Use of cookies by ascendworldwide.com

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by some websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

ascendworldwide.com requires cookies in order to operate fully. We also work with advertisers who place cookies on your computer to serve and target adverts more effectively.

Most web browsers allow some control of cookies through browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Further information about the cookies used by ascendworldwide.com is provided below. 

Cookies used by ascendworldwide.com

The following cookie categories are based on the classification presented in The International Chambers of Commerce (ICC) Cookie Guide.

Category 1: Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide services that you have requested.

Category 1 Cookies used by ascendworldwide.com:

Login

Although a login box is available on ascendworldwide.com – ascendworldwide.com does use login cookies. The services that you will be redirected to if you use our login box are outside of ascendworldwide.com. They may use cookies. You should refer to their privacy policies for more information.

Category 2: Performance cookies. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often.  The information collected by these cookies is aggregated, so these cookies don’t collect information that identifies individual visitors. The information collected is anonymous and is only used to improve the way our website works.

Category 2 Cookies used by ascendworldwide.com:

Web Analytics

Cookies are used to improve the design and user experience of our website by providing us with statistics on site usage and pages visited. We use analytics services provided by Google, Site Catalyst and Eloqua.

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Click to opt out of Site Catalyst Analytics

Embedded Videos

Most videos on ascendworldwide.com are hosted on YouTube.

YouTube uses cookies to collect video statistics and improve site experience.

Category 3: Functionality cookies. These cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more relevant features. 

Category 3 Cookies used by ascendworldwide.com:

Blog Comments

When commenting on blog posts, you can optionally choose to "Remember personal info". If ticked, we save your name, email address and website address in a cookie so that you do not need to type them in again the next time you comment on a blog. This simply saves you time and this information is not shared or used for any other purpose.

User Preferences Preference cookies remember settings you’ve applied to this site such as Layout, Default views, Search filters, Number of Search results per page, Video bandwidth etc.

Category 4: Targeting or Advertising cookies. These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.

Category 4 Cookies used by ascendworldwide.com:

Targeted Advertising

Advertising cookies are used by third parties to gather and send information to other websites so that they can present you with adverts you may be interested in.

These cookies can be linked to clicks on ‘Like’ or ‘Share’ buttons that may be used on this site.

ascendworldwide.com uses the following third party advertising networks:

  • DoubleClick / Google AdWords
  • AddThis

You may choose to decline these cookies by visiting the following sites.

Campaign Tracking

Campaign Tracking cookies are used to monitor how effective adverts, promotions and e-newsletters are. ascendworldwide.com tracks its own campaigns through:

  • DoubleClick / Google AdWords
  • Eloqua

 You may choose to decline these cookies:

  • By visiting the Google advertising opt-out page
  • If you would like to block cookies being set by Eloqua - you may do so through the preference settings on your browser

To contact us about the use of Cookies on this site please email eucookies@rbi.co.uk

Privacy policy

This website is owned and operated by Reed Business Information Limited Reed Business Information Limited ('RBI')

Information we collect from our customers and users of our websites may be used in the following way: 

Subscription Services 
Personal information provided as part of the registration process for any publication, product or service is used to manage your subscription and to enable us to provide a better service. 

Security 
Your personal data will be held on a secure server. Our sites are equipped with the latest security devices/firewalls. 

Access to Data

Under the Data Protection Act 1988. You have the right to be told what personal information we hold about you on our databases. You should write to us, attn Company Secretary at the following address: Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS. UK stating your full name, your address and any of our publications or services to which you know you subscribe. A small administrative charge may be made for fulfilling this request. 

Third Party Sites

Our website may link to other websites and we are not responsible for their data policies, procedures or their content.

Contacts

If you have any questions or concerns about privacy and security, please contact: webmaster@ascendworldwide.com

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