Cookie Notice

1. About Advantage Group company website

The Advantage Group International, Inc. (“TAGI”) operates a website (www.advantagegroup.com) wherein certain products or services are described and provided (the “Website”). This document explains how TAGI uses cookies and similar technologies on the Website, and how you can manage those cookies and technologies.

2. About Cookies and Similar Technology

A “cookie” is a small, often encrypted text file in your web browser directory. The text in a cookie usually consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can also contain other information. Web pages often use cookies to help users navigate websites efficiently and for specific functions to perform on the page or login.

Similar technologies, such as pixel tags (also known as beacons and clear GIFs), are used to measure the success of email communications.

The website can send cookies to web browsers if browser preferences allow it. Similar technologies are also often used in emails to determine whether the email has been read and if any links have been clicked.

TAGI uses cookies to track your movements through the TAGI website to understand how it is used. Personal information about you is not collected during the tracking process.

Internet browsers usually accept cookies by default. However, it is possible to set an internet browser to reject cookies. By using the Website, you consent to our use of cookies and/or similar technologies unless you set your internet browser to reject or disable cookies.

3. The Cookies TAGI Uses

The following outlines the uses for the main cookies and similar technology that TAGI uses.

Operationally necessary

TAGI uses cookies, web beacons, and similar technology to operate our sites, services, applications, and tools. This includes technology that allows you access to our site, services, applications, and tools required to identify irregular site behaviour, prevent fraudulent activity, and improve security, or that allows you to use our functions, such as submitting inquiry forms.

Performance

TAGI uses cookies, web beacons, or other similar technology to assess the performance of our website, applications, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use the Website, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our website content, applications, services, or tools.

Analytics

TAGI also uses Google Analytics, which websites use to collect information about how website visitors use a site. TAGI uses Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how users use the Website and improve the Website. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and will not allow TAGI to identify you or collect your personal information. After leaving the Website, Google Analytics does not track your internet activity.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Functionality

TAGI uses cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to enhance functionality when accessing or using our sites, services, applications, or tools. This may include identifying you when you sign into our site or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we can enhance the presentation of content on our sites.

4. Hyperlinks

The Website may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties and buttons and content from social media sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Social media cookies enable you to share the Website content with your social media networks.

TAGI has no control over those hyperlinks and/or third party websites, accordingly TAGI does not accept any responsibility or liability (under any circumstances) for the privacy practices, safety, accuracy or otherwise of such third-party websites; your use of such websites is at your own risk.

5. How to Manage Cookies

Most internet browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To learn more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers by clicking the following links:

To find information relating to other internet browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

6. Individual Cookies with Description and Expiration

The table below explains some of the main cookies that TAGI uses and why.

Name	Type of Cookie	Purpose
Cookie Control	Operationally Necessary	This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on www.advantagegroup.com. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
Universal Analytics (Google) _ga _gali _gat _gid	Analytics	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited.
Amazon AWS Amazon Web Services Canada, Inc.	Operationally Necessary	These cookies track and make use of the IP, location of your device, browser type and version. Downloads and playback details are also captured. They are used to display any additional information based on location, time zone or browser version.
Adobe Fonts (Type Kit )	Operationally Necessary	Serves fonts to display web page text.

The current version of this policy and its previous versions shall be recorded below.

Version	Description
V1.0	Date Live:	09062023
	Version Notes:
	Approved by:	Kevin Jagdeo, Director of IT Infrastructure
V2.0	Date Live	02102024
	Version Notes:	V2
	Reviewed by:	Farringford Legal
	Approved by:	Kevin Jagdeo, Director of IT Infrastructure