Chatham Management Consultancies Co and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Chathams”, “us”, or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read with our Privacy Policy and Terms of use.
By continuing to browse or use our Sites, you agree that we can store and access Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies as described in this Cookie Policy.
What are Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit one of our Sites, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Sites. This allows our Sites to recognise your device from other Sites users. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
How do our sites use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
Chathams uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, remember your preferences, and track your use of our Sites. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Sites, protect the Sites, and process any requests that you make of us.
To administer our Sites and for research purposes, Chathams has also contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyse statistical usage and volume information from our Site users. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us improve the user experience, manage our Site content, and analyse how users navigate and utilise the Sites.
First and Third-party Cookies
“First-party Cookies” are cookies that belong to Chathams and that Chathams places on your device. “Third-party Cookies” are cookies another party places on your device through our Site. Chathams may contract with third-party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.
Please review their privacy policies, which are indicated below, for more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf.
Depending on the Site, we use the following types of cookies:
Persistent Cookies. We use persistent cookies to improve your experience using the Sites. This includes recording your acceptance of our cookie policy to remove the cookie message that first appears when you use the Sites.
Session Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.
You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Sites.
The data collected by the Sites and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will only be kept for as long as necessary to fulfil the abovementioned purposes. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.
Our Cookies are used for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary/ Technical
These cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Sites so you can access them as requested. These cookies, for example, let us recognise that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site content. They also include cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions during the same browsing session and secure our Sites.
Analytical/ Performance
These Cookies are used by us or third-party service providers to analyze how the Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these cookies track the most frequently visited pages and where our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the Sites, these Cookies may be associated with you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies.
Functionality
These cookies let us operate the Sites according to your choices. They also permit us to “remember” you between visits. For instance, we will recognise your user name and remember how you customised the Sites and services by adjusting text size, fonts, languages, and other parts of web pages that are alterable, and we will provide you with the same customisations during future visits.
Third-Party Advertising
These cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you with targeted advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the Sites for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies. They may use their Cookies to target advertising on other websites based on your visit to our Sites.
How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to the use of Cookies?
If you do not want cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the settings of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some cookies and to alert you when a cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access or use all parts or functionalities of our sites.
If you want to remove previously-stored cookies, you can manually delete them anytime. However, this will only prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on your device if and when you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.
For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe or www.aboutads.info/choices if you are in the United States.
How do we use Other Tracking Technologies in our communications?
Chathams may collect information about whether you open or click any links in the knowledge, research or event communications we send you through web beacons.
A web beacon is a graphic image placed on a website or in an email that, alone or in conjunction with cookies, compiles information about your usage of or interaction with Chatham’s website or email. For example, we may add web beacons to the knowledge, research, or event communications we send you to determine whether you have opened our email or clicked a link. The analysis gathered helps us improve the effectiveness of the content and format of our websites and email communications.
How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to using Web Beacons?
You may avoid web beacons by configuring your email reader program to disable the functionality that enables remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on any links in email messages.
Contact us
If you have any other questions about our Cookie Policy, please get in touch with us at privacy@chathams.co