Cookie Policy
[Version 1.0 11/03/2014]
This policy ("Cookie Policy") forms part of ATG Media US Inc.'s privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") - it is set out separately for clarity. For any data protection queries or requests for personal data please see our Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website and place bids.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences for example, your choice of language or region and allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests. These cookies can also be used to make your browsing experience more convenient, for example if you register with us or complete our online forms we will use cookies to remember your details, speed up searches and remember your choice of ‘grid’ or ‘list’ view mode during your current visit and any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They are anonymous so cannot be used to identify individuals. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
- Third party advertising and analytics cookies. These are placed by or on behalf of independent advertisers who are advertising on our site or other third parties (e.g. Google) ("third parties"). These cookies may be placed within the advertisement and elsewhere on our site. They are anonymous – they cannot identify individuals. They are used for statistical analysis by allowing the third party to count how many people have seen the advertisement or have seen it more than once. They might also allow the third party to tailor advertising to you when you visit other websites. Note: we have no access to third party cookies and third parties have no access to our cookies. The third parties that place cookies have their own privacy policies. We note below the third party cookies that are relevant and related information.
When you visit our website, we use the following third party cookies:
- Third Party Analytics Software
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors and users use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors/users to the site, where vistors/users have come to the site from and the pages they visited. More details can be found on the Google Analytics Privacy Overview.
- Third Party Analytics – Display Advertising
We also use third party analytics software to collect data about traffic to our site and how users use our site via a display advertising cookie – this is in addition to data collected through the standard Analytics implementation noted above. The display advertising cookie allows advertising to be targeted to you based on your preferences, browsing habits on our site, the type of ads you show an interest in and other data the third party may collect from your visits to other sites outside the control of ATG Media US Inc. For more information visit //www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/ads/.
Blocking cookies and opting out
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. 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.
Further information on how to set your browser’s cookie preferences can be found in the following links:
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Safari Web and iOS
If you wish to specifically opt out of the third party advertising cookies you can do by using the Google Ads Settings, visitors/users can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads. Alternatively, see Google Analytics' currently available opt-outs for the web.
CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE POLICY
Any changes we may make to our Cookie Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. This Cookie Policy replaces all prior cookie policies or statements