What's a cookie?
A "cookie" is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system. If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Most Cookies require us to obtain your consent before we can place them on your computer, as such our website contains a cookie banner that allows you to review what cookies we use and to decide if you want to allow them or disable them. Once you have entered your preferences in the cookie banner you will then be taken to the website and only cookies that you have allowed will be placed on your computer
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
Cookie that we use that require your consent:
Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
Marketing and Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for things like Google Analytics.
Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer;
Cookies that are always enabled:
Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
What Cookies do we use on our website?
WEBSITE THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
We work with several third-party service providers to help us deliver, measure, and improve our advertising. You can manage these cookies with our cookie settings as well as tools provided by our services providers.
Google
Google Analytics
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, click here
Twitter
We use Twitter for advertising our products and services. We also measure the performance of our advertisements.
LinkedIn
We use LinkedIn for advertising our products and services. We also measure the performance of our advertisements.
What Cookies do we use on our VDR Platform?
VDR THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
We work with several third-party service providers to help us deliver, measure, and improve our advertising. You can manage these cookies with our cookie settings as well as tools provided by our services providers.
Walkme
WalkMe is a third party component, which provides on-screen assistance to users for FAQs. It walk you through the steps to carry out an action - e.g. how to upload a document, etc. We don’t know what each of the cookie does, but they are required for the WalkMe to provide the functionality.
Controlling your cookies
As part of our website interaction, users are required to choose what cookies they would like to enable before browsing our website. These options are accessed and controlled through our cookie banner located at the foot of the webpage.
These settings will be remembered so that you do not need to select them every time you visit our website, and they can be accessed and changed at any time.
BROWSER SETTINGS
You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
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