Cookie Policy

This site, in common with many others, uses cookies for various purposes. Below we explain what they are and how we use them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store things like user preferences.
A visit to a page on EGR Global may generate several types of cookie.
Some cookies are required for visitors to be able to log in to our sites.

Registration cookies

There are several ways you may register with EGR Global, for example you may sign up for a trial, subscribe to a newsletter or register for an event.
When you register, we generate cookies that let us know whether you are signed in or not.
Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service.
If you have not selected “Remember Me”, these cookies get deleted after 30 minutes.
While you are signed into our sites, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen on our sites.

Anonymous analytics cookies

Every time someone visits our website, software provided by another organisation generates an “anonymous analytics cookie”.
These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before.
Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don’t, we generate new ones.
This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site.
Unless you are registered with EGR Global, we cannot use these cookies to identify individuals. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as your username and email address.

Advertising cookies

These cookies allow us to know whether or not you’ve seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you’ve seen it.

Performance cookies

This type of cookies are used to improve your experience, for example our load balancer, that improves site speed, will use cookies to ensure your visit is not disrupted.

Other third party cookies

On some pages of our website, other organisations may also set their own anonymous cookies. They do this to track the success of their application, or to customise the application for you. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies, nor can the other organisation access the data in cookies we use on our website.
For example, when you share an article using a social-media sharing button, the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this