Effective date: 4 October 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how LivingABC, operated by Mediawyse Ltd, uses cookies and similar technologies.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small files or pieces of information stored on or accessed from your device when you use a website.

Similar technologies may perform related functions such as recognising a device, remembering preferences or measuring website use.

2. How LivingABC may use cookies

The cookies and similar technologies used on LivingABC may fall into the following categories.

Strictly necessary technologies

These are required for the website or a service requested by you to operate correctly.

They may support website security, technical operation, session management, remembering cookie choices, form operation and services specifically requested by the user.

Where legally permitted, strictly necessary technologies do not require consent.

Analytics and performance technologies

These may help us understand which LivingABC pages are visited, how readers reach the site, which stories are most useful or popular, general usage patterns and technical website performance.

Where consent is legally required, these technologies will not be activated until the user has consented.

Functional technologies

These technologies may enable additional features or remember user choices.

Where they are not strictly necessary, consent will be obtained where required.

Advertising and social-media technologies

LivingABC may use embedded social content, advertising services or third-party tools that can place or access cookies or similar technologies.

Where consent is required for these technologies, they should not be activated before consent is obtained.

3. Consent

Where consent is required, LivingABC will aim to provide users with a clear choice.

Users should be able to accept non-essential cookies, reject non-essential cookies and change their preferences.

Simply continuing to browse LivingABC will not be treated as consent where affirmative consent is legally required.

Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent users from accessing ordinary LivingABC editorial content.

4. Email technologies

Emails sent by LivingABC may include technology that records information such as delivery, opens or interaction with links where supported by our email provider.

This information may help us understand email performance and improve The LivingABC Scoop.

Such processing will be handled in accordance with applicable privacy and electronic-communications requirements.

5. Third-party services

LivingABC uses or may use third-party technology providers to operate the website, newsletter, analytics, embedded media and related functionality.

These providers may use their own cookies or technologies when their services are enabled.

Their processing may also be governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.

6. Your browser settings

Most browsers allow users to view, block or delete cookies.

Blocking certain cookies may affect optional functions of LivingABC.

Browser controls do not replace any consent controls that LivingABC is legally required to provide.

7. Changes to technologies used

LivingABC will continue to develop, and the specific technologies used on the site may change.

We may update this Cookie Policy accordingly.

Where appropriate, the website's cookie-preference mechanism should provide more detailed information about technologies currently in use.

8. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy when our site, technology providers or legal obligations change.

The effective date at the top shows when the current version took effect.

9. Contact

LivingABC, operated by Mediawyse Ltd.

Email: connect@mediawyseni.com.