Cookie Policy
We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our sites. A cookie is a small piece of data that our websites stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our sites. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you have specified. Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.
We use cookies to help improve your experience of our websites. This cookie policy forms part of our privacy policy, and covers the use of cookies between your device and our website. We also information on third-party services we may use, who may also use cookies as part of their service, though they are not covered by our policy.
If you don’t wish to accept cookies from us, you should instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our website, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired content and services.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your device when you visit, typically containing information about the website itself, a unique identifier that allows the site to recognize your web browser when you return, additional data that serves the purpose of the cookie, and the lifespan of the cookie itself.
Cookies are used to enable certain features like automated logging in, to track site usage with analytics, to store your user settings such as your time zone and notification preferences, and to personalize your content such advertising, particular interests and language.
Cookies set by our website are normally referred to as “first-party cookies”, and typically only track your activity on our sites. Cookies set by other companies are called “third-party cookies”, and can be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.
Types of cookies and how we use them
Essential cookies
Essential cookies are crucial to your experience of our website, enabling core features like user logins and account management. We use essential cookies to enable certain functions on our website.
Third-party cookies on our websites
We may use third-party analytics services such as Google Analytics to help us better understand your use of our website. These third-party cookies collect information sent by your browser including cookies and your IP address. This information and their use of it is governed by their respective privacy policies.
How you can control or opt out of cookies
If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you can instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether, or to notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie. If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device.
Although some cookies can be blocked with little impact on your experience of our website, blocking all cookies may mean you are unable to access certain features and content that we offer.
Third-party access to information
We use third-party services for:
- Analytics tracking
- User authentication
- Marketing and promotion of our services
- Content marketing
- Email marketing
- These services may access our data solely for the purpose of performing specific tasks on our behalf. We do not share any personally identifying information with them without your explicit consent. We do not give them permission to disclose or use any of our data for any other purpose.
We may, from time to time, allow limited access to our data by external consultants and agencies for the purpose of analysis and service improvement. This access is only permitted for as long as necessary to perform a specific function. We only work with external agencies whose privacy policies align with ours.
We will refuse government and law enforcement requests for data if we believe a request is too broad or unrelated to its stated purpose. However, we may cooperate if we believe the requested information is necessary and appropriate to comply with legal process, to protect our own rights and property, to protect the safety of the public and any person, to prevent a crime, or to prevent what we reasonably believe to be illegal, legally actionable, or unethical activity.
We do not otherwise share or supply personal information to third parties. We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute your personal information to marketers or third parties.
Use of LinkedIn User Data
If you choose to connect a LinkedIn profile to your DnA Advisory Services account, we will access certain information obtained from LinkedIn regarding your account. In particular we may store your name and email address as well as information on the particular profile you connect, including your contacts. This data will only be used by us to provide you with the service you expect and will not be shared with any third parties.
Our third-party privacy promise
We review the privacy policies of all our third-party providers before enlisting their services to ensure their practices align with ours. We will never knowingly include third-party services that compromise or violate the privacy of our users.
Children’s Privacy
DnA Advisory Services does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register with the Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information on this Site. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will take steps to remove that information.
Limits of our policy
This privacy policy only covers DnA Advisory Services own collecting and handling of data. We only work with partners, affiliates and third-party providers whose privacy policies align with ours, however we cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
Our websites may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
Changes to this policy
At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect current acceptable practices. We will take reasonable steps to let you know about changes via our website. Your continued use of our site after any changes to this policy will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy, personal information and cookies.