General Description

This cookie tool will help you understand who is using cookies to collect information from your device, for what purposes they use the information, and how you can control the use of cookies for non-essential activities.

Westgate supports the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (DAAC), and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA).

If you opt out of advertising cookies, you may still see Westgate ads on other sites, but those ads will not be customised by us or our service providers and we will continue to customise your experience on our website via our use of cookies you have not refused.

Alternatively, privacy settings in most browsers will allow you to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, have it notify you when you receive a new cookie, or disable cookies altogether. In addition, if you use our cookie tool to opt-out of certain cookies, your opt-out preferences will be remembered by placing a cookie on your device. It is therefore important that your browser is configured to accept cookies for your preferences to take effect. If you delete or clear your cookies, or if you change which web browser you are using, you will need to set your cookie preferences again.

Note that from time to time we are over-inclusive in which cookies are listed in the opt-out tool. For example, we do not use Facebook, Twitter or Google cookies in all regions.

For more information on our use of cookies, please visit the read our Terms and Conditions.

Essential Cookies

These cookies help us provide you with a better, more relevant website 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. If you decline this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

We won’t use our website or social media platforms to collect any personal information (such as your name, telephone number, email address) without your explicit consent to provide it to us. Cookies cannot capture this information.

Lifespan: Most cookies are session cookies (which are only active until you close your browser) or are cookies which are only active for one day. Some cookies are active for a longer time, ranging from 3 to 12 months. The cookies used to prevent fraud and maintain the security or our services are active for a maximum period of 24 months.

Performance and Functionality Cookies

We use Google Analytics to measure and evaluate our website traffic and understand user engagement with our webpages. Google Analytics uses cookies to analyse how visitors use our website, but does not store any personally identifiable information.

The cookies used by Google Analytics do track your Internet Protocol (IP) address. Every computer and device connected to the internet is assigned an IP address. IP addresses are usually assigned in country-based blocks and can often be used to identify the country, state and city from which a computer is connecting to the Internet. Because IP addresses need to be used by websites in order for the Internet to function, website owners have access to the IP addresses of their visitors regardless of whether or not they use Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses IP addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of where in the world their visitors come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). Google Analytics does not share actual IP address information with Google Analytics customers.

Should you wish to opt out of Google Analytics, you can do so here.

Lifespan: Most cookies are only active for one day. Some cookies are active for a longer time, ranging from 3 to 12 months.

Advertising Cookies

These cookies use information about your use of this and other websites and apps, your response to ads and emails, and to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and for analytics and optimization purposes. These types of ads are called "interest-based advertising" and will be shown to you outside the Westgate domain. If you want to opt out of the advertising cookies across all websites, go here.

Note that from time to time we are over-inclusive in which cookies are listed in the opt-out tool. For example, we do not use Facebook, Twitter or Google cookies in all regions.