What are cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely (but anonymously) identify your browser or device. They are unable to search your computer in any way, cannot introduce viruses to your computer and contain no personal identifying information about you

What are cookies used for?
Cookies are used by sites or services when they want to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. These cookies on your computer or device can then be used to help remember your preferences (such as language), help you navigate between pages efficiently, and generally improve your browsing experience.

Similarly, cookies are used by web publishers to help understand how their site or service is being used. Services such as Google Analytics use cookies to provide anonymous aggregated data such as how long users, in general, spent on the site, how many pages they visited and in which order etc.

Cookies can also be used for online advertising – by aggregating the very basic information cookies gather, informed guesses could be made about your demographic and ads targeted to you thusly. Or more simply – if you go to a site about watches, it may drop a cookie on your computer, so the next sites you go to will then contain ads about watches.

What types of cookies does ARSI use?
There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” ARSI routinely uses these types of cookies: “Strictly Necessary”  and “Performance”

Here is some information about each cookie category:

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the ARSI site and use its features. For example – the cookie to say you have/have not allowed cookies to be used on this site.
2. Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the ARSI site, for example, Google Analytics, which is used to track basic user behaviour on this site so we can try and improve our users’ experience.
3. Targeting Cookies. If a site has advertising partners or other third-party partners, they may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than ARSI.
   ARSI does not use Targeting cookies.
4. Functionality Cookies. ARSI do not use these types of cookies, but just so you know: these cookies allow sites/services to remember how you’re logged in, when you logged in or out, and possibly anything you’ve done on a site while logged in. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.

How long will cookies stay on my device?
The amount of time a cookie stays on your device is variable: the majority of cookies expire after the end of your browsing session– others persist for longer.

First and third party cookies
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to ARSI, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our site. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for ARSI, for example, to help us understand how our service is being used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by a business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet.
ARSI does not use third party cookies.

How to control and delete cookies
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the 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.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.