This cookie notice is for visitors to our DIVR website. It sets out how we use cookies. In this notice 'we' and 'our' mean GEI Consultants which operates this platform.
For almost any modern website to work properly, it needs to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a site will create files known as cookies, which are small text files, on its users' computers. These cookies are designed to allow the website to recognize its users on subsequent visits.
Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID, and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently. Some data collected is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to improve user experience.
Information collected by cookies is now classed as personal data.
We collect a number of cookies from our users for various reasons. Amongst other things, the cookies we use allow users to login and allow us to calculate how many visitors we have and how long they stay on our site.
There are two types of cookie:
Cookies also have, broadly speaking, four different functions and can be categorised as follow: 'strictly necessary' cookies, 'performance' cookies, 'functional' cookies and 'targeting' or 'advertising' cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies are essential to navigate around a website and use its features. Without them, you wouldn't be able to login to the site or use basic functionality. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.
Examples of how we use 'strictly necessary' cookies include:
Performance cookies collect data for statistical purposes on how visitors use a website; they don't contain personal information such as names and email addresses, and are used to improve your user experience of a website.
Here are some examples of how we use performance cookies:
Information supplied by performance cookies helps us to understand how you use the website; for example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services. We generally use independent analytics companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third party company (third party cookies).
Functional cookies allow users to customise how a website looks for them: they can remember usernames and user preferences.
Here are some examples of how we use functional cookies:
Advertising and targeting cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you, but can also limit the number of times you see an advertisement, and be used to chart the effectiveness of an ad campaign by tracking users' clicks.
The DIVR website does not use any advertising or targeting cookies.
You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete all cookies and many websites will not work properly or you will lose some functionality. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our website for these reasons.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can alter the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. Generally you have the option to see what cookies you've got and delete them individually, block third party cookies or cookies from particular sites, accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is issued or reject all cookies. Visit the 'options' or 'preferences' menu on your browser to change settings, and check the following links for more browser-specific information.