What are cookies?
A “cookie” is a small piece of
information stored on your device when you visit a website. The cookie means
that the Site will remember you and how you’ve used the Site every time you come
back. A cookie can be a “persistent” or “session” cookie. A “persistent” cookie will remain for a
period of time set for that cookie. A “session-based” cookie is allocated only
for the duration of your visit to our website and automatically expires when
you close down your browser. If you want to know more about cookies, head to
aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org (please note: these links are not
operated by us, and may open a new window or browser tab). If you are in the
European Union, you may also find more information at
www.youronlinechoices.com/uk.
A few of the Tracking Technologies used
on the Site, include, but are not limited to, the following (there may also be
future-developed tracking technology or methods that are not listed here):
Cookies and Local Storage. Cookies are
small files containing a string of characters that are sent to your Device’s
browser to uniquely identify your browser or to store information on your
Device. Our Site may use HTTP cookies, HTML5 cookies, Flash cookies and other
types of cookie technology to store information on local storage. Each website
can send its own cookie to your browser.
Pixel Tags/Web Beacons. A Pixel Tag or
a Web Beacon is a small graphic file that allows us and third parties to
monitor the use of the Services and collect usage data. It can collect
information such as the IP address of the Device that downloaded the page on
which the tag appears, the URL of the page on which the tag appears, the time
(and length of time) the page containing the tag was viewed, the type of
browser that retrieved the pixel tag, and the ID number of any cookie
previously placed by that server on your computer.
Embedded Scripts. An Embedded Script is
programming code that is designed to collect information about your
interactions with the Site, such as the links you click on.
ETag, or entity tag. An Etag or entity
tag is a feature of the cache in browsers. It is an opaque identifier assigned
by a web server to a specific version of a resource found at a URL.
Browser Fingerprinting. This involves
collection and analysis of information from your Device, such as, without
limitation, your operating system, plug-ins, system fonts and other data, for
purposes of identification.
Recognition Technologies. These are
technologies, including application of statistical probability to data sets,
which attempt to recognize or make assumptions about users and devices (e.g.,
that a user of multiple devices is the same user).
LiveRamp. When you use our website, we
share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed,
de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating
system, with our partner, LiveRamp Inc. and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’).
LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to
their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners
to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases.
We may also share hashed and de-identified email addresses, IP address, and
advertising identifiers with LiveRamp, which uses that information to create a
link between your device and its databases. This link may be shared by our
partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or
advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email
and in app etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third
parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to
your browser.
Flash.
A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a device via the Adobe Flash
plug-in that may be built into or downloaded by you onto your Device. These
cookies may be used for various purposes, including, enabling a Flash feature
and remembering your preferences.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to do several things.
For example, cookies are used to enable certain functions of the Site, enhance
security and detect fraud, improve functionality of the Site, remember your
preferences, or count the number of people looking at a website. We also use
them to keep track of what you’ve done on the Site, and to make online
advertising more relevant to you.
We receive data from you as part of the
communication connection itself through the standard electronic greeting
between your computer and our servers. This information often consists of
network routing (where you came from), equipment information (browser type),
Internet protocol address, date and time. Other parts of the Site use cookies
(including signup forms) to collect information about your use of the site and
to facilitate return visits. Cookies on the Site may collect the following
information: a unique identifier, user preferences and profile information used
to personalize the content that is shown.
Cookies themselves don’t hold
personally identifiable information (“PII”). They only have a unique
alphanumeric identifier that sits on your browser. And in many cases, we won’t
be able to link the information we collect by using a cookie back to you. They
can, however, enable us to link that information back to you and your personal
information, for example, when you log in or choose to register for a
newsletter.
We may also engage third parties to
track and analyze non-personally and personally identifiable website data and
to serve advertisements. To do so, we may permit third parties to place cookies
on devices of users of our Site, where permitted by law, and subject to your
right to opt out through the Site. We use the data collected to help us
administer and improve the quality of the Site and to analyze Site usage. Such
third parties may combine the information that we provide about you with other
information that they have collected. These third parties are required to use
your information in accordance with this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.
We will record all such disclosures and will use reasonable efforts to ensure
that such third parties do not use your PII for any purpose that is not
expressly provided for herein.
We’ve put our cookies into the
following categories or “types”, to make it easier for you to understand why we
need them:
Essential – These cookies are essential
to provide you with our Services and to enable you to use some of its features
on the Site. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Site
and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these
cookies, the Services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only
use these cookies to provide you with those Services.
Analytics and Performance – These
cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Site and the
Services and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify
any individual visitor. The information is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
It includes the number of visitors to our Site, the websites that referred them
to our Site, the pages that they visited, what time of day they visited the
Site, whether they have visited the Site before, and other similar information.
We use this information to help operate our Services more efficiently, to
gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on
our Services. We use Google Analytics for this purpose – Google Analytics uses
its own cookies to improve how our Services work.
Functionality – These cookies allow our
Site to remember choices you make when you use our Services, such as
remembering your language preferences and remembering the changes you make to
other parts of our Sites or Services which you can customize. The purpose of
these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid
you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site.
Social Media Cookies - These cookies
are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or
“like” button on our Services or you link your account or engage with our
content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Instagram,
or Twitter. The social network will record that you have done this.
Targeting and Advertising – These are
used to share some information with third parties who we advertise with, so we
know how you’ve reached our Site. We can also use cookies to identify the parts
of the Site that you are interested in. We then use this information to show
you advertisements and pages we think may also be of interest to you, to tailor
how we communicate with you, or to tailor the contents of the communications we
send to you. If you prefer, you can opt out of these. Tailoring of content
means it includes information reflecting the interest you’ve shown in the
content of our web pages or offers or promotions that we think may interest
you, and to improve how we respond to your needs.
In addition to the cookies we use on
our Site, we also use cookies and similar technologies in some emails and
notifications we send to you. These help us to understand whether you have
opened the email and how you have interacted with it. If you have enabled
images, cookies may be set on your computer or mobile device. Cookies will also
be set if you click on any link within the email.
Cookies and You
To sign up for information or services
with GOOD, you must have cookies enabled on your internet browser. Some of the
more popular browsers (and links to manage your cookies on each) are:
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari
Google Chrome
Check your particular browser and
device for correct and up-to-date information. If you choose not to enable
cookies, you will still be able to browse our Site, but it will restrict some
of the functionality of our Site and what you can do. However, you can allow
cookies from specific websites by making them ‘trusted websites’ in your web
browser.
Controlling your cookies
You can set your web browser to alert
you when a cookie is being used. You can also get information on the duration
of the cookie and what server your data is being returned to. You then can
accept or reject the cookie. Additionally, you can set your browser to refuse
all cookies or accept only cookies returned to the originating servers.
You can opt in or out of cookies at any
time – except Essential cookies (these are used to help make our website work
efficiently). You can enable or disable cookies in your browser. If you wish to
restrict or block the cookies set by any website – including this website – you
can do this through the web browser settings for each web browser you use, on
each device you use to access the internet.
Information on controlling and deleting
cookies, including on a wide variety of browsers, is available at
allaboutcookies.org.
Some services may not function or may
have more limited functionality if your web browser does not accept cookies.
With respect to certain cookies running
on our Site, you can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies
here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.
You can find out more about how Google
protects your data here: www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
You can prevent the use of Google
Analytics relating to your use of our Services by downloading and installing
the browser plugin available via this link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
Flash cookies can be adjusted at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html.
If you choose to adjust your Flash privacy settings on your device some
features of the Services may not function properly.
If you want to opt-out of cookies
across different advertising networks, the Network Advertising Initiative
website has more information and guidance at www.networkadvertising.org. You
also can disable cookies that remember your browsing habits and target
advertising at you by visiting
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. To opt out of LiveRamp’s
targeted advertising, please head here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/.
If you choose to remove targeted or
advertising cookies, you will still see advertisements, but they may not be
relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the companies
listed at the above links, not all companies that serve online behavioral
advertising are included in this list, and so you may still receive some
cookies and tailored adverts from companies that are not listed.
If you don't wish to accept cookies
from one of our emails, you can choose not to download any images or click on
any links. You can also set your browser to restrict cookies or to reject them
entirely. These settings will apply to all cookies, whether included on
websites or in emails. Depending on your email or browser settings, cookies in
an email may sometimes be automatically accepted (for example, when you’ve
added an email address to your address book or safe senders list). For more
information, refer to your email browser or device instructions.