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We use these Cookies

Last updated on March 20, 2018

IMG, International Management Group understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses.  This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use this website. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of use.

By continuing to browse or use our website, you agree that we can store and access Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies as described in this Cookie Policy.

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit one of our website, to the extent you agree.  The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use the website. This allows our website to recognize your device from those of other users of the website. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies.

HOW DO OUR WEBSITE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

IMG uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our website. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on the website, protect it, and to process any requests that you make of us.

FIRST AND THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to IMG and that we place on your device. “Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our website. IMG may contract with third-party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.

We use the following types of cookies:

Persistent Cookies. We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using our website. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the website.

Session Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your device when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.

You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our website.

The data collected by the website and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.

Our Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Cookie Type Purpose
Strictly Necessary/ Technical These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our website so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access sub-website content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our Sites.
Analytical/ Performance These Cookies are used by us to analyze how the website is used and how it's performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors come from.
Functionality These Cookies let us operate the website in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us to "remember" you in-between visits.
Third-Party Advertising These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the website for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our website.

Below you find a description of some of the most important Cookies used by our website.

Cookie name Provider Description Expire
Statistics
_ga IMG Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years
 _gat  IMG Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate Session
_gid IMG Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website Session
 Marketing
_stid sharethis.com Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device for return visits 1 year
collect google.com Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across d evices and marketing channels. Session
IDE doubleclick.net Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking
one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
2 years
khaos rubiconproject.com Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user's movement on websites that use the same ad netwo rk. 1 year
put_# rubiconproject.com Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user's movement on websites that use the same ad network. 29 days
rpb rubiconproject.com Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user's movement on websites that use the same ad netwo rk. 29 days
ads/conversion google.com Unclassified Session
ads/user-lists google.com Unclassified Session
 pvc_visits imgcorp.co.uk  Unclassified Session
slimstat_tracking_code imgcorp.co.uk  Unclassified Session
viewed_cookie_policy imgcorp.co.uk  Unclassified 1 year