1. About Advantage Group company website
Advantage Group operates one website, www.advantagegroup.com.
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.
Advantage Group uses cookies to track your movements through the Advantage Group 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 Advantage Group website, you consent to our use of cookies unless you set your internet browser to reject cookies.
3. The Cookies Advantage Group Uses
We’ve outlined the uses for the main cookies and similar technology that Advantage Group uses.
Operationally Necessary
Advantage Groupuses 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
Advantage Groupuses 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 our website, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our website content, applications, services, or tools.
Analytics
Advantage Group also uses Google Analytics, which websites use to collect information about how website visitors use a site. We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how users use Advantage Group’s website and improve the website. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and will not allow Advantage Group to identify you or collect your personal information. After leaving Advantage Group’s website, Google Analytics does not track your internet activity.
Functionality
Advantage Group 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
Advantage Group’s 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 Advantage Group’s website content with your social media networks.
We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third-party websites; your use of such websites is at your own risk.
5. How to Manage Cookies
You can change the cookie settings of our website here.
Most web 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 browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
6. Individual Cookies with Description and Expiration
The table below explains the cookies that Advantage Group uses and why.
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Name |
Type of Cookie |
Purpose |
Expires |
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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. |
90 days from set/update |
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Universal Analytics (Google) _ga |
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. |
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AnalyticsSyncHistory |
Functionality |
This cookie stores information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. |
30 days |
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YouTube |
Analytics |
This cookie tracks the views of embedded videos on YouTube pages. |
At end of the session |
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YouTube |
Functionality |
This cookie is used to provide bandwidth estimates. |
6 months |
The current version of this Policy, together with its previous versions, shall be recorded below.
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v1.0 |
Description |
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Date Live: |
09062023 |
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Version Notes: |
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Approved by: |
Kevin Jagdeo, Director of IT Infrastructure |