Cookies Policy

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Introduction

 

Welcome to or “Cookies’ Policy” section!

 

This website is operated and maintained by ​​Business Training & Consulting Services Ltd.

 

We take your privacy very seriously, therefore we urge you to read this policy very carefully because it contains

important information regarding the use of cookies in our website.

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We respect the privacy of its users, and we are committed to:

• Protecting their personal information

• Ensuring that the above information is used properly.

 

This policy describes:

• What you should know about cookies we may place on your device e.g. on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or iPhone

• The rights and choices available to you, and other visitors and users, regarding cookies.

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Definitions

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"​​Business Training & Consulting Services Ltd." is also referred to, in the rest of this web page, and other web pages comprising our website, as "BT&CS Ltd", "BT&CS", "we", "our", "us", "our company", or "our business" respects your privacy, and is committed to maintaining it, regarding the use of your personal information.

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"Our website", or this website refers to the totality of the web pages comprising the BT&CS website.

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"User", "you", "visitor", "your, or "individual refers to visitors of our website for information gathering purposes.

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Cookies are small text files that websites place on the computers and mobile devices of people who visit those websites.

• These files are then read by the website each time you return to the site.

• They allow a website to remember your device and how you interacted with the website, which is useful for a number of different purposes

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A Cookies' Policy informs the website users about the use of cookies by a website or an app.

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Please Read The Policy

 

We strongly urge you read this policy and make sure you fully understand and agree with it, before you access or use any of our services.

 

If you do not read, fully understand and agree to this Privacy Policy, you must immediately leave this website, application or service, and avoid or discontinue all use of any of our services. 

 

By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

 

Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

 

Business Training & Consulting Services, together with its marketing, analytics and technology partners, uses

certain monitoring and tracking technologies, such as cookies, tags and scripts, in order to:

• Maintain, provide and improve our Services on an ongoing basis

• Provide our website visitors, website users and their users-of-users with a better experience.

 

For example, thanks to these technologies, we are able to:

• Maintain and keep track of our visitors' and users’ preferences and authenticated sessions

• Make our services, communications, and other activities performed online, more secure against intentional or unintentional errors and cybercrime

• Identify technical issues, user trends and effectiveness of our marketing campaigns

• Monitor and improve the overall performance of our services.

 

Please note:  third-party services placing cookies, or utilizing other tracking technologies, through our services may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. Such practices are not covered by our Privacy Policy, since we do not have any control over them. 

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What Are Cookies?

 

In order for some technologies mentioned above to work properly, a small data file known as “cookie” is downloaded

and stored on your device.

 

Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the

user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a

tailored experience when they visit it.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers

hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block cookies from this

website and its external serving vendors.

 

Types of Cookies

 

There are two main types of cookies: user session and persistent.

 

User Session Cookies

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This type of cookies is deleted from your computer when you close your browser.

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We may use a session cookie, so that we remember:

• What is in your shopping basket

• At which stage of the order process you are.

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​Persistent Cookies

 

This type of cookies remains stored on your computer, until the cookies are either

deleted, or they reach their expiry date.

 

By default, we use persistent cookies for the purposes of:

• Session and user authentication

• Information security

• Keeping Users’ preferences, such as default language and settings, internet connection stability for e.g., uploading media, using e-Commerce features, etc.,

• Monitoring performance of our services and marketing campaigns

• Generally providing and improving our Services.

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​Analytical/ Performance Tracking Cookies

 

This type of cookies allows us to:

• Recognise and count the number of visitors on our website

• Recognise how visitors move around our website, when they are using it.

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This information helps us improve the way our website works, e.g. by ensuring that users are easily finding what they are looking for.

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Targeting Cookies

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This type of cookies records your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.

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We:

• Use this information to make our website, and the advertising displayed on it, more relevant to your interests.

• May share this information with third parties for this purpose.

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Behavioural Targeting/ Re-Targeting

 

Certain third-Party service providers and advertising networks may display advertising on our website, or manage our advertising on other websites. Such parties may use certain tracking technologies to collect certain information about your activities on their services and different third party websites, to

provide you with targeted advertising, based on your interests and preferences.

 

You may opt-out of receiving targeted ads from certain advertisers and networks,

or if you are based in any EU member state.

 

Please note this does not opt you out of receiving any advertising.

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What is Retargeting?

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Retargeting enables us to remind our customers of our products and services after

they leave our website without, e.g. booking a training course, raising a query, e.g.

for further information, etc..

 

It allows us to show our visitors relevant advertisements when they visit other sites.

 

Retargeting works with apps and search, as well as website banner advertisements.

 

Serious marketers (we do not fall in this category)  use retargeting as a vital tool to connect with their customers and increase their sales.

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Why do many websites warn visitors about cookies?

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You may have noticed that many websites are showing you  warnings about cookies when you first visit them.

 

I is usually some kind of pop-over dialogue window, containing a phrase like: "This site uses cookies - click here to accept".

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Following is an example:

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Social media companies such as Facebook, AOL, LinkedIn, Google, etc. use cookies

extensively using sophisticated technologies for marketing purposes.

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If you wander why you come across this kind of warning it is because of a legal directive

passed by the European Union in 2002 called the "ePrivacy Directive" (it is technically not a

law).

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However, a lot has changed after European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation, abbreviated

as GDPR, a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic

Area.

 

It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

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What does the cookie warning actually do?

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The warning is supposed to alert you that the website you're visiting will store cookies on your device.

 

Some websites include an option to control what kinds of cookies will be allowed from that site, letting you choose to only accept cookies required for basic functionality, or to also accept cookies which are related to advertising or tracking.

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Don't forget though, that cookies are not "good or bad", it is always the way that websites use them that matters.

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How We Use Cookies

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This website uses cookies to better the users' experience while visiting our website.

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Where applicable, this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user on their first visit to the website to

allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/ device.

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This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving

behind or reading files, such as cookies, on a user's computer / device.

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A number of our web pages use cookies to remember:

• Your display preferences, such as contrast colour settings or font size

• If you have already replied to a survey pop-up that asks you if the content was helpful or not (so you won't be

      asked again)

• If you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site.

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Also, some videos embedded in our pages, use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on:

• How you got there

• What videos you watched.

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Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

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The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

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How, can you, as website User control website cookies?

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You can:

• Control and/ or delete cookies as you wish

• Delete cookies that are already on your computer

• You can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed.

 

However, if you do any of the above:

• You may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site

• Some services and functionalities may not work.

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Deleting or Blocking Cookies

 

If you wish to delete or block any cookies, please refer to the:

• “Help and support area” on your internet browser, for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.

• Information on deleting or controlling cookies available at www.aboutcookie.org.

 

Please note the following:

• The above-mentioned website is not controlled by us, therefore, we cannot ensure its accuracy, completeness or availability.

• Deleting our cookies, or disabling future cookies or tracking technologies, may prevent you from accessing certain areas or features of our Services, or may otherwise adversely affect your user experience.

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​User Data Supplementation

 

We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties, from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. This helps us to update, expand and analyse our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.  

 

If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.

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“Do Not Track” Messages

 

Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application.

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