us to remember certain choices you have made. For example, you can be automatically redirected to the language in which you last browsed, automatically logged in when the site session expires or schedules can be displayed in the time zone previously reported by your browser.

Does anyone else use cookies?

Please note that third parties with whom we may work with and/or who may have presence on the site (including, for example, users of our forum, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to fall into the categories mentioned above.

Third party cookies

We don’t place third party advertising on our website, but we do allow third parties to set cookies on our website. These cookies are to support functionality of several third party applications which are being used on TheGroveCrit.com, such as Youtube embeddings in the forum, the ability to log in directly with you Facebook account and to support the placement of relevant banners about our offers, or news items which might be interesting for the user.

Please note: Disabling cookies might adversly affect your use of TheGroveCrit.com and several features will not be available at all or not function as intended. When disabling cookies, or opting out will affect not only your browsing experience on TheGroveCrit.com, but for all your web activity.

In certain cases, when opting out, this is done via a cookie, which prevents any further cookies being placed. This means, you might have to opt out again, if you manually delete all your browser cookies. Also, this means that opt out only works for your current browser and device. If you are using several browsers, or devices, you might have to opt out on any browser or computer or other device you are using.