What are Cookies?

Code 9 Security Ltd collect information about your use of our website through cookies. Cookies are information files stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone that help websites remember who you are and information about your visit. Cookies can help to display the information on a website in a way that matches your interests. Most major websites use cookies.

What cookies are used on this Website?

The cookies our business partners and we use on this website are broadly grouped into the following categories:

Essential

Some of the cookies on our website are essential for us to provide you with the service you have requested. An example of this would be a cookie used to log into your account on the website or communicate between your browser and the website. Our cookie preference cookie described in the section “How can I reject or opt-out of receiving cookies?” is also an essential cookie. You may not be able to use our website without these cookies.

Analytics

We use analytics cookies to help us understand how users engage with our website. An example is counting the number of different people coming to our website or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited the website once each week for three weeks, we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our website was performing and improve it without these cookies.

Social Sharing

We use cookies to share content directly on social networking/sharing sites like Facebook, Instagram, X or Google My Business. Examples would be if you wanted to “like” or “tweet” about a business or product advertised on our website.

Interest-Based Marketing

You will have noticed that you will see adverts for products and services you may wish to buy when you visit websites. The money made by website owners for showing third party adverts on their websites often pays for the cost of running the website. It, therefore, usually allows you to use the website without having to pay a registration or usage fee. Code 9 Security, like many businesses, places adverts on a range of its partners’ websites. However, to ensure that the adverts you see are relevant to you, we use cookies to collect information about the types of things that interest you, such as websites you visit and the geography you are based in. Having these cookies does not increase the number of adverts you will see but makes the adverts more relevant.

How can I reject or opt-out of receiving cookies?

When you first visited this website, you will have been shown a message bar drawing your attention to the fact that this website uses cookies and inviting you to review this cookie policy to help manage your cookie preferences. If you do not manage your preferences despite this prompt, a cookie preference cookie will be dropped, confirming that you consent to us using the cookies detailed in this cookie policy; this cookie preference cookie will last for no more than 5 years.

Please note that we can’t always control third party cookies stored on your machine from our website, and where this is the case, you will need to visit the relevant third party’s website directly to manage cookies stored on your machine by them. Please see our “Third Party Cookies” section below.

If you want to reject cookies we use from this website, you will need to:

• delete the cookies from your browser. Most browsers also allow you to prevent all or some cookies from being stored on your machine in the future. For more information on how to delete or disable cookies from your browser, please use the “help” function within your browser or visit www.allaboutcookies.org. By deleting our cookie preference cookie the next time you visit this website, the cookie message bar will appear again, inviting you to reconsider your preferences; and/or

• if you only want to reject the Interest-Based Advertising cookies we store on your machine, you can opt-out of receiving these cookies at any time by going to the Internet Advertising Bureau website at http://www.youronlinechoices.com and following the opt-out instructions.

Please be aware that disabling cookies may impact the functionality of this website.

Third-Party Cookies

Some of the cookies described in the “What Cookies are used on this Website” section above are stored on your machine by third parties when you use our website. We have no control over these cookies or how third-parties use them. They are used to allow that third party to provide a service to us, for example, analytics.

If you want to know more about how cookies work and how to manage or delete them, visit the World Wide Web Consortium’s website.

We may update this policy from time to time, so you may want to check it each time you visit our website.