What is a “cookie”?
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. You consent to us placing non-essential cookies on your computer or device by continuing to use our website with your browser settings set to accept cookies.
A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
We use cookies:
VSS-Virtual Support Specialist website may gather information about your general Internet use by using cookies in order to help you personalise your online experience. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. We use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate
our website;
(b) personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise
the website for you;
(c) analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and
services; and
(d) cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more
generally.
Some of our service providers also use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when
you visit our website. These are the third party service providers that store cookies when you visit our
website:
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about
website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create
reports about the use of our website. Google’s Privacy Policy is available at:
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.)
Choosing to refuse cookies Changes to our cookie policy Contact
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies,
but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you do not know how
to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the
most commonly used web browsers:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Apple Safari
- If you have any comments, questions and requests regarding cookies, please use the contact details listed on our page to get in touch
- Any changes we may make to our cookie policy in the future will be posted on this page.
- You can block cookies by activating a setting in your browser which allows you to refuse a website from setting cookies. However, if this option is enabled you may be prevented from accessing areas of our website or using some of the features we provide. Unless you activate the setting to refuse cookies in your browser, our website will automatically set and remove cookies on your computer/device.
- Please be aware that some third parties (such as advertising networks and analytics software) may also use cookies over which we have no control.
For further information on how we handle personal information please refer to our Privacy Policy
https://vss-virtualsupportspecialist.com/Privacy-Policy/