This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your device to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or other device when you access the internet.
Why Are Cookies Essential to Alegre Associates’ Website?
This website, along with many others, uses cookies. Cookies help us to understand how users navigate around sites and in some cases let us tailor the content to fit the needs of our site’s visitors. None of the cookies we use collect your personal information and they can’t be used to identify you.
Types of Cookies
The length of time a cookie stays on your device depends on its type. We use two types of cookies on our website.
Session cookies are temporary cookies which only exist during the time you use the website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after using the website). Session cookies help our websites remember what you chose on the previous page, avoiding the need to re-enter information.
Persistent cookies stay on your device after you’ve visited our website. Persistent cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor but don’t contain information that could be used to identify you to another person.
At Alegre Associates We Use Cookies In The Following Ways:
- In our online application forms. Without cookies enabled users would not be able to apply for work opportunities.
- Identifying logged in users and those accessing our content management systems administration or login pages.
- Separating human users from bots, fake search engine crawlers, and identifying security threats.
- Analyzing user sessions and page views.
We also use web analytics services from other companies to track how visitors reach our site and the path they take through it. These companies use cookies to help us improve our service to you.
The Analytics Services We Use Are:
Google Analytics, which uses cookies to help us analyse how our visitors use the site. Find out more about how these cookies are used on the Google privacy site
Wordfence, which uses cookies to track website visitors in real time to provide live analytics and identify security threats.
How To Control And Delete Cookies
If you want to restrict or block the cookies we set, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you could visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on cookies on a wide variety of browsers. You’ll also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer. To learn about controlling cookies on the browser of your mobile device please refer to your handset manual.
Cookies in E-mails
As well as the cookies we use on our website, we use cookies and similar technologies in some e-mails. These help us to understand whether you’ve opened an e-mail and how you’ve interacted with it. If you have enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or device. Cookies will also be set if you click on any link within the email. The types of cookies we use are:
Web beacons: tiny, invisible images placed in emails to tell us whether you’ve opened them (and if so how often), how you interacted with them (for example the time you spent reading the e-mail), which e-mail software and web browser you used, which device you used and your IP address. We also use web beacons to help us display e-mails in the best format for your device.
Link tracking: our e-mails contain a number of hyperlinks, each of which has a unique tag. When you click on one of these links the mailing company logs the click so that we can understand who has clicked through from an e-mail to our website. We use this information to tailor future messages to you.
Cookies: our process for delivering e-mails may cause cookies to be set when you download images or when you click on a link.
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