Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information stored by Your browser on Your computer’s hard drive. Cookies Do NOT contain any personal information and are only used to allow Us to understand who has seen which pages and advertisements, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited, to determine the most popular areas of the Site and generally in order to monitor usage of the Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, and a requirement of membership is being able to do so.
Types Of Cookies
There are two main types of cookies namely session and persistent cookies.
Session Cookies
Session cookies contain information which is used during your browsing session and do not have an expiration date. Session cookies are stored in memory and never written to disk. These types of cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser and the cookie is permanently lost from this point on.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies contain information which is used during your browsing session and do have an expiration date. Persistent cookies are stored on disk and are deleted from disk on the specified expiration date. Persistent cookies have a long-term value defined by the website and will vary from a few minutes, hours or several years. Persistent cookies help users in a few ways for example, storing your browsing preferences, your interaction functionality options and other services we provide to make your browsing experience easy and quick.
Please read more about cookies on the Information Commissioners Office ICO Website
Cookies We Use
Critical Cookies
Critical cookies are required for a site to function correctly and safely. They perform a task or operation without which a site’s performance would be compromised.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help with the basic functionality of a website. They enable additional features for a better user experience.
User Session Cookies
User session cookies are necessary and cannot be deactivated. They help the website recorgnise your previously save preferences and options.
Social Media Cookies
Social media cookies are set by Social Media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube, Google+ when you view or use embedded media. For example a cookie set by YouTube to measure views of an embedded video. These can sometimes track your activities on our website but disabling them may result is reduced user experience such not being able to watch videos.
Marketing or Advertisement Cookies
Marketing or Advertisement cookies are used to target or tailor advertising to a user (behavioral targeting). They are mostly served by third party partners, and can track a user across various websites.
Analytical or Audience Cookies
Analytical or Audience cookies are used to determine the usage of a website, these may track an individual users, but only to the extent to allow or enhance user experience through the site. They are not used for targeting adverts (Marketing Cookies)
Please note, the list above is not exhaustive which means there might be other cookies not detailed here.
Why We Use Cookies
Techrater uses cookies to ensure an optimum browsing experience on on website and also to improve the functionality of different interfaces, options, user preferences and web applications.
Clearing Cookies
There are various reasons you might want to clear your browser’s cookies and believe the user should be able to do so as and when they want. Please visit any of the corresponding resources below to clear or delete your cookies.
Clearing Cookies – The Information Commissioner’s Office Website
Information Commissioner Office
Clearing Cookies – Most Common Web Browsers
- Go to your browser Settings
- Look for Advanced or Privacy & Security Settings
- Look for Clear Browsing data
Clearing Cookies – Specific Web Browsers
Contacting Us
If You have any comments or queries in connection with Our privacy policy, please use the website CONTACT FORM
Last Updated October 2024