Cookie Policy

BACKGROUND

This website www.potamoconuslting.com (“Our Site”) uses cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. By using cookies, We are able to provide you with a better experience and to improve Our Site by better understanding how you use it. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur if you continue using Our Site. If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site immediately.

1. Definitions and Interpretation

1.1 In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
expressions have the following meanings:

“cookie” means a small file consisting of letters and numbers
that Our Site downloads to your computer or device;

“web beacon” means a small, transparent image file (usually only 1-
pixel x 1-pixel in size) used for tracking user behaviour
and activity around Our Site;

“We/Us/Our” means Potamo Consulting, a company registered in
England and Wales under number 03800697 whose
registered office is at 34 South Molton Street, London
W1K 5RG.

2. How Does Our Site Use Cookies?

2.1 We may use cookies on Our Site for a number of reasons, all of which are
designed to improve your experience of using it. Cookies allow you to
navigate around Our Site better and enable Us to tailor and improve Our Site
by saving your preferences and understanding your use of it.
2.2 We use the following types of cookie:
2.2.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
A cookie falls into this category if it is essential to the operation of Our
Site, supporting functions such as logging in, your shopping basket,
and payment transactions.
2.2.2 Analytics Cookies
It is important for Us to understand how you use Our Site, for example,
how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features
you use. Analytics cookies enable us to gather this information,
helping Us to improve Our Site and your experience of it.
2.2.3 Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies enable Us to provide additional functions to you
on Our Site such as personalisation and remembering your saved
preferences.

2.2.4 Targeting Cookies
It is also important for Us to know when and how often you visit Our
Site, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you
have visited and which links you have clicked on). As with analytics
cookies, this information helps us to better understand you and, in turn,
to make Our Site and advertising more relevant to your interests.
2.2.5 Third Party Cookies
Third party cookies are not placed by Us and We have no control over
them. Third party cookies may be used by advertising services to
serve up tailored advertising to you on Our Site, or by third parties
providing analytics services to Us (these cookies will work in the same
way as analytics cookies described above).
2.2.6 Persistent Cookies
Any of the above types of cookie may be a persistent cookie.
Persistent cookies are those which remain on your computer or device
for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit Our
Site.
2.2.7 Session Cookies
Any of the above types of cookie may be a session cookie. Session
cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device
from the point at which you visit Our Site until you close your browser.
Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

2.3 [We also use web beacons on Our Site to track your navigation around it. As
with analytics cookies described above, web beacons help Us to understand
how you use Our Site and enable us to improve it in the future.]
2.4 Cookies on Our Site are not permanent and will expire [after <<insert
period>>] OR [as indicated in the table below].
2.5 For more specific details of the cookies that We use, please refer to the list
below.

3. What Cookies Does Our Site Use?

Duration          

Session

30 minutes                                         

3 years

Persistent                             

Persistent

4. How You Can Control Cookies

4.1 Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. You can change these settings if you wish, however please be aware that this is not generally a per-site setting and will prevent all websites from using cookies, not just Ours. Please also be aware that by disabling cookies in your browser, you may impair the functionality of Our Site list features that will notfunction correctly if cookies are disabled
4.2 The links below provide instructions on how to control cookies in allmainstream browsers:
4.2.1 Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
4.2.2 Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/278835
4.2.3 Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-
gb/products/microsoft-edge (Please note that there are no specific
instructions at this time, but Microsoft support will be able to assist)
4.2.4 Safari (OSX):
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=en_GB&locale=en_GB
4.2.5 Safari (iOS): https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265
4.2.6 Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-
disable-cookies-website-preferences
4.2.7 Android:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAn
droid&hl=en (Please refer to your device’s documentation for
manufacturers’ own browsers)

5. How Do We Use Cookies in Emails?
 

5.1 In addition to using cookies on Our Site, we use cookies and similar
technologies in some of the emails we send to you. Just like the cookies on
Our Site, these are used to help Us understand your use of Our Site and to
keep improving it.
5.2 We use web beacons in some of Our emails. We use web beacons to detect
when (or whether) you open an email and how you have interacted with it, and
other information such as your email client, web browser, computer or device,
and IP address. Web beacons may also be used to serve up emails in a
particular format that is best suited to your computer or device.
5.3 Emails from Us may contain links. Each one of those links will contain a
unique tag which enables Us to track which links are being used and by
whom. This information can then be used to improve and tailor our emails in
the future.]

6. Changes to this Cookie Policy

6.1 We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become
binding on you on your first use of Our Site after the changes have been
made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.
6.2 In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy
and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail
unless it is expressly stated otherwise.

7. Further Information

7.1 If you would like to know more about how We use cookies, please contact Us
at info@potamoconsulting.com.
7.2 For more information about cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org (this is
an external link and We are not responsible for its content).
7.3 For more information about privacy, data protection and our terms and
conditions, please visit the following:
7.3.1 Privacy Policy
7.3.2 Terms and Conditions