Cookie Notice
Introduction.
This Cookie Notice (the “Notice”) supplements the information contained in our Privacy Statement by explaining how Gaumard Scientific Company, Inc. (hereinafter “Gaumard” or “Our” or “We”) and Our business partners, including third party service providers and vendors, use cookies and other tracking technologies in the course of managing and providing Our online services and communications to you.
Our Sites use cookies and other technologies to distinguish you from other users of Our Sites and to help provide a good user experience when you browse Our Sites and to assist us to improve Our Sites. This Notice explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your options to control Our use of them. Unless otherwise stated, the terms used in this Notice have the same meaning as defined in Our Privacy Statement.
Cookies and Related Technologies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to uniquely identify you during a browsing session. Cookies allow us and Our third-party providers to collect certain information about your interactions with Our email communications, Sites, apps and other online services. There are two general types of cookies:
- Persistent Cookies are stored by a web browser and remain after you close your browser. These cookies may collect or transmit information every time you use Our Sites until such cookies are manually cleared or reach an expiration date. We typically use persistent cookies when we need to know who you are for more than one session (for example, to remember your preferences for the next time you access Our Sites or to help make navigation of Our Sites easier given your prior visits).
- Session Cookies typically disappear once you close your mobile application or browser.
We and Our third-party service providers and business partners may use both persistent and session cookies as well as other, related technologies to collect this information. These technologies collectively are referred to as “cookies” in this Notice and include web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, software development kits (“SDKs”), location-identifying technologies, and logging technologies.
How We Use Cookies
We use the cookies as listed below for the following purposes:
- Necessary Cookies. Necessary cookies help make Our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to specific areas of the website.
- Functionality or Preference Cookies. Functionality or preference cookies enable Our website and remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Marketing or Targeting Cookies. Marketing or targeting cookies collect personal information, such as your name, which pages you visit on Our website, how you arrived at Our website, and purchases that you may make from Gaumard’s Sites. The information that we collect is used to evaluate the effectiveness of Our marketing campaigns. Cookies set by third parties may find their way into this Marketing category, but Gaumard does not always have control over those cookies and does not share personal data with those third parties.
What We Collect When Using Cookies
We and Our third-party service providers and business partners may use cookies to automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit or interact with Our email communications, Sites, and other online services. The types of usage information we may collect includes:
- Log data about your device and software, such as your IP address, operating system, network, browser or device type, date and time of your visit, and similar information.
- Analytics data, including the use of third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics or other similar technology, to help us measure usage and activity trends at Our Sites and to better understand Our Site visitors.
We also use third-party advertising and personalization services to help us display personalized content and appropriate advertising on your visits to Our Sites. Cookies placed by Our third-party services or partners also assist us with measuring the performance of Our advertising campaigns.
Third parties also use cookies to deliver advertising on the internet, whether you are on Our Sites or on a website operated by others, based on your visits to Our Sites or to other websites. These parties also use
Your Choices About Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but it’s usually possible to modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. Most browsers will allow you to: (i) disable existing cookies; (ii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies; or (iii) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie (allowing you to decide whether to accept a cookie). You also may be able to set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain cookies that allow the email sender to know whether you have accessed an email sent to you or to perform certain functions with an email sent to you.
If you decide to decline cookies, you may not be able to use some interactive features of the Sites and services that depend on cookies. Depending on your device and its operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. In addition, if you want to reject cookies across all your browsers and devices, you will need to do so on each browser on each device you use.
If you have additional questions about this Cookies Policy and Our practices or if you have complaints about Gaumard’s use of your personal information, please contact us at:
Revised August 15, 2023