Cookie Policy

Welcome to the Sub2 Cookies Policy, which sets out details of the cookies that Sub2 Technologies Limited (“Sub2” or “we”) or third parties use on the www.sub2tech.com website (the “Site”)

This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we partner with may use cookies on the Site, and your choices regarding cookies.  Please read this Cookies Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which sets out additional details on how we use personally identifiable information and your various rights.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Site or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Site more useful to you. Cookies allow Sub2 to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience on our Site.

How Sub2 uses cookies

The cookies that are used on our site fall into the following categories:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that authenticate user and allow us to offer Site features.
  • Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our Site and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our Site, how they reached our Site, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our Site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on our Site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our Site.
  • Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information will be used by us and third parties to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

The table below sets out the cookies that we use on our Site, and their purpose:

Cookie Purpose More information
Sub2 v1v4 This is the main cookie that allows all Sub2 services to operate. It allows Sub2 applications to function and registers the URL’s of the web pages that you are visiting on the Site. Where you have given personal information such as your email address (for example by completing the ‘Get in touch’ boxes on the Site), this personal information will be collected by these cookies. However, this personal information will only be used to contact you as requested.

These cookies do not track your browsing on other websites. Unlike some types of cookie (such as many targeted advertising cookies), these cookies are not used to see what other websites you visit. They only track your use of the Site.

Sub2 s2sv4 This is a session cookie that stores information such as the presence of an email address against this cookie, the number of pages into this session and a customer or non-customer flag.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also allow third parties (for example, web traffic analysis services) to use cookies on the Site, over which we have no control. The third party cookies used on our site are as follows:

Provider Cookie Description
Google _ga, _gat_gid These are analytics cookies that allow the Site to identify unique users, identify unique sessions and store information about user sessions.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use some or all of the features we offer. You may not be able to log in, store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

 

Date last updated: 29 May 2018