Cookie Policy

When you visit our Sites, we collect certain information by automated means, using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and web beacons.

For example, when you visit our Sites, we place cookies on your computer. Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other Internet‐connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return, they are used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

Our Sites use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies – these enable you to move from page to page within our Sites and to use any features on the Sites. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
• Performance cookies – these allow us to collect information, including the number of visitors to our Sites; where they have come to our Sites from; the pages they visit; and the length of time they have spent on our Sites.

The table below explains more fully what cookies are used on our Sites.

Types of Cookie

• Essential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and enables you to move from page to page within our website and to use its features. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
• Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are provided by Google Analytics and are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non‐essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
• Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or to help us customize our Website for you.
• Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third party social networking and other websites; specifically the Facebook button, Twitter button and Linkedin button. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too.

Blocking Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt‐out links provided.

You can also set or amend your web browsers controls to accept or disable cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to disable cookies if you prefer. If you decide to disable cookies, you may not be able to access some areas of our Sites.

Social Media Plugins

This Site uses social medial plugins (e.g. the Facebook “Share” button, Twitter “Share” button and Linkedin “Share” button) to enable you to easily share information with others. When you visit our Sites, the operator of the social plugin can place a cookie on your computer, enabling that operator to recognize individuals who have previously visited our Site. If you are logged into the social media website (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) while browsing on our Sites, the social plugins allow that social media websites to share information about your activities on our Sites with other users of their social media website.

For example, Facebook Social Plugins allows Facebook to show your Likes and comments on our pages to your Facebook friends. Facebook Social Plugins also allows you to see your friends’ Facebook activity on our Sites. Valid Insight does not control any of the content from the social media plugins. For more information about social plugins from other social media websites you should refer to those sites’ privacy and data sharing statements.

LinkedIn

We have enabled ‘Maximum’ data-sharing with LinkedIn to help improve the relevance of adverts shown to users based on customer data. Customer’s personal information (name, location, email address, phone number, and browsing behaviour on our website) is used to create lookalike audiences on LinkedIn’s network. This means that this website uses LinkedIn’s Conversions API and pixel. Using the customer’s web browser, data is shared directly with LinkedIn’s servers. This data can’t be blocked by browser-based ad blockers.

Links

The Sites may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.

If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and Valid Insight does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.

Complaints

If you have any questions or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy or practices, please contact us as provided in “Contacting Us” above.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time with a supervisory authority, in particular in the EU (or EEA) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is ICO who can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk or telephone on 0303 123 1113.

Changes to our privacy policy

We will only use your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. However, we reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to our Sites.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will place a prominent notice on our Sites.

If at any point, we decided to use personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, you will be given a choice to allow or disallow any additional uses or disclosures of your personal information, beyond that which was stated in this Privacy Policy at the time your information was collected.

This cookie policy was last updated on 03 March 2025.