Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies in combination with pixels, local storage objects and similar devices, and technologies (collectively referred to Cookies in this policy) that we or our permitted service providers may use in connection with your interaction with our website and communications to enable the effective, efficient operation of our Website. 

This policy explains how we use Cookies, when your consent is required, how they are used on the Website, and it provides you with information as to how you can exercise your rights.  

     What are cookies?

     Cookies and Personal Data

     Our use of cookies

     Email

     How to contact us
 

What are cookies? 

Cookies are small data files that are placed on the browser of a visitor's device when the visitor accesses online content, leading to the recognition of that device when it interacts with, or returns to, our Website.

Cookies help us to provide a better experience by enabling us to monitor the online content our visitors find useful, and by gathering and remembering information about our visitors' preferences, such as which language to display, or font size to present.

There are different types of Cookies: 

  • Session cookies – these cookies last only for the duration of your session on our Website and expire when you close your browser. 
  • Persistent cookies - these cookies remain on your device for the period of time as specified in the Cookie. They are activated each time that you visit our Website.
  • Cookies that we place on our Website are called 'First party cookies', whereas cookies that are served from a separate website to the one you are visiting, are called 'Third party cookies'. 

Web beacons and SDKs 

Web beacons (also called 'pixel tags' or GIFs) are small image file elements placed within web pages and web-based messaging, including newsletters. These work together with cookies to recognise visitors and how the visitor interacts with that content. Using these tools we can better understand which content is of most interest to our visitors and subscribers. 

An SDK is a piece of data code that is included in mobile applications and works in a similar way. 

Cookies and personal data 

Cookies use unique codes that act as an identifier and can be treated as "personal data". This is because they can enable the user of a device to be uniquely recognised. 

Cookies are also typically used in combination with other identifiers such as the IP address for your device which is something that is automatically assigned to that device by your internet service provider. Your IP address is shared by your device when you access the internet and content is requested and displayed. 

We may automatically log your IP address in our server log files, whenever our website, applications or online content are accessed and this may then be associated with Cookies. 

Our Website contains essential and non-essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for our Website to work. We do not need your consent to operate essential Cookies on the Website. 

We do require your consent for non-essential cookies (European Union GDPR Article 6 section 1a, 1f ). You do not need to allow non-essential Cookies to visit our Website. However, enabling non-essential Cookies may allow for a more tailored browsing experience.  

Our use of Cookies 

The different Cookies we use on our website and how you can change your consent, are set out below.
 
Cookiebot

We make use of a service called Cookiebot.com. This is a service provided by the Danish company, Cybot who have installed a process on our website with the ability to monitor, record and act on any consent you provide throughout your visit to our website. For information on the personal data they collect and the purposes for which they use it please go to their privacy policy

Google Analytics

We also make use of Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"), which uses cookies to analyse how visitors use our Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our Website may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of measuring your activity on our Website, for compiling statistical reports on overall content interaction activity for us and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. 

When your personal data is transferred by Google to the US data centers servers, the protection of your personal data from surveillance and use by the US Government and its executive bodies, cannot be assured. You may not be able to exercise the extent of your rights and freedoms already available to you in the UK or EU. 

In order to maximise your data privacy we have activated the IP anonymisation feature of Google Analytics meaning that Google EU will truncate/anonymise the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union. 

You can prevent the collection of the data generated from the Google Analytics cookie cookie by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by opting out of us storing your preferences and statistic cookies via the cookie consent banner below. Downloading and installing a browser plug in whereby an opt-out cookie is set, or by selecting the appropriate setting in your browser software. 

You can also change the settings on your device:

  • In Chrome – open ‘settings’ then ‘privacy and security’, click Site settings. Click ‘cookies’ to turn cookies off.
     
  • In Safari – open ‘settings’ then ‘Safari’, ‘Privacy and security’ then click ‘block all cookies’.  Please note that it is not possible to block cookies in Chrome for iPhone or iPad due to restrictions placed on third-party browsers by Apple. If you use Chrome on iOS and wish to block cookies, you' will need to either browse in Incognito Mode or switch to Safari.
     
  • Chrome (Android) – tap the chrome menu button, then ‘settings’, ‘site settings’ then ‘cookies’ and toggle on or off. Please note that it is not possible to block cookies in Chrome for iPhone or iPad due to restrictions placed on third-party browsers by Apple. If you use Chrome on iOS and wish to block cookies, you will need to either browse in Incognito Mode or switch to Safari.
     
  • Firefox – click the menu button (the icon with 3 horizontal lines). Click ‘options’ then ‘privacy and security’. Click the radio button next to ‘Custom’. Click the drop-down menu next to cookies.  Click ‘all cookies (will cause the website to break). Click the checkbox next to ‘Delete cookie and site data when Firefox is closed’.
     
  • Microsoft Edge – Click the menu icon (3 dots in the upper-right corner).  Click ‘settings’. Click ‘privacy and ‘settings’. Click the drop-down menu below ‘cookies’. Click ‘block all cookies 

Further information can be found under Google Analytics Terms of Service & Privacy

 

The table below sets out, in more detail, the different categories of Cookies, how they function, which Cookies we use, how long they stay on your device and the reason why we use them. 

 

Email

Where you receive a communication from us such as an email, an event invitation or other we may collect information using Cookies about you in the following ways:

  • Event RSVP buttons: in our event invitations and confirmations we provide buttons to allow you to accept, tentatively accept, decline, cancel and register (if you are not the original recipient of the email) for that event. Clicking on these buttons will pass a cookie so we can record your choice in our database to help us manage the event. 
     

Contact information 

If you wish to know more about how we process your personal data, exercise your rights, or have further queries please see our privacy notice  or contact us enquiries@gasgovernance.co.uk

We may from time to time make changes to this policy.

This policy was last updated in December 2022.