Victaulic Cookie Notice

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Last updated: January 10, 2020

 

This Cookie Notice (“Cookie Notice” or “Notice”) applies to Victaulic and each of its global subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Victaulic”, “we”, “us” or “our”).

Like most businesses, we employ “cookies” or similar technologies. This Cookie Notice tells you about our use of cookies and similar technologies on our mobile applications and website ("Website”).  For further information about how we use, store, disclose and process personal data that we obtain through or in connection with the use of our Website, please visit our Privacy Statement.

When you first access our Website from certain jurisdictions, you may receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use.  By clicking “accept cookies” you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Cookie Notice.

You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time (See ‘How to Control Cookies’, below). You can change your browser settings to refuse or restrict cookies, and you may delete them after they have been placed on your device at any time. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our Website that you access may take more time to work, or may not function properly.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small files containing a string of characters which we may store on your computer or mobile device when you visit our Website.  When you visit our Website, the cookies allow us to recognize your browser. Cookies may store your preferences and other information but cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

Cookies set by a website owner (in this case, Victaulic) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”.  Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the Website (i.e. advertising, social media functions, and analytics).

2. The Cookies We Use

Cookies make the use of our Website easier by, among other things, saving your preferences. We may also use cookies to deliver content tailored to your interests. Our cookies may enable us to relate your use of our Website to Personal Data that you previously submitted.

The information that we collect with cookies allows us to statistically analyze usage of our Website, and to improve and customize our content and other offerings. However, we only disclose information collected with cookies to third parties on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you.

The specific types of first party and third party cookies placed by our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below:

Strictly Necessary Cookies:
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website, use our customer services chat features, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Victaulic These cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website and therefore cannot be refused. They can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see Section 3, How to Control Cookies, below).
Performance and Functionality Cookies:
These are used to recognize you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region), but are non-essential to the performance of the Website.
Victaulic These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see Section 3, How to Control Cookies, below).
Analytical Cookies:
These cookies collect information about how users access and move through the Website. These cookies may also collect the websites you visited before arriving at our Website. We use this information in either aggregate form to help us to improve the way our Website works, or to personalize our Website to your interests.
Victaulic, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Adobe Dynamic Tag Manager, Piwik, Hotjar, Microsoft Clarity, Salesforce/Pardot These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see Section 3, How to Control Cookies, below). Alternatively, please follow the links below to opt-out:
Google:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Adobe:
https://www.adobe.com/uk/privacy/opt-out.html?red=a
Piwik:
https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/#optout
Hotjar:
https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out
Microsoft Clarity:
https://account.microsoft.com/account/privacy?refd=privacy.microsoft.com
Advertising Cookies:
These cookies are used to make the advertising displayed on the Website more relevant to you. These cookies prevent ads reappearing and ensure that ads are properly displayed. Certain third party cookies may track users over different websites and will provide ads relevant to your interests.
Simpli.fi, Doubleclick, TradeDesk These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see Section 3, How to Control Cookies, below). Alternatively, please follow the links below to opt-out:
Simpli.fi:
https://app.simpli.fi/opt-out
Doubleclick:
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin
TradeDesk:
https://www.adsrvr.org/
In addition, you can exercise advertising cookie choices by visiting: https://www.aboutads.info/choices/, https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/; or https://youronlinechoices.com/.
Social Media Cookies:
These cookies allow us to integrate social media functions into our Website and may also be used for advertising purposes.
Facebook Connect, Facebook Custom Audience, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube These cookies can be deleted or blocked using your browser settings (see Section 3, How to Control Cookies, below). Alternatively, please follow the links below to opt-out:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/personalization
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls?trk
YouTube:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/cookies/

3. How to Control Cookies

When you first access our Website from certain jurisdictions, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “accept cookies” you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Cookie Notice.

You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time, although you may not be able to use certain features on our Website.  You can do this by clicking the appropriate opt-out provided in the cookie table above or by activating the settings on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies.

Please follow the links below to helpful information for the most popular browsers:

In addition, you can exercise advertising cookie choices by visiting:

4. Web Beacons

As well as cookies, we use other technologies to recognize and track visitors to our Website. A web beacon (also known as a “tracking pixel” or “clear GIF”) is a clear graphic image (typically a one-pixel tag) that is delivered through a web browser or HTML e-mail, typically in conjunction with a cookie.

Web beacons allow us, for example, to monitor how users move from one page within our Website to another, to track access to our communications, to understand whether users have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to measure how ads have been viewed and to improve Website performance.

5. Targeted Advertising

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.

 

6. Changes to this Cookie Notice

Any changes we make to our Cookie Notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Cookie Notice.

 

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Notice or Victaulic’s data practices, please see our Privacy Statement, or contact our Privacy Team at [email protected].