Cookie Policy
Cookies Policy (Children)
Last Updated: 5th February 2025
Hello!
Welcome to our Cookie Policy page. This is where we explain how we use cookies on our website, RoaldDahl.com (our “website"). It's important to read this along with our Children's Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, store, use, and share your personal information. It also tells you about your rights and how you can contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
Who We Are
Our website is run by The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited ("we", "us", "our"). We're a company based in England and Wales. Our office is at 30 Berners Street, London, W1T 3LR.
What Are Cookies?
We use cookies to make your visit to our website more enjoyable.
These kind of cookies aren’t ones that you can eat! They are a small file with letters and numbers that we store on your computer, tablet or phone, if you agree to this. These cookies contain information that helps us remember your visit.
Cookies are used to make websites work properly. They also help website owners manage their website better. Without some cookies, parts of the website might not work.
If you want to learn more about cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org. These websites explain how cookies work and how you can control them.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use different kinds of cookies to make our website work well for you.
The cookies we use on our website are all Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are needed for our website to work. They let you move around the website and use things on the website. Without these, our website won't work properly.
You can find more details about the cookies we use and why we use them below:
Cookie name: rdsc-visitor
Purpose: To remember your chosen website experience/user age-category.
Expiry date: 12 hours
Vimeo cookies
We also embed Vimeo videos on our website. We have applied the “Do Not Track” feature which means that if you choose to play a video on the website, we embed only the below cookies which are essential for secure operation of the player:
Cookie name: _cf_bm; Purpose: Cloudflare bot manager, manages incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots; Expiry date: 30 minutes
Cookie name: _cfuvid; Purpose: Cloudflare cookie used to enforce rate limiting rules; Expiry date: Session
Cookie name: cf_clearance; Purpose: Cloudflare cookie used for bot prevention; Expiry date: 1 year
Cookie name: player_clearance; Purpose: Vimeo cookie used for bot prevention; Expiry date: 7 days
For more information, see Vimeo Player Cookies.
Blocking or Deleting Cookies
You can control cookies by changing the settings on your browser to block some or all cookies. You can also delete cookies using your browser settings. If you use different computers or mobile devices, you'll need to adjust the cookie settings on each one.
If you block or delete strictly necessary cookies, some parts of our website might not work.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please send us an email at contact@roalddahl.com.
Cookies Policy (Adult)
Last updated: 5th February 2025
Introduction
Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website, RoaldDahl.com ("our site"). This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
Who We Are
Our site is operated by The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited ("we", “us”, “our”). We are a company limited by shares and registered in England and Wales under company number 11099347 and have our registered office at 30 Berners Street, London, W1T 3LR. Our VAT number is 284905864
Cookies
We use cookies to help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, if you agree to this. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, and to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website (and any third parties they work with) and to manage elements of their business. Without certain cookies, some areas and functionalities of a website will not work.
If you would like to find out more about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org, which explain how cookies work and how you can manage their use.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site to enable you to move around our site and use its features. Without these cookies our site does not work properly.
Analytical or performance cookies. These cookies help us understand how many people visit our website and how they navigate through it. This information helps us make the website better, ensuring that visitors can find what they need easily. The data collected by these cookies is combined and anonymous, so it doesn't identify you personally. If you disable these cookies, we won't know when you visit our site and won't be able to track how well it's performing.
Functionality cookies. These allow the website to offer better features and personalisation. These cookies can be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we use on our site. If you disable these cookies, some or all of these features may not work correctly.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:
Strictly necessary cookies
Cookie name: rdsc-cookiebar; Purpose: To remember your cookie banner preferences; Expiry date: 12 hours
Cookie name: rdsc-visitor; Purpose: To remember your chosen site experience/user age-category; Expiry date: 12 hours
Analytical cookies
Cookie name: _ga (Google Analytics, GA4); Purpose: To track how visitors interact with our site - used to distinguish users; Expiry date: 2 years
Cookie name: _ga_<container-id> (Google Analytics, GA4); Purpose: To track how visitors interact with our site - used to persist session state; Expiry date: 2 years
Functional cookies
Cookie name: lpformX (Dotdigital, HTML5 local storage-based); Purpose: Enables someone filling in a form to save their progress so they can return to complete the form at later date; Expiry date: HTML5 prevents application developers from specifying expiration; individual web browsers can define expiration policies.
Third party cookies
Please note that the following third parties also set cookies on our website. These named third parties may include, for example, providers of external services like video playing services.
Vimeo (Embedded Player)
We embed Vimeo videos on our site. We have applied the “Do Not Track” feature which means that if you choose to play a video on the website, we embed only the below cookies which are essential for secure operation of the player:
Cookie name: _cf_bm; Purpose: Cloudflare bot manager, manages incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots; Expiry date: 30 minutes
Cookie name: _cfuvid; Purpose: Cloudflare cookie used to enforce rate limiting rules; Expiry date: Session
Cookie name: cf_clearance; Purpose: Cloudflare cookie used for bot prevention; Expiry date: 1 year
Cookie name: player_clearance; Purpose: Vimeo cookie used for bot prevention; Expiry date: 7 days
For more information, see Vimeo Player Cookies.
Dotdigital (Email Sign-Up and Surveys)
Dotdigital provides embedded email sign-up forms and surveys.
Dotdigital sets the following functional cookies:
Cookie name: Survey-X; Purpose: Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete; Expiry date: 365 days after first view of the survey.
Cookie name: respondentidX; Purpose: Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete; Expiry date: 30 days after the first view of the survey.
Cookie name: responder-X; Purpose: Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete; Expiry date: N/A - is a session cookie
Cookie name: responderidXcount; Purpose: A counter to stop users filling in the same form in a second time and overwriting any previous submissions; Expiry date: N/A - is a session cookie
Cookie name: Survey-Started-X; Purpose: Tracks and identifies a respondent as they answer the survey and records when the survey is complete; Expiry date: 365 days after first view of the survey.
Blocking or deleting cookies
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You can also delete cookies by selecting the appropriate option in your browser settings. If you use different computers or mobile devices in different locations you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
You can also choose to reject optional cookies in our cookie banner.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please send us an email at contact@roalddahl.com.