Our website uses cookies, web beacons, and third-parties to provide you with services that support your activities within our online marketplace. To protect your privacy, use of these tools is limited. For more information on our privacy practices, see our Privacy Policy.

"Cookies" are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer. Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive once you end your session.

Gumtree uses cookies on certain pages of the website to:

• Provide information that is targeted to your interests.
• Promote and enforce trust and safety.
• Offer certain features that are only available through the use of cookies.
• Measure promotional effectiveness.
• Analyse our site traffic.

Cookies on Gumtree's discussion boards

Our third-party service providers for Gumtree's discussion boards use session cookies to facilitate conversation threads and overall service functions.

Cookies and search

If you enter a search term like "red fire engine" on the Gumtree Search page, you will see a line in the source code that reads "kw=red fire engine". The search term becomes the keyword, which allows the code to search Gumtree for the search term.

Your choices about cookies

We offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. You're always free to decline cookies if your browser permits. However, if you decline cookies, you may not be able to use certain features on the website. Learn how to set your browser to accept cookies .

A web beacon is an electronic image, called a single-pixel (1 x 1) or clear GIF placed in the web page code. Web beacons serve many of the same purposes as cookies. In addition, web bea cons are used to track the traffic patterns of users from one page to another in order to maximise web traffic flow.

We may work with other companies who place cookies or web beacons on our websites. These companies help operate our websites and provide you with additional products and services. They are subject to confidentiality agreements with Gumtree and other legal restrictions. Gumtree does not permit any of these companies to collect personal information using cookies or web beacons on our websites.

We use service providers who use cookies to help us deliver our own content and compile anonymous site metrics and analytics. We require these companies to use the information they collect only to provide us with these services under contract. For a complete and up-to-date listing of these services providers, please contact adops@gumtree.com

We participate in cookie-based exchanges. They uses cookies to collect anonymous information, which may be used to tailor the advertising you see on the Gumtree sites or elsewhere on the web, but we don¿t permit them to collect any personal information about you. For a complete listing of the cookie-based exchanges we participate in, contact: adops@gumtree.com

Visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.co.uk/ to learn more about these service providers their business practices and privacy policies, including how to decline participation in their program.

We don't permit third-party content on Gumtree (such as item listings) to include cookies or web beacons. If you believe a listing might be collecting personal information or using cookies, please report it to us.