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Cookie Policy

Introduction 

Our website use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to ensure the website functions properly, provides you with a positive browsing experience, and also allows us to improve our services. 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, provided you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Below, we have provided more information about cookies, including a list of all the cookies we use, and why. 

What types of cookie do we use? 

Cookies may be either “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. Learn more about cookies: What Are Cookies?. 

We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below: 

Necessary / Essential Cookies 

  • Type: Session Cookies 
  • Administered by: Us 
  • Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use certain features. They help authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have requested cannot be provided. We use these cookies solely to deliver those services. 

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies 

  • Type: Persistent Cookies 
  • Administered by: Us 
  • Purpose: These cookies determine whether users have accepted the use of cookies on the website. 

  

Functionality Cookies 

  • Type: Persistent Cookies 
  • Administered by: Us 
  • Purpose: These cookies enable the website to remember choices you make, such as login details or language preferences. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personalised experience and to prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences each time you visit the website. 

Tracking and Performance Cookies 

  • Type: Persistent Cookies 
  • Administered by: Third-Parties 
  • Purpose: These cookies collect information about how users interact with the website, including traffic sources and usage patterns. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with your device. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features, or functionalities to understand user behaviour and improve the website. 

Important information about third-party cookies  

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical or marketing cookies. 

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor the activity on our Service and to store certain information. These technologies include beacons, tags, and scripts, which help us collect data, improve user experience, and analyse the performance of our Service.

The technologies we use may include: 

  • Cookies (or Browser Cookies) A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may be unable to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies, our Service may use them by default. 
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear GIFs, pixel tags, or single-pixel GIFs). These permit the Company to, for example, count users who have visited particular pages or opened an email, and to generate related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of specific content or verifying system and server integrity). 

How do I change my cookie settings? 

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through your browser settings. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the installation of all (or certain) types of cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential ones) you may not be able to access all (or parts) of our website. 

To find out more about cookies, including how to view and manage cookies already set on your device, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. 

To find out how to manage cookies in popular browsers, please refer to: 

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

  

How can you find more information? 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, and the purposes for which we use them, by contacting us at compliance@piccunited.org or by visiting our privacy-policy