Cookie Policy

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IDMC Cookie Policy

On this page, you will find information on what cookies are used in this site and how to reject or delete those cookies if you wish.

If you wish to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset user guidance

Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.

How IDMC Uses Cookies

Cookies allow IDMC to recognise devices and track how our visitors use www.idmc-innovation.com. We use cookies that are essential for you to navigate the website or provide you with basic website features. Data collected from some cookies helps us enhance the performance of our website and offer you a better user experience.

There are several types of cookies that are used to keep track of information needed by a site user as they travel from page to page within a website. The aim of the following list is to provide you with an understanding of the types of cookies we use and the information in this list was accurate as at September 2020 to the best of our knowledge.

First-party cookies

The domain specified in the cookie relates to the cookie’s owner (the “party”), who has set the cookie.

www.idmc-innovation.com cookies will have the website address domain specified in a cookie

www.idmc-innovation.com uses first party cookies for Google Analytics and gtag.js and analytics.js are both used.

Session cookies

These are temporary bits of information that are erased once you exit your web browser window or otherwise turn your computer off. Session cookies are used to improve navigation on websites and to collect aggregate statistical information.

Other third party processing activities

If you shorten our site URLs, for example on Twitter or Facebook, we may use services such as goo.gl to do so, and our site works with these to rebrand our URLs as a https://www.idmc-innovation.com link. Also our website sometimes offers features that allow users to share links with social networks and our site may shorten that URL using one of these services.

These services provide us with anonymised, aggregated statistics relating to the use of our shortened URL, for example by telling us how many times it has been clicked on.

For more information on these services please see below the Privacy Policy for the Google url shortener, goo.gl.

Google Analytics

We currently use Google Analytics to measure and analyse visitor information related to our web site. For that purpose internet traffic data and data on your browser type and PC are collected using several cookies:

_utma is used by Google Analytics to identify first-time site (‘unique’) visitors rather than returning visitors. It expires after two years

_utmc identifies unique visitors rather than returning visitors. It expires when you close your browser.

_utmb is used for general visitor tracking and expires after 30 minutes.

_utmz tracks source visits (the origin of the visit). It expires after six months.

_utmt is used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. It expires after 10 minutes.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. For information on how to reject or delete this cookie please visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html for more information.

Cookies Set by Third Party Sites

We sometimes embed media content from third party websites. For example, this could include photos video content from websites such as YouTube and Twitter. As a result, when you visit a page with content from sites such as these, you may be presented with cookies from their websites. We do not control these so you should check the relevant third-party website for more information.

Social networks

IDMC websites may provide links to Third-party social networking sites such as Twitter. Such networking sites may use cookies or other methods to gather information regarding your use of our websites.

The use of such information by a third party depends on their published privacy policy and we encourage you to review those carefully. Such third parties may use these cookies or other tracking methods for their own purposes by relating information about your use of our site with any of your Personal Information they may have. We may also obtain analytics information from social networks that help us measure the effectiveness of our content and advertisements on social networks (e.g. impressions and clicks).

Rejecting Cookies

Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default, but it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies. If this is done it is important not to exclude the benign and useful cookies. Choose an option that rejects all third party and long-lived cookies.

Policy Review

For the avoidance of doubt all policies relating to GDPR and/or data protection (whether referred to on our intranet, the IDMC website or otherwise communicated to IDMC’s staff and/or any contractor and/or supplier and/or business contact of IDMC) are not contractually binding on IDMC and may be withdrawn or amended at any time. They will be under ongoing review and will be replaced with the latest versions accordingly.