Website Privacy Policy
Envireau Water is committed to protecting your privacy. This document outlines our policy with regard to the collection of information via our websites, both in the form of user-defined data entry forms and in the use of cookies.
Collection and use of information
When completing an online form, whether it be a conference booking, a ‘contact us’ form, signing up to our NewsBite email service, or Envireau Knowledge, we may collect and store information about you. The data will be specific to our relationship with you, but might include name, address, telephone number, email address.
The data that we collect and store is kept for the use of Envireau Ltd only. We will not distribute data to third parties unless legally obliged to do so. The data will be kept secure and access given only to those people with a legitimate need and will be dependent on our relationship with you.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit or certain emails you open. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide business and marketing information to the owners of the site. For more detailed information about cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to control and delete cookies
We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings.
The website www.allaboutcookies.org. contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies.
Please note, turning cookies off at the browser level could disable cookies on ALL sites you visit, and therefore disable functionality on other sites that use cookies.
Types of cookies used
Session cookies – these are temporary cookies that expire (and are automatically erased) whenever you close your browser. The content management system used by our websites currently only uses one session cookie, keeping track of whether your browser has javascript enabled.
Persistent cookies – these usually have an expiration date far into the future and thus stay in your browser until they expire, or until you manually delete them. The content management system used by our websites contains a number of separate modules, some of which use a small number of persistent cookies to hold system setting information relating to the operation of those specific modules.
Google Analytics
In addition, our website uses Google Analytics to help us to collect information about how visitors use our sites. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the sites. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to a site, where visitors have navigated to a site from and the pages they visit whilst on a site.
For an overview of privacy at Google click here.
You can configure your browser to opt out of providing data to Google Analytics by using the browser add-on provided by Google here.
Notes on Browsing Envireau Water’s Website with Cookies Disabled
You can browse our websites with cookies disabled, though some interactions and functionality may not work correctly.
If you close the banner relating to the use of cookies and it reappears the next time you visit us, it is most likely that you have cookies disabled in your browser. Ironically, we use a persistent cookie to remember that you closed the banner, but this only works when cookies on our site are enabled.
External links
Our websites may, from time to time, contain links to external sites. Envireau Water is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites and we recommend that you read the privacy policies on any external sites you use.
