Cookie Policy

At Virtual Chief Data Office, we respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about the technologies we use. This Cookie Policy explains in detail how we use cookies and similar technologies (like web beacons, pixels, and local storage) on our website https://www.virtualchiefdataoffice.com.

This policy is designed to help you understand:

• What cookies are and how we use them

• The types of cookies we use and why

• Your rights to control our use of cookies

By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as described in this policy.

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognise your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions on that website.

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Cookies are created when your browser loads a particular website. The website sends information to the browser, which then creates a text file. Every time the user goes back to the same website, the browser retrieves and sends this file to the website's server.

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Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period of time, while session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

We use four main types of cookies:

a) Essential Cookies: These cookies are critical to the functionality of our website. They enable core features such as user authentication, security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, many of our services would not function properly.

 

Because these cookies are strictly necessary, we do not need to ask for your consent to use them.

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Examples of essential cookies we use:

• Authentication cookies: To remember your login status

• Load balancing cookies: To distribute traffic to the website across different servers

• Security cookies: To detect authentication abuses

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b) Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

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Examples of analytics cookies we use:

• Google Analytics cookies: To track user behaviour and measure site performance

• Heat mapping cookies: To understand how users interact with different parts of a webpage

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c) Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not function properly.

Examples of functionality cookies we use:

• Language preference cookies: To remember your preferred language

• Location cookies: To provide location-based content

• Customisation cookies: To remember your preferences for tools or layouts

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d) Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They also perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. This information may be shared with third parties to help deliver more relevant advertisements.

Examples of advertising cookies we use:

• Retargeting cookies: To show relevant ads based on your interests

• Social media cookies: To enable you to share pages and content through third-party social networking websites

Here is a detailed list of the cookies we use on our website:

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a) Essential Cookies:

• PHPSESSID: Session cookie used to maintain user session. Expires when browser is closed.

• XSRF-TOKEN: Security cookie to prevent cross-site request forgery. Expires after 2 hours.

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b) Analytics Cookies:

• _ga: Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. Expires after 2 years.

• _gid: Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. Expires after 24 hours.

• _gat: Google Analytics cookie used to throttle request rate. Expires after 1 minute.

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c) Functionality Cookies:

• lang_pref: Remembers your preferred language. Expires after 1 year.

• theme_pref: Remembers your preferred website theme (if applicable). Expires after 1 year.

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d) Advertising Cookies:

• _fbp: Facebook pixel cookie. Used to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers. Expires after 3 months.

• IDE: Google DoubleClick cookie. Used for serving targeted advertisements. Expires after 1 year.

Some of the cookies on our website are placed by our third-party partners. These include:

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• Google Analytics: For website analytics. Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

• LinkedIn: For social media integration and advertising. Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

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We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these cookies and how to manage them.

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie table above.

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You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

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In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

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.

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The date at the bottom of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact ​

Virtual Chief Data Office via email on contactus@virtualchiefdataoffice.com

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Last updated: 1st June 2024