Cookie Policy

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies usually are small text or image files that can be saved via a web browser to a visitor’s computer, tablet, or phone. They keep information about preferences and activities on the site, helping to greatly improve user experience.

Upon repeated visits, this information is sent back to the website to allow the website’s operator (or authorised third parties) to aggregate, analyse and use this data to improve the security, operation, functionalities, features, and content of the website, app or portal.

Cookies are used by the vast majority of websites and are not generally used to collect sensitive personal data or to identify a particular person. The use of cookies is fairly wide – from saving personal settings such as preferred language or currency, through traffic counting to targeted ad targeting based on the users’ behaviour.

WHAT ARE WEB BEACONS AND HOW WE USE THEM?

Also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”, web beacons are small images that may be included on our sites. Together with cookies, these work to identify users and their behaviour. We may use web beacons to show you ads based on your preferences. Web beacons help us track and monitor our marketing activities.

WHY AND HOW WE USE COOKIES

Cookies allow us to correctly operate the website and/or and to make your website experience better by providing you with content that are more relevant to or in some cases tailored to you. For example, some cookies remember your custom preferences. This information can, in some cases, be carried from one visit of our website (or related site) to the next (for example, to help you avoid having to re-enter certain information when you visit the same page later). Some of these cookies require your consent (as explained below). You can remove any cookies already stored on your computer or mobile device (as explained below) but this may partly or fully prevent you from using certain functionalities, features or areas of this website or may display notifications you’ve already seen and dismissed.

Some cookies are created for each session when you visit our site, while others are persistent and may remain for a number of months or years to facilitate your access to our website.

Apart from the cookies we make use ourselves (“first-party cookies”), various third-party cookies may also be stored on your computer or mobile device.

CATEGORIES OF COOKIES

Generally, a cookie can be categorised:

1. By whether its use requires prior consent

Essential cookies are strictly necessary for our website or apps to function or for us to provide you with the service(s) you expect from us. Cookies used for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication are considered as essential cookies.

According to the European Commission’s EU Internet Handbook, we do not require your consent to use such essential cookies but you may still block or delete them (see below).

Non-essential cookies are not strictly necessary for the proper functioning of the website, although they may greatly enhance your experience.

TYPE	CATEGORY	PURPOSE/BEHAVIOUR/DESCRIPTION	IS YOUR CONSENT REQUIRED?
User‑input cookies (session-id)	Essential	First‑party cookies to keep track of the user's input when filling online forms, shopping carts, etc., for the duration of a session or persistent cookies limited to a few hours in some cases	No
Authentication cookies	Essential	To identify the user once he has logged in, for the duration of a session	No
User‑centric security cookies	Essential	Used to detect authentication abuses, for a limited persistent duration	No
Multimedia content player cookies	Essential	Used to store technical data to play back video or audio content, for the duration of a session	No
Load‑balancing cookies	Essential	Distribute client requests or network load efficiently across multiple servers, for the duration of the session	No
User‑interface customisation cookies	Essential	Such as language or font preferences, for the duration of a session (or slightly longer)	No
Third‑party social plug‑in content‑sharing cookies	Essential	For logged‑in members of a social network	No

Functionality/preference cookies	Non-essential	these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting. These cookies would also remember your custom preferences.	Yes
Advertising/marketing cookies	Non-essential	These cookies gather information about your browsing habits allowing us to provide you with more relevant content and to refine how our site operates (by adding features and functionalities we think you may find useful). These cookies are occasionally used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you based on your preferences and/or interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement.	Yes
Analytics/performance cookies	Non-essential	These cookies help us improve your user experience and the security of the site by recording user access and on-site interactions, such as when you first visited the site and/or how often you access it and at what particular time. These can also record how you came across the site, using which search engine or other link.	Yes

2. By its lifespan

Session cookies will be deleted from your device when you close your browser (or shortly after). They allow information to be kept when browsing from one page to another, eliminating the need to re-enter some data.

Persistent cookies remain in your device even after you close your browser depending on their settings or your device. This type of cookies is used to identify a user when visiting a website repeatedly.

3. By the domain to which it belongs:

First-party cookies are created by a script running on the same domain and serve primarily to ensure the basic functionality of the site, traffic analysis, and so on.

Third-party cookies are created by a script that is dragged to the site from elsewhere (for example, through a small, transparent image) and allows to track users across domains. This is used, for example, by various advertising systems or social networks.

SPECIFIC COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

As a result of your interaction with the site, a number of cookies are created. You can see the full list of these cookies here.

HOW TO DISABLE COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE

We only place non-essential cookies on your computer or mobile device if you consent to the use of that specific category of cookie. You can control and update your preferences and consent by using our slide-up cookie control panel, which you will see on our website the first time you visit it and possibly subsequently (if necessary). This does not affect your rights or prevent you from deleting or disabling cookies by modifying your browser settings as explained below.

You may withdraw such consent for non-essential cookies at any time by the same method in which you gave it to us.

HOW TO DELETE OR DISABLE COOKIES VIA YOUR BROWSER

Even if we use non-essential cookies with your consent and/or if we use essential cookies (where your consent is not required), you have the option of manually deleting, blocking or completely disabling individual cookies, entire categories of cookies or all cookies used by a website. Cookies can also be blocked or allowed only for individual websites or according to their type.

Please note, that if you reject all cookies (including essential cookies), you might be unable to use some of the features or services available on our website and you might also experience a lack of full functionality of the site.

If your browser is not configured, by default, to block all or certain cookies, you may manually modify your web browser preferences to do so. For detailed information on cookie settings, visit the specific browser’s website:

CHROME
FIREFOX
INTERNET EXPLORER
EDGE
SAFARI
OPERA
IOS
ANDROID

You may also find all the necessary information on how to make the necessary configuration settings by visiting the “All About Cookies” website.

CHANGES TO THE COOKIE POLICY

We reserve the right, at our complete discretion, to change, modify, add to and/or remove portions of this Cookie Policy at any time. If you are an existing client with whom we have a contractual relationship, you will be informed by us of any changes made to this Cookie Policy (as well as other terms and conditions relevant to the use of our website(s), apps or software systems. We will also archive and store previous versions of the Cookie Policy for your review.

As a user of the website with whom we have no contractual relationship or lawful way of tracing, it is in your interest to regularly check for any updates to this Cookie Policy (which are usually deemed to be effective on the date they are published on the website), in case our attempts to notify you of such updates do not succeed.

OUR CONTACT DETAILS

If you have any questions/comments about privacy or should you wish to exercise any of your individual rights, please contact us by writing to: matt.deboer (at) transitioncomputing.com or Transition Computing Ltd, Transition House, 2 Copperhouse Court, Caldecotte, Milton Keynes, MK7 8NL, United Kingdom.

Other policies that apply to our website(s), apps, systems, and services

General Terms and Conditions of Use

Acceptable Use Policy