COOKIES
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Our websites use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are created and stored on your computer (or internet-enabled device) by the websites you visit. They are widely used in order to improve websites’ efficiency and to provide usage information to website owners.
2. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites in order to help us to improve your user experience when you browse our websites. For example, cookies allow you to navigate between pages efficiently and to log-in to areas of the websites for which you have chosen to register.
3. WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

Our websites use two types of cookie (using the categories adopted by the International Chamber of Commerce UK’s (“ICC”) Cookie guide):

  • strictly necessary cookies; and
  • performance cookies.
4. STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
4.1 These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our websites and to allow the features of the sites to work correctly. Without these cookies, certain services you request – such as navigating between pages – cannot be provided.
4.2 We use the following strictly necessary cookies on our websites:
N/A
5. PERFORMANCE COOKIES / TECHNOLOGIES
5.1 These cookies enable us to collect information about how you use our websites or read our publications, for instance, which pages are viewed by visitors most frequently. All information collected in this way is used to improve the functionality of our websites or the effectiveness of our client publications.
5.2 We use the following performance cookies on our websites:
Cookie Name:
Google Analytics: _ga
Where Used:
These cookies are used across NOVA8’s main website, and on subdomains.
Purpose:
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our sites. We use the information to
compile reports and to help us improve our websites. The cookies enable us to collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the sites, where visitors have come to the sites from and the pages they visited.
Further information:
The _ga cookie is used to distinguish users and expires after 2 years.
6. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our websites link through to third party websites which may also use cookies over which we have no control. We recommend that you check the relevant third party’s privacy policies for information about any cookies which may be used.
7. CONSENT AND CONTROL
7.1 When you sign up via our websites to receive services which we are aware use performance cookies or clear gifs (or their equivalent), we will inform you as part of the registration process and ask you to consent to these. If you do not wish to consent then please do not sign up for the service.
7.2 If you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are created or stored by individual websites, you can generally do this through your browser settings. The “Help” function within your browser should tell you how.
7.3 Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.allaboutcookies.org which contains information on how to block cookies from a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies.
7.4 Please note that by deleting or blocking cookies, our websites may not function correctly and you may not be able to access certain areas.
8. CHANGES
We may update this Cookie Policy in the future and so encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are using cookies. We are under no obligation to notify you of changes to this Cookie Policy. This Cookie Policy was last updated on 13 March 2019.
9. FURTHER INFORMATION
9.1 You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org.
9.2 If you have any questions or comments regarding this Cookie Policy, please email info@nova8.co