h1>Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy forms part of our Privacy Statement.
This document explains our use of cookies to improve the overall user experience and ensure practical functionality. Occasionally, we also use cookies to provide marketing information or advertise online, either directly or through third-party vendors.
Introduction
This Cookie Policy is part of our Privacy Statement. For more details about us and how we protect visitor information, please see our Privacy Statement.
To provide you with a more personalized and responsive service, we need to remember and store information about your Website use. We achieve this through small text files called cookies. Cookies contain small amounts of digital information and are downloaded to your computer or device by our Website server. Your web browser then sends these cookies back to our Website on each subsequent visit to recognize you and remember your preferences. You can find more detailed information about cookies at http://www.aboutcookies.org/.
Whenever you use this Website, we may collect information through cookies and other technologies. By using this Website, you agree to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Notice. This also applies to the use of cookies on other country, regional, or practice-specific websites within deloitte.com, as described in their accompanying cookie notices.
We collect information through automated means. We gather this information through cookies, web beacons, pixels, server calls, web server logs, JavaScript, and other tracking technologies. These technologies help enhance our services and deliver relevant content, products, services, and advertising.
Opting out of Advertising Cookies is device-specific and may not remove ads from the pages you visit. It means that the ads you see may not align with your interests.
What cookies do we use and why?
We use some cookies to enable you to move around the Website and use features like accessing secure areas for registered users.
Functional cookies record your choices, allowing us to tailor the site to users. For example, we remember your language or region. We also remember if you’ve completed a survey. This information is usually anonymised and used solely for this purpose. Gathering essential user information is crucial for the smooth functioning of modern websites.
We or our service providers use analytics to understand content effectiveness and user interests and improve the website. Web beacons or tracking pixels help us count visitors, and performance cookies track user access frequency. We use this data for statistical purposes and do not aim to identify users personally. If you have registered and signed in, we may combine this information with web analytics data to analyse your Website usage in detail.
With your permission, this site may use targeted cookies to deliver advertising relevant to your interests and limit advertisement frequency. These cookies remember your Website visits and may share this data with advertisers.
Cookies serve four main functions and can be categorised as follows:;
- ‘Strictly necessary’ cookies
- ‘Performance’ cookies
- ‘Functionality’ cookies
- ‘Targeting’ or ‘Advertising’ cookies.
Please contact us if you would like more detailed information on the cookies we use.
Information we obtain from cookies.
The information we obtain through cookies includes details about your computer, device, and browser configuration. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, device specifications, and language preferences. We may also collect your mobile device or advertising ID, referral URLs, and interactions with our platform. These interactions involve viewed content, past usage patterns, access times, and email and advertising engagements. We may also record frequent searches for articles and details about additional software or hardware. Enhancing your overall website experience is our priority. Cookies enable various functionalities, such as user registration for comments and visitor traffic analysis.
Respecting users’ privacy is paramount to us. We use cookies to monitor and enhance our services. They also facilitate tailored advertising campaigns based on your interests and browsing behaviour to ensure our content remains freely accessible to our readers. Occasionally, we feature links to products and services from third-party vendors. We may receive commissions for purchases made through these links. Cookies track visits to third-party sites to ensure accurate compensation. These commercial agreements do not affect our editorial content.
Upon accessing our platform from a mobile device, we may collect information specific to that device, such as a unique device identifier (UDID), mobile phone number, and details about your mobile carrier.
How to control cookies
By using this Website you agree that we can place cookies on your computer or device as explained above. However, you can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please bear in mind that removing or blocking cookies can impact on your user experience and parts of this Website may no longer be fully accessible.
Please be aware that disabling or blocking any or all cookies may result in some features of the ABS Accountancy Ltd not functioning as intended, or you may lose access to features or personalisation options available through the ABS Accountancy Ltd. For instance, disabling or rejecting cookies on the site may prevent you from accessing certain features, such as video content or services requiring sign-in or recognition of your commenter ID.
Browser control
Most browsers will allow you to see what cookies you have and delete them on an individual basis or block cookies from particular or all websites. Be aware that any preference you have set will be lost if you delete all cookies, including your preference to opt-out from cookies as this itself requires an opt-out cookie to have been set. For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, see http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/.
Managing Analytics cookies
You can opt-out of having your anonymised browsing activity within websites recorded by analytics cookies. We use the following service providers and you can learn more about their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their cookies by clicking on following links:
Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html
Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Marketo: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html
Managing Local Shared Objects or Flash Cookies
A local shared object or flash cookie is like most other browser cookies except that it can store additional types of information. These cookies cannot be controlled using the mechanisms listed above. Some parts of this Website use these types of cookies to store user preferences for media player functionality and without them some video content may not play properly. These cookies can be controlled manually by visiting the Adobe website.
We harness the insights obtained from cookie usage to refine our products and services, including identifying popular content. Additionally, cookies allow us to connect your interactions on our platform with the personal data we possess about you. For instance, if you’ve expressed interest in receiving information about upcoming products or promotions, cookies enable us to tailor the content we deliver to match your online interests and preferences.
Social Buttons
We use ‘social buttons’ to enable our users to share or bookmark web pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites and these sites may log information about your activities on the Internet including on this Website. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information and to find out how to opt-out, or delete, such information.
Advertising Cookies
Our service providers employ Advertising Cookies to deliver personalised ads tailored to your interests. These cookies enable us to customise the advertisements and content you encounter on our platforms, conduct interest-based advertising, limit ad exposure frequency, and evaluate advertising campaign effectiveness.
Advertisers use them to chart ad campaign effectiveness by tracking users’ clicks. Additionally, they provide security in transactions. Usually, third-party advertising networks place them with a website operator’s permission. However, website operators can place them too. These trackers remember your visits and share this information with other organisations, including advertisers. Importantly, they cannot determine who you are because the data collected never links to your profile.
External Web Services
We sometimes use external web services on the site, to display content within the web pages of this website, for example to display images, show videos or run polls. As with the social medial buttons, we cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of embedded content. These third parties may utilise their cookies to gather information on our and other website.
We engage analytics services from third parties to generate Analytics Cookies on our behalf. While we may not directly access these cookies, we leverage the statistical insights derived from them to personalise content and fulfil other purposes outlined earlier. These third-party entities may share this information with other parties as required by law or as part of their service provision. Additionally, third-party advertisers and organisations may deploy their cookies to monitor your activities on our website and to analyse the effectiveness of their advertisements.
Please note that we do not govern the use of these third-party cookies, and their utilisation is subject to the respective policies of the third-party entities. For further details on these cookies and how to manage them, please consult the relevant policies on third-party websites.
Communications
We may employ tracking technologies to determine if you have read, clicked on, or forwarded specific emails to enhance our communications’ relevance. To opt out of email tracking, unsubscribe; without tracking, we cannot send these emails. Registered subscribers can update their preferences by contacting us or following instructions in email communications. We reserve the right to amend this Cookie Policy at our discretion, with revisions reflected on this page.
Changes made to browser or device settings or opting out via an online link impact the device where you make these changes. Disabling or blocking cookies may impair site functionality, limiting access to features like video content or sign-in services.
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