COOKIE POLICY
Effective Date: 1 January 2021
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. ARB does not use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie.This page describes what information ARB gathers, how it is used, and why ARB sometimes needs to store these cookies. ARB will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however if you disable cookies, ARB may be unable to optimize your visit to the Website and certain features may not be available.
How We Use Cookies
ARB uses cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experiences, for analytics and marketing. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this Website. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case, they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
Opting Out
You can learn more about opting out of receiving interest-based ads at optout.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org/choices. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on, and opt out of interest-based Google ads using Google’s Ads Settings.
For more information about cookies please see https://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/.
The Cookies We Set
- Email newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Surveys related cookies
From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
- Forms related cookies
When you submit data on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- Third Party Analytics
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
- Google AdSense
The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
- Social Media
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Changes to our Cookie Policy
From time to time, it may be necessary for us to change this cookie policy. We encourage you to check here periodically for any changes.
Complaints
You may lodge a complaint with us if you believe we have handled your personal information other than in accordance with ARB’s obligations under any law or regulation. To lodge a complaint, please contact ARB on the relevant details within the Privacy Policy.
