RWS Cookie Notice

This Cookie Notice explains how RWS Holdings Plc and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006 (collectively and individually referred to as ‘RWS’) use cookies on our websites (referred to collectively and individually as our ‘Sites’) when you visit and use our Sites and the products and services provided on our Sites.

A list of the RWS group of companies can be found in our Privacy Notice.

You can manage our use of cookies in our Cookie Banner, which will appear upon your first visit on the Site, and at regular intervals thereafter. In addition, you can manage your cookies using our Cookie Settings.

Where you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our Sites may not function fully or properly as a result.

1. What is a Cookie?

A cookie and other tracking technologies (e.g. HTTP cookies, Flash cookies, Software Development Kits, Pixels, Plugins, ‘Like’ buttons and social sharing tools, Device Fingerprinting, altogether referred to as ‘cookies’) are typically small text files that can be downloaded on to a device when you visit a website. The device then sends back the cookie to the website on each subsequent visit. 

Cookies can do a lot of different things, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your language preferences, counting the total number of visits to a website and the pages consulted.

They can be classified depending on how long they endure and their provenance: 

Duration 

  • Session cookies: These cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser (or once your session ends). 
  • Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on your hard drive until you erase them or your browser does, depending on the cookie’s expiration date. 

Provenance 

  • First-party cookies: these cookies are set on your device directly by the website you are visiting. 
  • Third-party cookies: These cookies are placed on your device, not by the website you are visiting, but by a third party like an advertiser or an analytics system. 

For more information about cookies, please visit: 

2. What cookies do we use?

We use several types of cookies for the following purposes: 

3. What information do we collect?

On each visit to our Sites, we may collect the following information: 

Personal information 

The Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet. 

Technical information 

Browser/plug-ins type and version, time zone setting, operating system, platform browser and device type. 

Information about your visit

The full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from the Site (including date and time), pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, click and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

4. When do our cookies expire?

Our session cookies automatically expire when you close your browser. The general expiry date for all our other cookies is up to 13 months.

5. How to manage your Cookies Preferences?

Our Cookie Preference Centre 

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on Cookie Settings, adjusting the sliders to On or Off and clicking on Confirm My Choices

You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. 

Use of your Browser settings 

You can control the cookies by allowing the default settings on your browser to continue accepting cookies or by deleting them individually or collectively. 

You can also set your browser not to accept any cookies. 

We recommend using the “Help” function in the browser on your device to manage your browser acceptance and use of cookies. 

For information on how to manage cookies on some popular browsers: 

If you choose to disable all cookies, our Sites may not function fully or properly as a result.

6. How to contact us?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at privacy@rws.com

7. Changes to the Notice

We will regularly update this Notice. Please periodically review this page to ensure that you are familiar with its most current version.