Cookies and similar technologies

When you visit or interact with our sites we or our authorized service providers may use cookies and other similar technologies to monitor activity of our web service to ensure it meets our high level of quality, and ensure performance is maintained.

We hope the information below provides you with clear and comprehensive information about the technologies we use and the purposes for which we use them, but it you have any additional questions please contact privacy@wballiance.com.

Your consent

By continuing to use and navigate our sites you are agreeing to our use of cookies and similar technologies as described herein and in our Privacy Policy.  If you do not wish to accept these technologies in connection with your visit to or use of our sites please see additional options below available to control or delete our, or our service provider’s, use of these technologies.

What are cookies

These technologies are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device (“collectively, a “device”) that allows us to record information when you visit or interact with our websites, service, applications, messaging, and other tools. Though often these technologies are generically referred to as “Cookies,”.

Automatically collected Cookie information

Whilst visiting our website data may be collected, including information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information concerning the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use.

How your data on our website is collected and stored

Data will be collected on our website in the following ways:

a) Via web contact forms on our website

Data provided via our website forms is manually submitted by the user, and stored in an encrypted MySQL database.

b) Via Google Analytics tracking

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic and user behaviour, enabling us to enhance the user experience and analyse marketing.

Google use cookies to offer this service and their privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

All data is stored on Google’s secure servers. No personally identifiable information is tracked via google analytics. The IP address used during visits in anonymised.

c)Via web server tracking software provided with our web hosting

Our web hosting provider may track user behaviour and monitor potential security threats, and as such will collect data designed to keep the website operational and your information secure.

All data is stored on our web host’s secure servers and will be made available in association with a relevant data protection request.

d)Via browser cookies

Our website uses cookies, defined as a string or array of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer. Your browser provides this information on each visit to our websites.

Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website.

How to manage, control and delete cookies.

You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site.

Internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.

If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you will need to delete your cookies using your internet browser settings.

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