To make our websites and services work properly, we sometimes place small data files called ‘cookies’ on
your device.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when
you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login,
language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep
re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. They're completely
safe and can't be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device.You can learn more about cookies
by clicking here (external link).
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are directly stored by us (GuardsPro) when you visit our websites.
These cookies allow us to collect analytics data, remember language settings, and perform other useful
functions to provide a good user experience.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to the first-party cookies set by GuardsPro, third parties may also set cookies when you
visit our sites. We have hired third parties to provide us with services such as analytics and
advertisements. Our third-party service providers may also use cookies or web beacons to collect
information about your visits to our Websites and/or other sites to measure and track the effectiveness of
advertisements and our online marketing activities (for example, by collecting data on how many times you
click on one of our ads). The information collected by these third parties does not include personal
information that enables you to be specifically identified (e.g. by reference to your name or email
address).
We also use cookies from Google reCAPTCHA to prevent abuse of the website and enhance its
security (read Google’s privacy policy).
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use automatically-collected information and other information collected on the Service through cookies
and similar technologies to:
- Store your Preferences and Settings such as browsing language, the device used, search results
preferences and notification preferences;
- Process your Sign-in request and authentication. When you sign in to our website or one of our
services using your credentials, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an
encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within site without
signing in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information on the browser side in your
device, so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site;
- Monitor your latest visit to the website (total number of visitors and pages viewed for statistical
purposes), and the most recent pages visited (to help our helpdesk if you send a request);
- Secure our websites and services to detect fraud and abuse;
- Provide customized advertisements, content, and information;
- Track if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site.
The following types of cookies may be used when you visit the Site:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function
and cannot be switched off in our systems. Some of the cookies on our website are essential in order to
enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site.
Without these cookies, we cannot provide the services you have asked for. You can set your browser to
block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.
- Performance Cookies: Some of the cookies on our website collect information about how
visitors use the website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often and get error messages
from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these
cookies collect is aggregated and therefore, anonymous. Our website uses Google Analytics cookies as
well. Information collected by these cookies will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in
the USA in accordance with its privacy practices. For further information about Google’s privacy
practices and how this applies to Google Analytics, please visit: - Google Analytics privacy overview -
Opt-out of Google Analytics tracking
- Functional cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced
functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we
have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not
function properly. These cookies enable the website to remember choices you make, such as your
user_name, language or the region you are in, and provide enhanced more personal features. These cookies
may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a
blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised, and they cannot track your browsing
activity on other websites.
- Targeting cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising
partners. Those companies may use them to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant
adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely
identifying your browser and internet device.
Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed below. If you visit one of our
websites, the site may set some or all of the following cookies:
This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a
digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website.
Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store
information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting.
This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags.
The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data
and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores
information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website,
while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that
are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit
anonymously.
This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that
stored language the next time user visit the website.
LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID.
LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection.
This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that
stored language the next time user visit the website.
ARRAffinity cookie is set by Azure app service, and allows the service to choose the right
instance established by a user to deliver subsequent requests made by that user.
No description available.
Linkedin - Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant
advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus
limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see whatarecookies.com. You can delete
all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being
placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a
site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Browser manufacturers provide help pages relating to cookie management in their products. Please see below
for more information.
Disclaimer
We may update this Cookie Statement from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the
cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this
Cookie Statement regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. For more
information relating to cookies, you may contact us
