COOKIES NOTICE 

Lockton Inc. and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates Cookies Notice  

Last Updated: 27th October 2021 

This website, https://global.lockton.com/ (opens a new window), (“Website”) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website.  This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website.   

1. What are Cookies? 

1.1 Cookies are small files of data, normally consisting of just letters and numbers. They are placed on your computer or other device by the websites you visit. Different kinds of cookies do different things—ranging from making a website work to making it easier to use to enabling website owners to understand more about their visitors. Some cookies are stored in your browser and some on the hard drive of your computer. Session Cookies are automatically erased when you close your browser; Persistent Cookies, unless deleted, remain on your computer or other device until a set expiration date. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.  

2. Our Use of Cookies 

2.1 We use the following categories of cookies: 

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies that are essential for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website. 

• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These are cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. 

• Functionality Cookies: These are cookies that are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences, for example your choice of language or region. 

• Targeting Cookies: These are cookies that record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. 

2.2 You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, the purposes for which we use them, information about whether they are a first party cookie or third party cookie, a session cookie or a persistent cookie, together with their duration in our Cookies Preference Center accessible by clicking on the Cookies Settings link at the bottom of the page of our Website.

3. Third-Party Cookies 

3.1 Third party cookies are cookies that are set by a website other than the one you are currently on (“Third Party Cookies”). We use vendors that may set up Third Party Cookies on your devices when you use our Website to allow them to deliver the services they are providing to us, such as analytics services on our Website. Such vendors may use these cookies for their own purposes by relating information about your visit to our Website with any personally identifying information that they may already have.  

3.2 You can find out more information about the Third Party Cookies on our Website, including names and estimated retention periods, in our Cookies Preference Center accessible by clicking on the Cookies Settings link at the bottom of the page of our Website. Where available, the best source for information on the use of these Third Party Cookies is from the Third Party’s website privacy policy and/or cookie policy. 

4. How do I change my cookie settings? 

4.1 You can change your cookie preferences at any time in our Cookies Preference Center. Our Cookies Preference Center can also be accessed by clicking on the ’Cookies Settings’ button in our Cookies Banner, or at any time by clicking on the Cookies Settings link at the bottom of each page of our Website. Once inside our Cookies Preference Center, you will be able to turn cookies ‘on’ or ‘off’ and save your preferences, as well as obtain more detailed information about the cookies we use. 

4.2 Alternatively, most web browsers give you the option to accept or decline cookies, to delete existing cookies and to alert you when websites set or access cookies. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do this. However, please note that if you use your browser settings to block some or all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.     

4.3 For additional information on how to manage and delete cookies, you may wish to visit the following websites: 

• www.aboutcookies.org (opens a new window); 

• www.allaboutcookies.org (opens a new window); 

• your relevant browser developer’s website. 

We are neither associated with nor responsible for the content of the websites listed above.