Cookies contain bits of data that websites such as ours place on your computer’s hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site and help websites operate more efficiently.

Our Use of Cookies

MapSpace uses cookies in a number of ways all with the aim of optimising our website and improving your experience. Cookies help us estimate our audience size, determine usage patterns and help us better target content and ads based on our users’ interests.

We also use cookies so you can:

• automatically access your previously stored MapSpace account information
• interact with other members of the MapSpace community either by article comments or on the boards

You have the option of not accepting the cookies we set. However, if you reject our cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of most of the features on our site including the ones mentioned above.

The Cookies Set by our Partners and Other Data Processors

We have several partners who also set cookies on our pages. These partners include companies that help us better understand how to serve you and companies that require cookies for their social applications to work. They include:

Partner	Purpose	Category
Google	We use Google reporting tools and these cookies are used to measure site traffic and usage patterns.	Performance
Twitter	Twitter uses cookies to remember who you are, so Tweet buttons on articles work correctly.	Functionality

 Partner Purpose Category

Google We use Google reporting tools and these cookies are used to measure site traffic and usage patterns. Performance

Twitter Twitter uses cookies to remember who you are, so Tweet buttons on articles work correctly. Functionality

 In addition to the cookies set directly by our partners, there may also be cookies set by third parties to help deliver and monitor their ads. Please note we neither control nor have access to those cookies, and these advertisers' uses of cookies are subject to their own privacy policies and not that of MapSpace.

If you follow these links from our site to theirs, you should be aware that these other sites have their own privacy and data processing practices. MapSpace has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding a site and its privacy policies including its use of cookies, check that site.

 Cookie Removal and More Information

You can always modify your browser so as not to accept cookies or to notify you when cookies are sent to it. For more information about cookies including removing any or all of your cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Also, if you would like to remove the Google Analytics cookie, please go to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You should be aware that this will affect your Google cookies on all sites, and not just ours.