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PRIVACY POLICY
The protection of your personal data is important to us. We are committed to the lawful, fair, transparent, accountable, accurate, confidential, and limited collection and processing of your personal data. What are your options for controlling personal data:
- Disable cookies on your browser. Please note that if you do so, this may affect the functionality of the website and the information you can access through it.
- Unsubscribe from any George Jon email programs for which you have opted in.
You should review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time, and such changes will be effective upon our posting them to the Website. Where consistent with applicable law, your continued use of the Website and/or the Services after we have changed the Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised terms. This version was last updated on February 10, 2021.
Links to Other Websites & Services
The Website may contain links to other websites and online services. When you link to such other sites and services (including by means of clicking on hyperlinks and logos), you become subject to their terms of use and privacy policies posted thereon and/or applicable thereto. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you click on a link and leave the Website, and to read the privacy policies of every website that collects Personal Data from you.
COOKIE POLICY
When you visit our website, the site places small, removable data files on your computer. These files are known as a “cookie.” Cookies help us provide you with a good experience when browsing the website and also allow us to improve our site. Some of the cookies we use are “analytics” cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, ensuring that users can easily find what they are searching for. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites.
Similarly, we use pixel tags — small graphic images (usually invisible) — that can be embedded on webpages to track usage of our website to help us analyze the effectiveness of our content and communications. These pixel tags can then be used to recognize our cookies and to monitor certain user interactions with a website. We may use pixel tags to collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with our website. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, username, system type, whether you have enabling software to access certain website features, access times and referring website addresses.
We use Google Analytics to better understand how our customers navigate to and through our website and services, how long customers spend visiting our content items, and how often they return to visit our website. To opt out of Google’s use of cookies, visit Google’s Ads Settings or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Cookies operate in the background, and you can turn them off, if you wish, by adjusting your Web browser settings, but doing so may impair your ability to use some of the features on the Website. Cookies we employ may include the following:
Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that the website requires in order to perform its basic functions.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Issuer | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| CONSENT | Google Consent bridges the gap between data privacy and data-driven digital advertisement by making sure that your website’s analytics and marketing can run seamlessly based on each specific user’s consent choice. | |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | Allows servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain. | |
| wp-settings, wp-settings-time, wordpress_logged_in, wordpress_sec | WordPress | Used to verify and congifure wp-admin configurations for authorized back-end users. |
Analytics Cookies
These cookies allow us to recognize and count our visitors and to see how visitors move around the website. This helps us to improve the way the website works, for example, by ensuring that users can easily find desired content. These cookies help us measure and improve site performance while ensuring security.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Issuer | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _ga, _gid | Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and keep a record of visitor statistics and site usage |
| OTZ | Google Analytics | used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors |
Performance Cookies
We use Performance Cookies across the website for internal purposes to help us to provide you with a better user experience.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Issuer | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress | Used to check if your browser supports cookies. |
| intercom-id-r70azrgx | Google Translate | Cookie used by Language translation plugin on this site. |
| __hssrc | HubSpot | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. |
| hubspotutk | HubSpot | This cookie is used to keep track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. |
| __hstc | HubSpot | The main cookie for tracking visitors for the HotJar Hubspot integration. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). |
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
Targeting and advertising cookies are specifically designed to gather information from you on your device to display advertisements based on relevant topics that interest you. The information the cookies gather on you can be shared with other advertisers to measure the performance of their advertisements. Additionally, another purpose of targeting and advertising cookies is to build user profiles from visitors to the website to gather statistics on the performance of the advertisements that can carry across many websites.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Issuer | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| APISID, SAPISID, __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PSIDCC | Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. | |
| SID | Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time which allows Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to show relevant & personalized ad content | |
| SSID | Used to store information about how you use the website and any advertising that you may have seen before visiting this website, in addition to being used to help customize advertising on Google properties by remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results and your visits to an advertisers website. | |
| SIDCC | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the website. | |
| HSID | Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time which allows Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to show relevant & personalized ad content. | |
| NID | Used to store preferences in a unique Google ID to remember your information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. These preferences can be used for optimized &/or personalized advertising on Google networks | |
| 1P_JAR | Used to store information about how you use the website and any advertising that you may have seen before visiting this website, in addition to being used to help customize advertising on Google properties by remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results and your visits to an advertisers website. | |
| ANID | Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. |
Further Information
If you are still unsure about cookies, or you just want help to manage them, then please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
