About ManchesterWide.com

Ray Kay - ManchesterWide.com

Hello, I’m Ray Kay, the owner of ManchesterWide.com, the arts, events and entertainment website for Manchester, England.

Manchester is a fantastic city and has lots to offer. With so much going on every week there is always something for everyone.

In January 2009, I developed ManchesterWide.com to help people make the most of their leisure time in Manchester and the Greater Manchester area. ManchesterWide.com is developing all the time. It has a popular and growing events listing as well as a series of area guides.

There is lots of information on ManchesterWide.com to help you, whether you live here, visit here or just want to find out more about this great city and the cities and towns that surround it.

ManchesterWide.com is not meant to be a comprehensive whats on guide or Manchester tourist guide – there are plenty of those already. Instead, I write about what I think are the best bits of Manchester and the events and entertainment that people living in and visiting Manchester will want to know about. It is as simple as that!

Welcome to ManchesterWide.com.

We have updated our privacy policy for ManchesterWide.com

At ManchesterWide.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit ManchesterWide.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on ManchesterWide.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Whalley Range kebabs to someone in Manchester, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies

We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Cheetham Hill, you may see Cheetham Hill hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

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