Cookie Policy
Server Visitor Data
When you access a page on our website, the server logs and entry containing (1) your IP address, (2) the timestamp of your visit, (3) the URL you followed, (4) the website you came from (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer), if any, and (5) a line of text identifying the type of browser used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent#User_agent_identification). This information is publicly available to every server you connect to (through your browser, an app, a video game, etc.) and cannot be used to personally identify you.
We collect this information for maintenance purposes, such as identifying errors, broken URLs or missing files, and analytics tracking, such as average visitor and view counts, popular pages and frequent referrers.
Regarding IP address collection: In order for the server to know where to send your data, your IP address must be made available. Trying to browse the internet without sharing your IP address would be like asking Amazon to make deliveries without knowing your postal address.
Cookies and Web Beacons
What are cookies and what do they do?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit the website, a computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies.
For further details on cookies, please visit the website All About Cookies http://www.allaboutcookies.org where you can find comprehensive information on Cookies.
Consent and blocking of the use of cookies
By navigating away from the home page of the website and continuing to use the website, you are consenting to our use of the Cookies described in this Cookie Policy.
If you do not consent to us using Cookies or, having previously consented to our use of Cookies, you decide to block such use then please read the next section of this Cookie Policy entitled “Blocking our Use of Cookies”.
Blocking our Use of Cookies
You can block our use of Cookies at any time by activating the settings in your web browser. Please visit All About Cookies where you can find comprehensive information on cookie management for a wide variety of web browsers.
What Happens if I Block Cookies?
If you choose to withhold consent to the use of Cookies, or subsequently block Cookies that you previously consented to, some aspects of the website may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our website.
How we use cookies on the website
Session Cookies
We use Cookies to allow the website to uniquely identify a user’s browsing session on the website and to allow us to coordinate this information with data from our server.
Analytics
We use Google’s “analytics” Cookies which, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to identify unique, but anonymous users. These Cookies can also calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our website, the date and time of a user’s visit to the website, the pages a user
has viewed and the time spent by users at the website. This helps us gather feedback so that we can improve the website and better serve our users.
Further information on each Cookie is set out below.
Cross-platform advertising and user recognition
We also use Cookies provided by Facebook and Twitter. These Cookies operate in different ways but they are both used in connection with advertising served to a user of the website on Twitter and Facebook, the recognition of such users and the devices used by the user to access Twitter,
Facebook and the website. Further information on each Cookie is set out in the table below.
Third-party web sites and platforms
Your use of third party web sites and platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, and the privacy practices of these platforms, are governed by separate terms, conditions and policies for which we are not responsible.
You should review Twitter’s and Facebook’s terms, conditions and policies where you will find more details on how information about you is used on their platforms and how you can set your privacy preferences.
You can find more information about the individual Cookies we use and the purposes for which they are used below:
Google Analytics, _ga
This Cookie is placed by Google. It enables us to learn information about our users use of the website such as the time of visit, the pages viewed, whether the user has visited before and the web site visited prior to visiting the website.
To opt-out, please see: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Twitter Conversion Tracker, uwt.js
This Cookie is placed by Twitter. It enables us to learn how our users have interacted with our advertising served to them on Twitter. It also enables us to identify users who have used their mobile device to view our advertising on Twitter and later came to our website on a desktop computer.
To opt-out, please see: http://optout.aboutads.info/#/.
Facebook Pixel, fbevents.js
This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables us to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular, it enables us to see how our users move between devices when accessing the website and Facebook, to ensure that our Facebook
advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the website.
To opt-out, please see: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences.
LinkedIn Insight Tag, LC1
This Cookie is placed by LinkedIn. It enables us to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on LinkedIn. In particular, it enables us to see how our users move between devices when accessing the website and LinkedIn, to ensure that our LinkedIn
advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the website.
To opt-out, please see: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.
Most of our cookies expire within 30 days, although our analytics cookies may persist for 1 year.