Cookie Policy
Who we are
We are a data solutions business called greenstone data solutions. (“greenstone”). We are a division of Paragon Peterborough Ltd., registered in England and Wales under company registration number 02384773, whose registered office is at Lower Ground Floor, Park House, 16-18 Finsbury Circus, London, England, EC2M 7EB.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files which contain information about your internet usage that is held in your browser or on your computer's hard drive. There are different types of cookie: some are essential for the site to operate properly, whereas others are aimed at enhancing and personalising your user experience.
Why do we use cookies?
There are several reasons why we and most other websites use cookies. They allow us to distinguish you from other users of our websites and this helps us to improve our websites for your benefit. Cookies can help us to understand how consumers are interacting with our websites, which helps us to improve our sites and to deliver a better service to you.
By continuing to use our websites, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
What types of cookies do we use?
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we cannot provide some of the basic functionalities of our websites.
2. Performance Cookies
These cookies generally collect information about how visitors use our websites, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and the pages that they don't. This helps us to understand and improve the sites so it is easy to use and includes helpful content. They also allow us to fix bugs or glitches on the websites. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies visitors, so we can’t identify you individually.
3. Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow our websites to remember the choices you make as you browse the sites. They provide more enhanced and personal features. The information collected is anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites once you leave our sites.
4. Advertising or Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts which are more relevant to you, based upon the way you have used the websites in the recent past. They also enable us to put limits on the number of times you might see an advert – to hopefully stop them becoming annoying and repetitive. These cookies remember that you have visited the sites, track what products you may have looked at, and this information may be shared with our advertising partners.
If you see an advert from us once you have left our sites and are browsing other sites on the internet that magically seems to understand what you previously showed an interest in then this is enabled by targeting cookies. This enables advertising that is clearly more relevant to you as an individual, so we feel it offers a valuable service, which is why we use targeting cookies.
We work with Sub2 Technologies Limited ("Sub2") in order to maximise website user engagement. Sub2 helps us to use cookies, which are stored on your device when you visit our website. Data from these cookies is used to identify when you take certain actions on a website. This information is then used for the purposes of providing you with marketing which is more relevant to you and your interests.
We also work with Sub2 Technologies Limited ("Sub2") in relation to digital display advertising for our website. Sub2 works with third party advertising networks to let them know when to use cookies via our website. When cookies are used and stored on your device, data from these cookies is processed by Sub2 and by their third party advertising partners to serve you with advertising that is relevant to you, based on your previous browsing habits. The data is also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.
How to turn off cookies
You can turn cookies off at any time by going into your browser settings. However, this may have a detrimental effect on your user experience. If you are happy to continue letting us use cookies in the ways set out in this policy, to help us guide our work, then you need not do anything. If you have any concerns, or would like to know more about the cookies we use, please contact: compliance@gdsidm.com and put ‘cookies’ in the subject line.