What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
- First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
- Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit the Commission’s websites, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.
That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.
How do we use cookies?
Mountain Top Life Sciences websites mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by the Commission, not by any external organisation.
However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.
The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to:
- store visitor preferences
- make our websites operational
- gather analytics data (about user behaviour)
Visitor preferences
These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember:
- if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy
- if you have already replied to our survey pop-up (about how helpful the site content was) – so you won’t be asked again
1. About Cookies
1.1. Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
1.2. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
1.3. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
1.4. Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
2. Our cookies
2.1. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
2.2. We use ga.js cookies for Google Analytics tracking and reporting, allowing us to review site performance and to optimise pages to create a better customer experience.
3. Analytics cookies
3.1. We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website.
3.2. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.
3.3. The analytics cookies used by our website have the following names: ga.js.
3.4. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
3.5. Our analytics service provider’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
3.6. We use Google Analytics’ 3rd-party audience data (age, gender, and interests) to better understand the online behavior of our customers.
3.7. We also work with other companies that collect information about your online activities and browsing habits so that we can provide advertising that is better targeted to suit your interests and preferences.
3.8. You may see ads on other websites, including on Google, because we work with Google and other similar companies to target our ads based on information we or they have collected, including information that was collected through automated means (such as cookies and web beacons).
3.9. You may opt-out of Google Display Network ads’ by changing your preferences at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.
4. Blocking cookies
4.1. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. Depending on the type and version of browser you are using, you will have to follow a specific process to configure your browser to refuse to accept cookies.
4.2. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
4.3. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website.
5. Deleting cookies
5.1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Depending on the type and version of browser you are using, you will have to follow a specific process to manually delete cookie files already stored on your computer.
5.2. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
6. Our details
6.1. This website is owned and operated by Phaidon Holdings Limited.
6.2. We are registered in England and Wales under company registration number 08615385, and our registered office is at 21 Lombard Street, London, United Kingdom, EC3V 9AH.
6.3. Our principal place of business is at 21 Lombard Street, London, United Kingdom, EC3V 9AH.
7. You can contact us:
7.1.1. by post, using the postal address given above;
7.1.2. using our website contact form;
7.1.3. by telephone, on the contact number published on our website from time to time.