COOKIE POLICY


In this Cookie Policy, "UBM Medica" means UBM Medica Limited (registered company number: 00370721). The address from which we provide these online services is: UBM Medica, Ludgate House, 245 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UY.
We will collect, use or disclose your personal information if permitted by law or required to do so by law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to protect or defend us or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft fraud and other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our audit and security requirements, and to audit compliance with our corporate policies, procedures, legal and contractual obligations. Your personal card data will not be stored alongside your other personal data and will only be accessed for the purpose of processing refunds in a secure and controlled basis.


IMPORTANT:  BY USING OUR WEB SITES YOU GIVE YOUR CONSENT TO THE COOKIES DESCRIBED IN THIS POLICY.  For additional information on how personal data collected on our web sites may be processed and used by us data, please see the UBM MEDICA PRIVACY POLICY .

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A web cookie, a commonly used data collection technology, is simply a piece of code which can be placed on the browser of your personal computer or mobile device and subsequently read as you visit a web site.  A cookie may be a session cookie, that is, a cookie that remains on your browser while you are logged on to a particular web site and then disappears when you close your browser, or it may be a persistent cookie, a cookie that remains on your browser over a period of time.  Information from a cookie may be collected and used in aggregate form.  Or data may be collected into an individual profile or record.  That individual record may either be unique but anonymous, or the profile can be linked with information that identifies you as an individual.  
You can learn more about cookies, generally, at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

UBM Medica may use cookies for a number of purposes:
1.    We may use a limited number of cookies essential to particular services you have requested or for security purposes.   In particular, if you have registered for a site or use a customer portal we may use a cookie to authenticate the pc or mobile device that you are using.

2.    We allow third parties to set analytics, or performance, cookies to collect and report aggregate information. These cookies provide reporting to us on an aggregate basis and so, do not identify you at all. We use the aggregate reports to understand how our web sites are used and improve their usefulness to our audiences.

3.    A number of cookies also support how our web sites function, identifying your pc or end device on a unique but anonymous basis.  These cookies may, for example, remember your language preferences or recognize an individual's activity within a single session.

4.    If you register for a site, we use a cookie to associate your presence with a specific user name and password or account.  We may use a persistent cookie to recognize you automatically each time you return, but only if you ask us to do so.  We may also use cookies to prepopulate your login or forms you fill out on the site with information you have already provided.  Finally, we may use certain demographic information to enable third party ad servers (see below) to show you ads based on information about you in your business capacity, for example, your title within a company or the size of that company.

We also allow third party ad servers to serve their own cookies to display advertising on this web site.  In addition to cookies, tracking gifs may be set by us or third parties in respect of your use of the Site. Tracking gifs are small image files within the content of our site or the body of our newsletters so we or third parties can understand which parts of the website are visited or whether particular content is of interest. We do not determine, control or have access to their cookies or tracking gifs.  In addition, some of the ads they serve may generate their own cookies.  
Each third party ad server we use is listed so that you can review their privacy policies for more detail about their practices.


•    Burst Media - http://www.burstmedia.com/privacy.html
•    AdJug - http://www.adjug.com/info/privacy.asp
•    TDP - http://www.thedigitalpartnership.com/business-advertising/tdp_advertising_tandc.html
•    BBN - http://bbnnetworks.com/content/privacy-policy

 

HOW YOU CAN CONTROL COOKIES

The cookies we us are an accepted part of ecommerce and important to your use of our websites.  Performance cookies allow us to understand our audiences as a whole and improve how our sites meet your needs and expectations.  Many the functional cookies are basic to how our sites and services work.  The cookies we use for registration allow us to conduct our business online.  Our sites and services, or parts of them, may not work properly without these cookies.  
Your use of our websites indicates your consent to the cookies we have described in this Policy.
But if you should wish to revoke that consent, or any part of it, at any time you may control cookies and third party ad targeting in the following ways.

Browser controls.

Most modern browsers offer you ways to control or block cookies.  These browser controls will usually be found in the "options' or "preferences" menu.  For more help, you may take a look at the "Help" settings or review these website for more details:


Microsoft Internet Explorer

To disable cookies in Internet Explorer 7, 8 or 9:
 

  •     Click Tools > Internet Options
  •     Select the Privacy tab.
  •     Click Advanced.
  •     Select "Override automatic cookie handling" under the "Cookies" section in the Advanced Privacy Settings window.
  •     Select the "Block" or "Prompt" option under "First-party Cookies."
  •     Select the "Block" or "Prompt" option under "Third-party Cookies." (If you select the "Prompt" option, you'll be asked for approval every time a website attempts to send you a cookie.)
  •     In the Internet Options window, click OK to exit.


    
Mozilla Firefox

To enable cookies in Mozilla Firefox 3.x for Windows:
 

  •     Click Tools > Options.
  •     Click Privacy in the top panel.
  •     Set "Firefox will:" to Use custom settings for history.
  •     Check the box next to "Accept cookies from sites" to enable cookies.
  •     Click OK.


To enable cookies in Mozilla Firefox 2.x for Windows:
 

  •     Click Tools > Options.
  •     Click Privacy in the top panel.
  •     Remove the checkbox labeled "Accept cookies from sites."
  •     Click OK.


To enable cookies in Mozilla Firefox for Mac:
 

  •     Go to the Firefox drop-down menu.
  •     Select Preferences.
  •     Click Privacy.
  •     Set "Firefox will:" to Use custom settings for history.
  •     Remove the checkbox next to "Accept cookies from sites" to enable cookies.
  •     Click OK.


Chrome

To enable cookies in Chrome for Windows:
 

  •     Click the Tools menu.
  •     Select Options.
  •     Click the Under the Hood tab.
  •     Click Content settings in the "Privacy" section.
  •     Click the "Advanced" button.
  •     Select the checkbox "Override automatic cookie handling"
  •     Select the "Block" or "Prompt" option under "First-party Cookies."
  •     Select the "Block" or "Prompt" option under "Third-party Cookies." (If you select the "Prompt" option, you'll be asked for approval every time a website attempts to send you a cookie.)
  •     Select Allow local data to be set to allow both first-party and third-party cookies. If you only want to accept first-party cookies, check the box next to "Block all third-party cookies without exception."


To enable cookies in Chrome for Mac:
 

  •     Select Chrome > Preferences on the menu bar.
  •     Click the Under the Hood tab.
  •     Click Content settings in the "Privacy" section.
  •     Select Allow local data to be set to allow both first-party and third-party cookies. If you only want to accept first-party cookies, check the box next to "Block all third-party cookies without exception."


Safari

To enable cookies in Safari:
 

  •     Go to the Safari drop-down menu.
  •     Select Preferences.
  •     Click Security in the top panel.
  •     Under "Accept Cookies" select Only from sites you navigate to.



Third Party Advertising and Targeting

For ways to turn off third party ad targeting, in addition to any the third party ad servers, listed above, may offer, you may want to visit either of these websites:

The Internet Advertising Bureau UK. (http://www.iabuk.net/)
You can find more information or turn off targeting by member companies at YourOnlineChoices UK, (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/).

THIS COOKIE POLICY

We reserve the right to add to or amend this Cookie Policy at our sole discretion, without prior notice to you.  Please review our Cookie Policy on a regular basis to make sure you have read the latest version and you understand what we do with cookies and with your personal information. To contact us about this policy, you may email data-uk@ubmmedica.com.

This version of the Cookie Policy is effective as of 23th May 2012.

As described more fully in More Information About Cookies, we allow third party advertisers and advertising networks to serve third party advertising displayed on our sites. Their cookies may allow those advertisers to display ads to you once you have left our web pages. The ad servers we use as well as those used by third party advertisers may also read routine information about your browsers and system configuration to manage ad frequency and serve ads in a format most compatible with your system.