Vertas Group Client Privacy Notice. HR0189. V1 May 2018
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto 'terminal equipment' (eg a computer or smartphone) when the user accesses a website. It allows the website to recognise that user's device and store some information about the user's preferences or past actions.
- Delivering online services sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer or device in text files known as cookies. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently.
- Cookies are generally set by the website you are visiting (first-party cookies) but if the website has included content from an external resource, such as a Google map, cookies can be set from the origin of the content (third-party cookies).
Session cookies do not have an expiry time set when they are created and are deleted once the browser is closed. However, persistent cookies remain on your computer or device until their expiry time is reached.
| Session Cookies | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| ASPSESSIONID | This cookie is set by our site to maintain session state. We also use this cookie so that once you have logged on with username and password you won't have to do it for every page you request from our site. | When you close your browser. |
| cT | We use this cookie to as part of our error handling system to improve our site. This cookie is only set when an error occurs on the site. | When you close your browser. |
| Google Analytics | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| _utma | For more information, see the Google Analytics Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics. | 2 years |
| _utmb | For more information, see the Google Analytics Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics. | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | For more information, see the Google Analytics Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics. | when you close your browser |
| _utmz | For more information, see the Google Analytics Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics. | 6 months |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors 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 to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
||
If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can turn off the cookie acceptance option in your browser settings. Note: By doing this some areas of the website, features, and information may not function or display properly.
Google Analytics
- This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. The tool uses 'cookies' which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.
- The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Vertas Group Limited.
- We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
- We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.
