Effective Date: April 10, 2023
Unless otherwise expressly stated, terms in this notice have the same meaning as defined in our general Privacy Policy.
Scope Of Notice
This Cookie Policy supplements the information contained in our general Privacy Policy in relation to how we and our business providers and service providers use cookies and related technologies in the course of managing and providing our online services and our communications to you.
For more details about how we process your personal information outside of our cookies, please review our general Privacy Policy.
What Are Cookies and Related Technologies
Our Site and Services use cookies, which are tiny files downloaded to your computer that allow us and our third-party providers to collect certain information about your interactions with our email communications, websites and other online services, and that improve your experience. We and our third-party providers and providers may also use other, related technologies to collect this information, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies (collectively, “cookies“). As is common practice among companies that operate online, we allow certain third-party providers and providers to collect information about consumers directly through our Services, from your browser or device through cookies. Please see the section titled, “Third Party Data Collection and Online Advertising” below for more information.
What We Collect When Using Cookies
We and our third-party providers and providers may use cookies to automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit or interact with our email communications, Site and other online services. For example, we may collect log data about your device and its software, such as your IP address, operating system, browser type, date/time of your visit, and other similar information. We may collect analytics data or use third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help us measure usage and activity trends for our online services and better understand our customer base. We also may collect location data, including general geographic location based on IP address or more precise location data when a user accesses our online services through a mobile device.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management and accessibility and cannot be switched off in our systems. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information. You are unable to opt-out of these cookies, since without them, the site would not work properly.
- Functionality cookies. These enable a website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization for items such as remembering your preferred language or the region that you are in. You may opt-out of these cookies.
- Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to our Site and online services, and to see how visitors move around our Site and online services when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our Site and online services work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Please rest assured that we will not implement these cookies unless you opt-in.
- Targeting/Behavioral Advertising cookies (“targeting cookies”) . These cookies record your visit to our Site and online services, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They are used to track visitors across our Site. We will use this information to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it, and the marketing messages we send to you more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties who provide a service to us for this purpose. Please see the section below titled “Third Party Data Collection and Online Advertising” for more information. Please rest assured that we will not implement these cookies unless you opt-in.
If you opted-into receiving any cookies that are not strictly necessary, and want to reject them across all your browsers and devices, you will need to do so on each browser on each device you actively use.
Third Party Data Collection and Online Advertising
As explained above, we may use targeting cookies that are set through our site by our third-party advertising providers. These cookies may be used to build a profile of your interests or show you relevant advertisements on their sites after you have visited our website.
Third Party Providers
We may use third-party providers such as Google Analytics, HubSpot or LinkedIn, to recognize you and link the devices you use when you visit our Site on your browser or mobile device, log in to your account, or otherwise engage with us directly. We may share a unique identifier, like a user ID or hashed email address, with Google to facilitate the service. Google Analytics allows us to better understand how our users interact with our Services and to tailor our advertisements and content to you. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, as well as how you can control information sent to Google, review Google’s site “How Google uses data when you use our providers’ sites or apps” located at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/providers/. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs, including the Google Analytics Browser Ad-On here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features such as Google Analytics or LinkedIn, for Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager Integration, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, LinkedIn Insight Tag, LinkedIn post embeds and LinkedIn Sign In. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to our Site.
Cookies We Use on our Site
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Adjusting Your Preferences
If you chose to opt-in to any cookies that are not strictly necessary, you may control your advertising preferences or opt-out of certain Google/LinkedIn advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences, visiting the LinkedIn Preferences Manger available at https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/member-cookies or by visiting NAI’s online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices
How We Use Information Collected Via Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons outlined throughout this Cookie Policy, and as further detailed below:
- If you create an account with us, then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration.
- We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page.
- Email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Our surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
- When you submit data through a form, (e.g., contact forms), cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Updates To This Cookie Policy
We will update this Cookie Policy from time to time. When we make changes to this Cookie Policy, we will change the “Last Updated Date” at the beginning of this notice. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided in the notification.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Cookie Policy or other privacy-related matters, please contact us at compliance@gbgplc.com or utilize our webform.