COOKIES

What are cookies?

  • What are cookies?

  • It is a common practice for most professional websites to use cookies, which are tiny files downloaded to your computer in order to improve your overall experience while viewing and using those websites. This page sets out our Cookie Policy on what information the cookies used by us will gather, how we use the information collected and the reasons why these cookies sometimes need to be stored in your computers. You are also informed as to how to prevent these cookies from being stored to your computers, which, however, may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of our Website’s functionality.

  • How will we use cookies?

  • We use cookies for a variety of business reasons as detailed below without limitation:

    The Cookies We Set
    • Forms related cookies

      When you submit your information or data to us through a form such as those found on contact or comment pages, cookies may be set to remember your personally identifiable details for future correspondence.

    • Email newsletters related cookies

      Our Website offers newsletter and email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember whether you have already been registered or not, and thus to decide whether to show you certain notifications, which might only be applicable to subscribed or unsubscribed users.

  • Third Party Cookies

  • In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter while viewing or using our Website.

    • Our Website uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can display more relevant content.

      For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

    • We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on our Website that allow you to connect with our public social networks including Wechat, Weibo, Linkedin and Twitter in various ways. If you wish to visit those social media sites, cookies will be set through our Website which to enhance your profile on those sites or contribute to the data that are held for various purposes outlined in the respective privacy policies of those sites.

  • Disabling Cookies

  • You can adjust the settings on your internet browser to reject cookies. In most cases, there is unfortunately no industry standard option for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to our Website. It is therefore recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide services that you are using.

  • More Information

  • Hopefully this Cookie Policy has clarified everything for you. As was previously mentioned, if you are not sure whether you need to use certain cookies or not, it is usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features that you are using on our Website.

    However, if you need more information on our Cookie Policy, you can contact us through email at: info@ghiplegal.com.

Effective date: May 1st, 2018