Cookie Policy

Last Updated November 2024

This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) is intended to inform you how we use “cookies” and similar technologies on our websites at www.cineworld.co.uk, www.cineworld.ie, www.cineworld.com and www.events.cineworld.co.uk and in our mobile applications (“Sites”) and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Sites. Please take a moment to read and understand this Cookie Policy. This Cookie Policy should also be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and our Online Terms of Use (which contain our Website Terms of Use).

If you access our Sites from the UK or the Channel Islands, ‘we’ means Cineworld Cinemas Limited, if you access our Sites from the Republic of Ireland ‘we’ means Adelphi-Carlton Limited. We are part of the same group and trade under the Cineworld brand to operate Cineworld Cinemas and the Sites.  Please see our Privacy Policy to find out more about us.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and similar technologies are very small text documents or pieces of code, which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website or use a mobile application, a computer asks your computer or mobile device for permission to store this file on your computer or mobile device and access information from it. Information gathered through cookies and similar technologies may include the date and time of visits and how you are using the particular website or mobile application. Cookies are used by us as part of our Sites and they are also used by some of our third party partners.

For more details on cookies and similar technologies please visit All About Cookies. For the purposes of the remaining sections of this Cookie Policy we will refer to all technologies using the above features as “cookies”.

CONSENT TO OUR USE OF COOKIES

By using any of the Sites you acknowledge that we may store and access essential cookies on your computer or other device. Necessary cookies are cookies which are essential for the operation of our Sites.

Further, where you give permission, we may also store and access certain non-essential cookies on your computer or other device. These cookies are not essential to the operation of our Sites but allow us to provide additional functionality or to gather additional information about your use of our Sites. You are not obliged to give consent to our use of non-essential cookies and we will not place such cookies until you have given your consent.

If you wish to block or delete cookies, or you would like to withdraw consent to our use of non-essential cookies, you can find out how to do so below.

WHAT DO WE DO WITH COOKIES?

Necessary Cookies

We use cookies where they are essential for the operation of the Sites, for example to remember that you are signed in to the Sites and to uniquely identify your browsing session on our Sites, which allows us to coordinate this information with data from our Sites server. Without these cookies, services that you have asked for, like booking tickets, cannot be provided.  Analytics Cookies

Analytics Cookies

We use “analytics” cookies. These, along with other information, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people using the Sites and which features of our Sites are most popular, whether you have visited before and the website that you visited prior to visiting our Sites. We use this information to improve the Sites. We do not generally store any information that you provide to us in an analytics cookie.

Display Adverts

We use these cookies to deliver adverts that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on our Sites and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited our Sites and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers so that they can make their advertising more relevant to you when you visit their websites (including social media sites). 

Social Media Cookies

We use cookies to personalise your interaction with social media, such as as X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and Google.  Such cookies recognise users of those social media sites when you view social media content on our Sites.  They also allow you to quickly share content across social media, through the use of simple ‘sharing’ buttons.

Our Sites also contains features that enable you to use your Facebook, Google and X accounts to sign in and create/maintain an account with us and to enable us to store your content. This involves the use of cookies.

Targeting Cookies

We use targeting cookies to help us to deliver our adverts including film adverts when you visit other websites, such as news websites. This is known as ‘retargeting’. This technique helps to ensure that the ads you receive are more relevant to you and your interests. These cookies help to measure the effectiveness of an ad (for example, by reporting whether you have clicked on it) and can also limit the number of times that you see an ad (for example, if you see it twice but don’t click on it, you may not see it again). These cookies are usually placed by advertising networks that we and other advertisers work with to deliver ads. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other ad networks to show you relevant ads.

We may use a third party partner Rokt to provide custom offers from other brands on our Sites. You can learn more about Rokt and learn how to opt-out of Rokt’s personalized brand offers by visiting www.rokt.com/privacy-policy or following the links within the ads displayed.

MORE INFORMATION

You can find more information about the individual cookies used in the Sites and the purposes for which they are used, within our cookies management tool here.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REFUSE, BLOCK OR DELETE COOKIES?

In order to use some parts of our Sites you will need to accept cookies. If you choose to withhold consent to our use of cookies, or you subsequently block or delete cookies, some aspects of our Sites may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our Sites. 

HOW TO MANAGE OR BLOCK COOKIES

In relation to the non-essential cookies that are used by the Sites, you can manage your cookie preferences by clicking here.

You can also block the use of cookies altogether by activating the relevant settings in your browser. For more information on cookie management and blocking or deleting cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies.

Last update: November 2024