Last updated: 28 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Megri.co.uk uses cookies and similar technologies on https://www.megri.co.uk (the Website), what they do and the choices available to you.
The Website is a free-to-access online publication built on WordPress. It does not currently operate an online shop or sell products, subscriptions or magazine issues through the Website.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise a device, remember choices, support security or collect information about how the website is used.
Cookies may be:
- session cookies, which normally expire when you close your browser; or
- persistent cookies, which remain for a stated period or until you delete them.
They may also be:
- first-party cookies, set by Megri.co.uk; or
- third-party cookies, set by another organisation whose service appears on the Website.
2. Similar technologies
Cookie rules may also apply to other technologies that store information on or access information from your device. These can include pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, software development kits, device identifiers, link decoration and certain fingerprinting techniques.
In this policy, “cookies” includes these similar technologies unless the context requires otherwise.
3. How we use cookies
Depending on the services active on the Website and your choices, cookies may be used for the categories below.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for core functions such as security, fraud prevention, network management, accessibility, load balancing and recording your privacy choices. The Website may not work correctly without them.
Where the law allows, strictly necessary cookies are used without consent. They are not used for unrelated advertising or tracking purposes.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies remember choices or provide a feature you request, such as language, display preferences or an embedded service.
Some functional technologies may qualify for a legal exception where their sole purpose is to provide a function requested by you. Others require consent, particularly where they involve a third party or are not necessary for the requested feature.
Analytics and statistical cookies
Analytics technologies can help us understand matters such as page visits, navigation, browser types, device types, referring sources and website performance.
Some limited statistical technologies may be used without consent where the applicable legal conditions are satisfied. This means that they must be used only to improve the Website or service, produce aggregate statistical information that does not identify individuals, and provide a simple way to object.
Where analytics track or profile individual visitors, follow them across services, retain identifiable individual-level information or do not meet the legal exception, they will be used only after valid consent where required.
Advertising and targeting cookies
Advertising cookies may be used to select, deliver, limit or measure advertising, create interest profiles or track activity across websites and services.
Advertising, profiling and cross-service tracking technologies require consent where applicable. They should remain disabled unless and until you choose to accept them.
Social media and embedded-content cookies
Articles may include content supplied by services such as video, audio, maps or social-media platforms. These providers may place cookies or collect device and usage information when their content loads or when you interact with it.
Where consent is required, the embedded service should remain blocked until you accept the relevant category. If you activate it, the third party may process information under its own terms and privacy policy.
4. Cookies currently used
The cookies and similar technologies currently used on this Website, including their providers, purposes and durations, are listed in our Cookie Settings panel.
You can review and manage these technologies at any time by selecting the Cookie Settings link in the Website footer.
5. Your cookie choices
When you first visit the Website, you should be shown a cookie control that allows you to:
- accept optional cookies;
- reject optional cookies; or
- make a more detailed choice by category.
Optional cookies should not be activated before your choice where consent is legally required. Consent must involve a clear positive action. Silence, continued browsing or a pre-ticked box will not be treated as valid consent.
Rejecting optional cookies should be as easy as accepting them. Your access to ordinary editorial content should not depend on accepting unnecessary tracking technologies.
6. Changing or withdrawing your choice
You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through the permanent Cookie Settings link displayed on the Website.
Withdrawing consent does not make earlier processing unlawful, but it should prevent the relevant optional technologies from being used in the future. Some previously stored cookies may remain until they expire or you delete them through your browser, although we will stop accessing or using them where required.
If a technology is used under a statistical or another legal exception rather than consent, the Website should provide the simple objection mechanism required for that exception.
7. Browser controls
Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies and control how websites use them. Your browser may allow you to:
- delete existing cookies;
- block all cookies;
- block third-party cookies;
- clear cookies when the browser closes; or
- use a private-browsing mode.
Blocking every cookie may affect Website security, preferences, embedded content or other functionality. Browser controls do not necessarily prevent every similar technology, so the Website’s Cookie Settings should also be used where available.
8. Third-party services
Third-party providers control cookies and technologies placed through their services. Their practices, cookie names and retention periods may change independently of Megri.co.uk.
Before enabling a third-party service, we aim to assess its purpose, data use, cookie behaviour, retention, international transfers and contractual terms. Where appropriate, the relevant provider should be named in the live cookie inventory, and a link should be provided to its privacy or cookie information.
Following a link from an article to an external website does not normally place that external website’s cookies through Megri.co.uk. Once you visit the external website, its own cookie and privacy terms apply.
9. Personal information collected through cookies
Information collected through cookies may include an IP address, device or browser information, cookie identifier, approximate location, referring source, pages viewed, interactions and consent choices.
Where this information identifies or can reasonably be linked to a person, it is personal information and will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law.
10. Legal basis
The storage of or access to information on a user’s device is governed primarily by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, as amended.
We rely on consent where the law requires it for optional cookies or similar technologies. We may use a permitted exception for strictly necessary technologies, certain requested functionality or qualifying statistical purposes where all applicable conditions are met.
Where cookie-related information is personal information, we also identify a lawful basis under the UK GDPR. Depending on the activity, this will normally be consent, legitimate interests or legal obligation. A UK GDPR lawful basis does not remove the need for consent where the electronic-communications rules require consent.
11. How long cookies last
We should not retain cookies or cookie-derived information for longer than necessary for the stated purpose.
The duration of each cookie should appear in the live cookie inventory. Session cookies normally expire when the browser closes. Persistent cookies expire after their stated period unless you delete them sooner.
Consent choices will be reviewed and refreshed at appropriate intervals and whenever a material change affects what users previously agreed to.
12. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this policy when technologies, providers, legal requirements or our Website practices change. The latest version will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
If a change materially affects existing consent, we will request a new choice where required.
13. Contact us
Questions or concerns about cookies may be sent to:
Legal Adviser, Megri.co.uk
133 Creek Road
Greenwich
London SE8 3BU
United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07443 813 186
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Information is available at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.
