Cookie Policy

At lifescience.imiplc.com ("Website"), we use cookies to make your overall experience on our Website; cloud services; applications and types of software we use better. Specifically, we use cookies to:

- Store information for the time you are on the Website or when you are using cloud services (see "Session Cookies" and "For Cloud Services / Necessary Cookies" below);

- Store information to recognise your browser or device each time you visit (see "Persistent Cookies" below);

- Analyse your behaviour on our Website, so we can continue to improve; and

- Allow others to advertise on our Website or track information about you to improve advertising to you.

This Cookies Policy will explain what cookies are, how we use them, and what your rights are in relation to our use of cookies. Also, we will discuss our third-party cookies and what they mean for you.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are placed on your device to store information. Specifically, cookies are small strings of text used to store information that may concern you, your behaviour on the web, your preferences, or your device. Cookies are mainly used to adapt the operation of the Website to your expectations, offering a more personalised browsing experience and memorising the choices you have made previously.

Cookies do not record or store any personal data from your device.

You can manage or request the general deactivation or cancelation of cookies through your browser. However, please be advised that deactivation or cancelation of cookies might slow down or prevent access to some parts of the Website.

How we use cookies and their type

We use cookies to collect aggregated information on the number of users and how they visit the Website. These are also considered technical cookies when they operate as described. These cookies are retransmitted by an analytics or statistics provider.

Analytics may collect information through log data, such as:

- internet protocol (IP) address;

- type of browser and device;

- operating system;

- name of the Internet Service Provider (ISP);

- country information;

- date and time of visit;

- web page of origin (referral) and exit; and

- possibly the number of clicks.

We don't use this information to identify you, but rather to understand usage trends on our Website.

Our full list of cookies

The full list of cookies we use on our Website, cloud services, applications and types of software, including their type, how long they will available once installed and their description is below:

FOR WEBSITES:

Necessary

Necessary cookies are crucial for the basic functions of the website, software and apps and they will not work in its intended way without them. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data. They are:

Functional

Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website, types of software and apps on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features. They are:

Analytics

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website, types of software and apps. These cookies help provide information on metrics on the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. They are:

Performance

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website, types of software and apps which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. They are:

Advertisement

Advertisement cookies are used to deliver visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages they visited before and analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaign. They are:

Unclassified

Other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analysed and have not been classified into a category as yet. They are:

FOR CLOUD SERVICES:

The "Cloud Services" include an access to condition, configuration (read and write access) and measurement data; and remote support for configuration of IMI plc devices.

Necessary

Necessary cookies are crucial for the basic functions of the Cloud Services, and they will not work in its intended way without them. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data. They are:

Consent

You may refuse the presence of cookies on your computer through the Axeptio module provided for this purpose.

What can you do about cookies?

If you want, you can prevent the use of cookies, but then you may not be able to use our Website as we intended. To proceed without changing the options related to cookies, simply continue to use our Website.

Adjusting the cookies or opting-out

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete all cookies that are already on your computer.

For our Website, this is how you can adjust your settings and, if desired, opt-out of cookies completely:

Go to your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you what to do. However, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and the services.  Additionally, some features or functionalities may not work.  Please note that deleting cookies from your browser may remove the preferences you have set for the Website, as well as preferences set for other websites.

For further information and support, you can also visit the specific help page of the web browser you are using:

- Microsoft Edge: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies

- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-us/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

- Safari: http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

- Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en

- Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/

Cookies policy does not cover third party websites

Please note that this Cookies policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of third party websites which may be linked to or accessible through this Website.

Changes to the Cookies policy

We may update this Cookies policy and we would encourage you to review the policy from time to time to stay informed of how we are using cookies. This Cookies policy was last updated in June 2024.

How to contact us

For any questions on our cookies policy, you can reach us at the following email: [email protected].