Cookie Policy

Proper Records Ltd

We use cookies, web beacons and similar tracking technologies (“cookies“) on our website and in the context of our email correspondence (collectively referred to as the “website”) and this cookie policy (“Cookie policy”) explains how we use cookies when you visit our website and otherwise interact with us on the basis of our email correspondence.

Some of the cookies that are used on our website will collect data that can be directly or indirectly related to you as an individual (i.e. personal data), while other activities on this website are logged only on an aggregated level.

For more information regarding the processing of your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a text file placed on your device, e.g. computer, mobile device or tablet by web page servers when you visit websites.

We use session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.

· Session cookies are stored during the period there is an active session, i.e. during the period you use the website. Session cookies are normally deleted when you close your web browser.

· Persistent cookies are stored on your device until the set expiration date for each cookie or until you manually delete the cookie from your device.

The cookies used on our website will only be stored on your computer, mobile device or tablet during the period under which it is necessary in order to fulfil the purpose and the function with each cookie.

Web beacons are transparent images which may be included in e-mails sent to you.

Similar technologies are technologies that store information in your web browser or on your device in a similar way as cookies and web beacons.

2. Consent to our use of cookies
When you visit our website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies (by the use of a so called “cookie banner”).

Please note that consent is not required for use of cookies that are necessary for the operation of the website.

In your web browser settings you may choose to block the use of cookies, view what type of cookies that have been stored on your device and delete cookies stored on your device. However, if you block all cookies on our website, you may be unable to access certain areas of our website and certain functions and pages may not work as intended.

Different browsers make different controls available to you. Below you will find instructions on how to manage your cookie settings for some of the most common browsers. Please note that the providers of the browsers may change their cookie setting functions at any time.

· Google Chrome

· Internet Explorer

· Firefox

· Safari

· Safari Mobile

· Opera

3. Information about the cookies we use
We use cookies on our website to provide you with a good experience. Some cookies are technically necessary in order to provide the website and its functionality. We also use cookies to give you the best possible user experience, to produce anonymous statistics and to show you customised advertising.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies are essential in order to enable you to navigate on the website and use its features.

Preferences/functionality cookies

These cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, or what your user name and password are (as applicable) so you can automatically log in.

Statistics/Performance cookies

Statistics/Performance cookies are used to improve the service for website visitors.

This is done by way of analysing how our website visitors use the website and to monitor the website’s performance. This enables us to provide a high-quality experience by customising our offer, and identifying and fixing issues. For example, we may track which pages that are most popular and which method of linking between pages that is most effective.

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies (or targeting cookies) collect information about the browsing habits associated with your device and are used to make advertising more relevant to you. They are also used by third party services provided on the website, such as ‘Like’ or ‘Share’ buttons.

These third parties put down advertising cookies both when you visit the website, and when you use their services and navigate away from the website. No data collection takes place by Proper Music Group Ltd, but by the relevant social sharing provider, as soon as you click on the relevant icon. Their privacy practices are set out below:

· Facebook’s data use policy

· LinkedIn’s cookie policy

You can opt out of the advertising cookies set by these third parties here.

In the table below, you can read about which cookies we use on our website as well as the providers, purposes and retention periods of such cookies.

Category: Necessary

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

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER TYPE EXPIRY
_grecaptcha proper-records.co.uk HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
_GRECAPTCHA google.com HTTP 179 days
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
CONSENT google.com HTTP 2 years
Cookie purpose description: Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
CONSENT youtube.com HTTP 2 years
Cookie purpose description: Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
CONSENT youtube-nocookie.com HTTP 2 years
Cookie purpose description: Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
CookieConsent proper-records.co.uk HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
rc::a google.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
rc::b google.com HTML Session
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
rc::c google.com HTML Session
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
test_cookie doubleclick.net HTTP 1 day
Cookie purpose description: Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.

Category: Preferences

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.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER TYPE EXPIRY
loglevel open.spotify.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Maintains settings and outputs when using the Developer Tools Console on current session.

Category: Statistics

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER TYPE EXPIRY
__utm.gif google-analytics.com Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor’s browser and computer.
__utma proper-records.co.uk HTTP 399 days
Cookie purpose description: Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.
__utmb proper-records.co.uk HTTP 1 day
Cookie purpose description: Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
__utmc proper-records.co.uk HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
__utmt proper-records.co.uk HTTP 1 day
Cookie purpose description: Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.
__utmv proper-records.co.uk HTTP 1 day
Cookie purpose description: Saves user-defined tracking parameters for use in Google Analytics.
__utmz proper-records.co.uk HTTP 6 months
Cookie purpose description: Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics.

Category: Marketing

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.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER TYPE EXPIRY
_fbp proper-records.co.uk HTTP 3 months
Cookie purpose description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
_gcl_au proper-records.co.uk HTTP 3 months
Cookie purpose description: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
1/associates-ads/1/OP amazon-adsystem.com Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers.
1/associates-ads/1/OP/r/json amazon-adsystem.com Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers.
i/jot twitter.com Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers.
i/jot/embeds twitter.com Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers.
IDE doubleclick.net HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: 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.
pagead/1p-user-list/# google.com Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites.
pagead/landing doubleclick.net Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: 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.
pagead/landing google.com Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: 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.
r/collect doubleclick.net Pixel Session
Cookie purpose description: This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
RichHistory twitter.com HTML Session
Cookie purpose description: Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor.
sp_landing spotify.com HTTP 1 day
Cookie purpose description: Used to implement audio-content from Spotify on the website. Can also be used to register user interaction and preferences in context with audio-content – This can serve statistics and marketing purposes.
sp_t spotify.com HTTP 1 year
Cookie purpose description: Used to implement audio-content from Spotify on the website. Can also be used to register user interaction and preferences in context with audio-content – This can serve statistics and marketing purposes.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE youtube.com HTTP 179 days
Cookie purpose description: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
WIDGET::local::assignments soundcloud.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Used by audio-platform SoundCloud to implement, measure and improve their embedded content/service on the website – The collection of data also includes visitors’ interaction with embedded content/service. This can be used for statistics or marketing purposes.
YSC youtube.com HTTP Session
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt.innertube::nextId youtube-nocookie.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt.innertube::requests youtube-nocookie.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY youtube.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-cast-installed youtube.com HTML Session
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-connected-devices youtube.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-device-id youtube.com HTML Persistent
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-fast-check-period youtube.com HTML Session
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-session-app youtube.com HTML Session
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-session-name youtube.com HTML Session
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

4. Contact us
Should you have any questions regarding our use of cookies, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please see below for contact details.

Proper Records Ltd

Address:
1-5 Applegarth Dr,
Questor, Dartford DA1 1JD
United Kingdom

Email: ben.bowdler@propermusicgroup.com

Phone: +44 (0)20 8970 7343

We may update this policy from time to time. We recommend that you visit this page on a regular basis to get the latest information regarding the cookies we use on our website.

Last updated: 18 November 2022