Cookie Policy

Effective date: June 28, 2024

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve the performance and security of our site. This Cookie Policy explains how we do that.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Cookies allow a website user to distinguish the activities carried out from your device from other users of that website. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser or device if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites.

By using this website, you agree and consent that we and third parties can store and access cookies, IP addresses and use other tracking technology methods to enable the website functionality, collect aggregated data about website usage, improve your online experience and manage and tailor our advertising and service communications with you. There are means of disabling cookies as set out below if you choose to do so. However, this may affect your use of the website. See below for more information about what cookies are and how we use them.

What sort of cookies does Pathway Software use?

Our website may use different types of cookies. Session cookies exist just for your session on our website and persistent cookies exist for a period of time after your visit. First-party cookies are cookies set by our website and third-party cookies are set by third-party platforms. We may utilise both session and persistent cookies and first and third-party cookies.

We may use the following types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. 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 or performance cookies. These 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 to improve 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 to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting 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 to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

What specific cookies do we use?

Cookie and Provider	Category	Privacy Notice of Provider
Microsoft (ARRAffinity, AFFRAffinitySameSite, ai_user, ai_session, _uetvid)	Strictly Necessary, Advertising and Performance	https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
Microsoft Bing (_uetsid, MUID, MR)	Advertising and Marketing	https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
Google Analytics (_gid, _ga_*, _ga, _gat_gtag_, _gat_UA-**)	Analytics and Performance	https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Google Adsense (_gcl_au)	Advertising and Marketing	https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Google reCAPTCHA (_grecaptcha)	Advertising and Marketing	https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Google DoubleClick (IDE, test_cookie)	Advertising and Marketing	https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Google Docs (COMPASS, S)	Performance	https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
YouTube (VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, TESTCOOKIESENABLED, nextId, YSC, VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA)	Advertising and Marketing	https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/protecting-user-data/
Cloudflare (_cfuvid, _cf_bm)	Functional	https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
Vimeo (vuid)	Functional	https://vimeo.com/privacy
LinkedIn (AnalyticsSyncHistory, UserMatchHistory, bscookie, li_sugr, bcookie, lidc)	Advertising and Marketing	https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Facebook (fr)	Advertising and Marketing	https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Does anyone else use cookies on our Site?

We utilise third parties, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies. We may also use third party cookies to help us with market research, improving website functionality, and enforcing website terms and policies. For example, like many companies, we use Google Analytics to help us evaluate our website traffic. You can see how Google Analytics uses cookie information across various websites by visiting https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, or any successor webpage that Google may provide. Opt-out functionality for Google Analytics can be found here.

Can a website user block cookies?

Modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can set your browsers or devices to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised features cannot be provided to you, and accordingly, you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the website's features.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Note that when you opt out of personalised advertising, you may continue to see online advertising on the Site and/or our ads on other websites and online services. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.To deactivate the use of third-party cookies, use the switches below:

Enables storage (such as cookies) related to advertising

Analytics

Enables storage (such as cookies) related to analytics e.g. visit duration

Functionality

Enables storage that supports the functionality of the website or app e.g. language settings

Personalisation

Enables storage related to personalisation e.g. video recommendations

Security

Enables storage related to security such as authentication functionality, fraud prevention, and other user protection

Also, the following websites provide useful information about cookies, and may permit you to control the use of cookies by certain third parties:

Network Advertising Initiative:

Browser Opt-Out: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices

Digital Advertising Alliance:

Browser Opt-Out: http://www.aboutads.info/choices

Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our websites do not work properly.

More Information

More detail on how businesses use cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.

What about changes to this Cookie Policy?

We may revise this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes in our use of cookies, changes in the law, changes in our services, or best practices. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically.