Use of Cookies

Control Risks Group Limited (“Control Risks”) operates the website www.controlrisks.com (the “Site”) and organises its maintenance and the placing of its content. Control Risks is strongly committed to issues of privacy. This page contains information about our use of cookies on the Site.

Use of cookies on the site
The use of cookies is now commonplace on many websites. Control Risks uses cookies through our use of the following software on the Site:

 
We do this so we can track user interaction with the Site to identify which content is of greatest interest to users, in order to allow us to deliver more meaningful content in the future. Tracking usage of the Site through Google Analytics and Siteimprove entails placing small digital files on your device (for example, computer or mobile phone). These include small files known as “cookies”. They cannot be used to identify you personally. This information includes the number of visitors to the Site, how visitors have reached the Site from and the pages that they visited within the Site.

You can visit the Site and download the majority of our online content without telling us who you are or giving us any information to identify yourself.

We have conducted a comprehensive audit of the cookies that are downloaded on to users machines when using the Site:

Google Analytics and Siteimprove
Google Analytics and Siteimprove collects first party cookies, as described above. The information collected using these cookies is sent to Google and Siteimprove and is used to evaluate how the Site is being used. This enables Control Risks to compile statistical reports on how the Site is being used in order to help us deliver more meaningful content for visitors to the Site.

Control Risks does not collect (nor allow any third party to collect using the Site) personally identifiable information of visitors to the Site. We will not associate any data gathered with any personally identifying information. We will not link or seek to link any cookie information with any IP address or with the identity of a computer user. In short, our use of Google Analytics and Siteimprove does not identify who you are, but it does track your movements on the Site.

A full list of cookies used by Google Analytics and explanations on how these work are available on Google’s website

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
http://www.google.com/intl/None/policies/privacy/

A full list of cookies used by Siteimprove and explanations on how these work are available on Siteimprove’s website:

https://siteimprove.com/en/privacy/cookie-notice/
https://siteimprove.com/en/privacy/privacy-policy/

Google Adwords
We and our service providers may use advertising cookies to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. These cookies remember what you have looked at on the site and other sites, and may be combined with other information acquired from third parties. For more information about targeting and advertising cookies and how you can opt out, visit:

http://www.google.co.uk/policies/technologies/ads/

Third party sites
We embed our video content using www.youtube.com. Information on how this website uses cookies can be found on the Google privacy pages.

Legal Requirements
The law requires us to obtain the consent of our users to download cookies on to their machines, and we want our users to find information and services quickly. Therefore, we have added a prominent link in the top right of every page of the Site to allow you to find out how we use cookies. You can also access this information through the privacy policy and legal information pages which are linked to in the footer of every web page.

How to disable cookies
You can stop cookies being downloaded on to your computer by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Site.

There is more information about cookies, including how to delete them on the website https://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/. You may also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.

LinkedIn Insight Tag
The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that we have added to our website to enable in-depth campaign reporting and to help us unlock valuable insights about our website visitors. We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about members interacting with our LinkedIn adverts.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of data regarding members’ visits to our website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics, timestamp, and page views. This data is encrypted, then de-identified within seven days, and the de-identified data is deleted within 90 days. LinkedIn does not share the personal data with us, it only provides aggregated reports about the website audience and ad performance. LinkedIn also provides retargeting for website visitors, enabling us to show personalized ads off our website by using this data, but without identifying the member. LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes through their LinkedIn account settings.