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Cookie Policy
This is the Cookie Policy for Carousel Web portfolio of online technical publications - DefenseFile.com; NewMaterials.com; ProHealthServiceZone.com; ProSecurityZone.com; ProManufacturingZone.com and for our Corporate Website - CarouselWeb.com
We refer to ourselves variously as Carousel Web / ”we”/ “us” / “our” throughout this policy document.
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What is a Cookie?
A Cookie is a simple information text file that our website’s server transfers to the cookie file on your device (e.g. you PC, Smartphone or Tablet). Only that server can retrieve and read the contents of that cookie. Cookies contain information about your visits to us and the purpose of the cookie is to enable our websites to remember you and your browsing patterns, when you visit us again. Cookies are not executable programs and, hence, it is impossible for cookies to contain viruses, or applications and, also, being very small, storing cookies runs no risk of clogging up your devise’s hard drive.
For further information about cookies, please visit http://allaboutcookies.org
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How we use Cookies
Cookies help us plan the content and layout of our site and recognise returning visitors and, therefore, they play an important role in helping us enhance the usability and performance of our site to improve your visits.
We do not use Cookies to collect information that could identify you personally during your visits. The only exception to this is where you create a login to manage your Company Contacts and Details through our secure Members’ login centre.
Types of Cookie that may be used during your visits are:
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Session Cookies
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We set these to enable us to keep track of your movement forward and back from page to page and site to site. They are automatically deleted when you close your browser.
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Persistent Cookies
(also known as Permanent Cookies)
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? used by banks and train lines
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Anonymous permanent Cookies
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We use these to identify repeat visitors and to gather web statistics on our own servers for analysis and improvement purposes. No personally identifiable information is gathered in this way.
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Login detail Cookies
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We use these to identify users who manage their own company information.
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First Party Cookies
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Third Party Cookies
See below
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These are placed by the following reputable domains to help us track visitor behaviour so that we can measure and validate the performance of our websites (e.g. Google Analytics) and, in some cases, as an additional revenue raiser (Google Adwords).
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Google Analytics
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These track which pages on the site are most commonly used, the number of visitors to the site, the ensuing page views, which browsers visit, entry pages etc. For more information on Google Analytics, we recommend you visit Google's privacy policy pages.
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Google Adsense
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and in particular What information does Google use to serve me ads?
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Twitter
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Although a US-based entity, Twitter complies with the U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement.
Refer to their cookie policy at https://twitter.com/privacy.
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Tynt
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Tynt only tracks what is being copied from the sites that use Tynt Publisher Tools. The data they manage consists of the keywords and phrases associated with user behaviour on the Web. They never collect any personally identifiable information. Tynt provides useful opt-in/opt-out information at http://www.tynt.com/tynt-users-opt-out.
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How to control and delete cookies
If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can change your browser setting to alert you when cookies are sent to you or you can refuse cookies completely. You can set your browser to accept or reject all specific ‘cookies’. You can, also, delete cookies that have been already set. But, please, remember that if you prevent us from placing Cookies during your visit or you, subsequently, delete a Cookie that has been placed this will restrict features of our websites.
Carousel Web will not use Cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the Cookies which are set by us, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete Cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about Cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device you will need to refer to your handset manual.
This Cookie Policy was released in October 2012. See also our Privacy Policy.
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