This Cookie Policy explains how Envirogen Group UK Limited and Envirogen Group Netherlands BV uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our websites at https://www.envirogengroup.com. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner 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 (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our websites to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our online properties. Third parties serve cookies through our websites for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
The specific types of cookies served through our websites and the purposes they perform are described below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific online properties you visit).
Essential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Websites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.
Analytics and customisation cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our websites for you.
Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Websites through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.
How can I control cookies?
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
If you object to cookies or want to delete any cookies that are already stored on your computer, you should follow the instructions for deleting existing cookies and disabling future cookies on your web browser or equivalent software. Further information is available at www.aboutcookies.org.
A list of the cookies that our website uses can be found below:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. | 5 months 26 days 23 hours 59 minutes | Advertisement |
| bscookie | .www.linkedin.com | This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags. | 1 years 11 months 29 days 11 hours 37 minutes | Advertisement |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users’ browser supports cookies. | 14 minutes | Advertisement |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. | 1 years 23 days 23 hours 59 minutes | Advertisement |
| _gcl_au | .envirogengroup.com | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website. | 2 months 28 days 23 hours 59 minutes | Analytics |
| lissc | .linkedin.com | This cookie is provided by LinkedIn. This cookie is used for tracking embedded service. | 11 months 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes | Analytics |
| _ga | .envirogengroup.com | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 1 years 11 months 28 days 23 hours 59 minutes | Analytics |
| _gid | .envirogengroup.com | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | 23 hours 59 minutes | Analytics |
| GPS | .youtube.com | This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location. | 29 minutes | Analytics |
| lang | .ads.linkedin.com | This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website. | session | Functional |
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page. | 1 years 11 months 29 days 11 hours 37 minutes | Functional |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing. | 23 hours 59 minutes | Functional |
| lang | .linkedin.com | This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website. | session | Functional |
| UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | Linkedin – Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. | 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes | Other |
| _hjTLDTest | .envirogengroup.com | No description | session | Other |
| _hjid | .envirogengroup.com | This cookie is set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 11 months 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes | Other |
| _hjFirstSeen | .envirogengroup.com | No description | 29 minutes | Other |
| _gat_UA-19235295-51 | .envirogengroup.com | No description | Other | |
| lfuuid | www.envirogengroup.com | No description | 10 years 4 days 10 hours 39 minutes | Other |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | www.envirogengroup.com | No description | 1 minute | Other |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | .envirogengroup.com | No description | 29 minutes | Other |
| YSC | .youtube.com | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | session | Performance |
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our websites or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?
Websites may also use so-called “Flash Cookies” (also known as Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention and for other site operations.
If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to “information” on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).
Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.
Do you serve targeted advertising?
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our websites. 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. This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.
How often will you update this Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Other Tracking
We may also use other tracking technologies including tracking pixels and link tracking to monitor your viewing activities.
Device and browser type and open statistics
All direct marketing emails have a tracking pixel (a tiny invisible image) with a query string in the URL. Within the URL we have user details to identify who opened an email for statistical purposes.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at enquiries@envirogengroup.com or call us on +44 (0)1773 441029.