Cookie Policy

Last updated: 02/05/2022

At https://www.west9consultancy.com/, we strive to honor the privacy and security of any data we collect from visitors using our website, while acting as a Personal Data Controller under relevant data protection rules and regulations.

Our website uses cookies, in combination with pixels, local storage objects, and similar devices (collectively, “cookies” unless otherwise noted) to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us provide you with a good experience, improve our service, and personalize ads and content for you while you use the site.

This  cookies policy  describes the types of cookies we use on the site and our purposes for using them.

If you have any questions about this Cookie Notice, please contact us at info@west9consultancy.com.

For a more complete description and list of the cookies we currently use on the Website, please review our Cookie List found in section 5 of this document.

For more information about our privacy practices, please review our “Privacy Policy“

Please read this Cookie Notice carefully for details on why we use cookies and the information we collect from you.

Cookie Settings

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device, which is like your computer’s memory.

First and third-party cookies: Whether a cookie is ‘first-party’ or ‘third-party’ refers to the domain that places the cookie.

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• • First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time (for example, cookies placed by our website domain).

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• • Third-party cookies are cookies set by a domain other than the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie.

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Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on the user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies: These cookies allow website operators to link a user’s actions during a browser session. A browser session begins when a user opens a browser window and ends when the user closes the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close your browser, all session cookies are deleted.

What cookies do we use and why?

The website generally uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the site and also allows us to improve our site. The cookies we may use on the Site can be categorized as follows:

• • Strictly Necessary

• • Performance

• • Functionality

• • Targeting / Marketing

*Some cookies may fulfill more than one of these purposes.

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‘SStrictly Necessary‘ cookies allow you to move around the website and use essential features like secure areas. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the services you have requested.

We use these strictly necessary cookies to:

• • – Identify you as being logged in and authenticated to the site;

• • – For security purposes;

• • – Ensure that when you connect to the service you want on the site when we make any changes to the way it works, it continues to work;

If you prevent these cookies, we cannot guarantee how the website or the security on the website will perform during your visit.

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‘Performance’  cookies collect information about how you use the website, for example which pages you visit and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how the site works, understand the interests of our users and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.

We use performance cookies to:

• • – Perform web analytics: Provide statistics on how the site is used;

• • – Perform affiliate tracking: Provide feedback to affiliates that one of our visitors also visited their site;

• • – Obtain data on the number of users of the site who viewed a product or service;

• • – Help us improve the site by measuring any errors that occur;

• • – Test different designs for the site;

*Some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties.

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Cookies ‘Functionality’ are used to provide services or to remember  your settings to improve your visit.

We use ‘Functionality’ cookies for purposes such as:

• • – Remembering settings you have applied, such as layout, text size, preferences and colors

• • – Remembering if we have already asked you if you want to fill in a search

• • – To remember if you have engaged with a specific component or list on the site so that it does not repeat itself

• • – To show you when you are logged into the site

• • – To provide and display embedded video content

*Some of these functionality cookies are managed by third parties

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‘Targeting/Marketing’ cookies are used to track your visit to the Website, as well as other websites, applications and online services, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, which enables us to display targeted advertisements to you on the Website.