Cookies policy

 
 

Data Orchard CIC uses ‘cookies’ on its websites. A cookie is a small data file that sent by a website and stored by your browser. When you visit Data Orchard’s website, your browser checks to see if it has any cookies for it and sends the information contained in those cookies back to the site. We use cookies for:

  • Authentication – to identify and recognise you when you visit and revisit our websites and as you navigate our sites.

  • Status – to determine whether you are logged into our website.

  • Security – to protect user accounts, including fraudulent use of login credentials and to protect our websites and services generally.

  • Analysis – to monitor and statistically analyse our audience reach and usage patterns to optimise the site functionality.

  • Storing preferences – in relation to the use of cookies more generally and to allow us to customise our site according to your individual preferences.

Cookies are not used to collect personally identifiable data about you. If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites or any other this can be done through your browser settings. However, this may mean you are unable to access certain services on our site. The help function in your browser should give you this information or alternatively visit aboutcookies.org for information on how to do this. Here you will also find information about how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies.

Third party cookies

Our websites may include content embedded from other sites and services such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, PayPal, Tito, GSuite and Survey Monkey; these sites may set additional cookies but we do not pass any personally identifiable information to these services. We do not take responsibility for third party cookies.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our websites. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to collect anonymous usage and visitor behaviour information – this includes IP address, operating system, browser type and pages visited. We use this to track how our website is used, measure our site’s effectiveness, and improve our content and user experience.

Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using Data Orchard’s websites, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

You can reject this cookie and information on how to do this can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy