Cookie Policy
Cookie Declaration
IWC and analytics or service providers use cookies and other technologies to ensure everyone who uses our websites has the best possible experience. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.
Cookie Policy
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy (“Policy”) explains that we believe in being open and clear about how we use your information. In the spirit of transparency, this Policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies on our Websites.
2. Defining a Cookie
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Some of the cookies will only be used if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and some cookies will always be used. You can find out more about each cookie by viewing our current cookie list here. We update this list annually, so there may be additional cookies that are not yet listed. Web beacons, tags and scripts may be used in the Websites or in emails to help us to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our service/analytics providers on an individual and aggregated basis.
3. Reason for Cookies
When you visit the Websites, we may place several cookies in your browser. For example, we use cookies on the Websites to understand visitor and user preferences, improve their experience, and track and analyse usage, navigational and other statistical information. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you disable cookies, you may still visit the Websites, but your ability to use some features or areas of the Websites may be limited.
4. Disabling Cookies
You can generally accept or decline the use of cookies through a functionality built into your web browser. To learn more about how to control cookie settings through your browser:
- Click here to learn more about the “Private Browsing” setting and managing cookie settings in Firefox;
- Click here to learn more about “Incognito” and managing cookie settings in Chrome;
- Click here to learn more about “InPrivate” and managing cookie settings in Internet Explorer; or
- Click here to learn more about “Private Browsing” and managing cookie settings in Safari.
If you want to learn more about cookies, or how to control, disable or delete them, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance. In addition, certain third-party advertising networks, including Google, permit users to opt out of or customise preferences associated with your internet browsing. To learn more about this feature from Google, click here.
Many jurisdictions require or recommend that website operators inform users/visitors as to the nature of cookies they utilise and, in certain circumstances, obtain the consent of their users to the placement of certain cookies.
The Websites include third party social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, and third-party widgets, such as the ‘Share This’ button or interactive mini-programs that run on the Websites. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Websites, and set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interaction with these features is governed by the privacy policy of the third-party company providing it.
We may use any of the following categories of cookies on the Websites as detailed below.
Each cookie falls within one of the four following categories:
| Category | Description |
| Essential / Necessary Cookies | Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. |
| Analytics / Statistics Cookies | Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. |
| Functionality or Preference Cookies | Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in. |
| Marketing Cookies | Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. |
| Unclassified | Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies. |