Our website uses cookies – small files stored on your computer or mobile phone – to help us understand how people use our website. Cookies are also used to support specific areas of the site, but only with the user’s consent. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
About cookies
Cookies are files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies on this website
We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.
We will send to you the following cookies:
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Typical content: randomly generated number ~
Expires: 2 years
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Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes
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Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser
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Typical content: randomly generated number and information about how the page was reached (eg directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Expires: 6 months
How we use cookies
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you and do not collect information from your computer.
We use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:
I. Measuring how people are using our website and its content, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast
II. Understanding what technology people are using to access the site – for example the browser they are using or whether they are accessing from a mobile phone
III. Enabling a service to recognise your device so you have don’t have to give the same information several times during one task
IV. Recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t have to do it for every web page requested
Third party cookies
When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies.
Our advertisers/service providers may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:
I. To track your browser across multiple websites;
II. To build a profile of your web surfing;
III. To target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.
In addition, we use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Blocking cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
I. in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector;
II. in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, and un-checking “Accept cookies from sites” in the “Privacy” box.
Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. [If you block cookies, you will not be able to use the identify feature(s) on this website.
Deleting cookies
You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:
I. in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files;
II. in Firefox, you can delete cookies by, first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you “clear private data” (this setting can be changed by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Settings” in the “Private Data” box) and then clicking “Clear private data” in the “Tools” menu.
Obviously, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Contact us
This website is owned and operated by INAOSSIEN Ltd.
If you have any questions about our cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact us by email at inaossien|at|inaossien|dot|com, by telephone to + 44 20 8123 9405 or by post 207, Regent St, 3rd Floor | W1B 3HH London | United Kingdom
