Cookie Policy

This is the Cookies Policy for the website hosted at www.geospatial-insight.com The site is operated by or on behalf of Geospatial Insight Ltd trading as Geospatial Insight. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our Website Terms) sets out our use of cookies and other similar technologies on our site. It should be read in conjunction with our privacy policy https://www.geospatial-insight.com/privacy-policy/

What are cookies?

Our site use cookies and/or other similar technologies such as Google Analytics to collect and store certain information. These typically involve pieces of information or code that a website transfers to or accesses from your computer hard drive or mobile device to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies and similar technologies enable you to be remembered when using that computer or device to interact with websites and online services and can be used to manage a range of features and content as well as storing searches and presenting personalised content.

Our site uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies and similar technologies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that and your help screen or manual will tell you how to do this. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of our website if you do so.

A number of cookies and similar technologies we use last only for the duration of your web or app session and expire when you close your browser. Others are used to remember you when you return to the site and will last for longer.

We use these cookies and other technologies on the basis that they are necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or because using them is in our legitimate interests (where we have considered that these are not overridden by your rights).

What types of cookies do we use?

Strictly necessary cookies – these are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and under our terms with you. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical/performance cookies – they allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us for our legitimate interests of improving the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies – these are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us, subject to your choices and preferences, to personalise our content, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting[/Advertising] cookies – these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information subject to your choices and preferences to make our website/App and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

We may also work with advertising networks that gather information about the content on our website you visit and on information on other websites and services you visit. This may result in you seeing advertisements on or our advertisements when you visit other websites and services of third . For more information about how to turn this feature off see below or visit http://www.youronlinechoices.co.uk

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them here:

Google Analytics – one of the most trusted analytics solutions on the web, Google Analytics helps us understand how you use the site and whether we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

YouTube – Some videos on our website are hosted on YouTube, when you view them Cookies are used to provide statistical analysis and to estimate bandwidth on pages integrated with YouTube.

How long do cookies typically last for?
Except for essential cookies and session cookies (session cookies expire when you leave the website), all cookies used on our site will expire after two years.

How do I disable cookies?

The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable but, in general, the website may not operate properly if all cookies are switched off. If you only disable third party cookies, you will not be prevented from making purchases on our site. If you disable all cookies, you will be unable to complete a purchase on our site.

If you want to disable cookies on our site, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below: –

For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”
Click on the “privacy” tab
Select the setting the appropriate setting

For Google Chrome:

Choose Settings> Advanced
Under “Privacy and security,” click “Content settings”.
Click “Cookies”

For Safari:

Choose Preferences > Privacy
Click on “Remove all Website Data”

For Mozilla firefox:

Choose the menu “tools” then “Options”
Click on the icon “privacy”
Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options

For Opera 6.0 and further:

Choose the menu Files”> “Preferences”
Privacy
Where you have not set your permissions, we may also separately prompt you regarding our use of cookies on the Site.