1. INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES  

The GovConnex website (www.govconnex.com) (GovConnex Website) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the GovConnex Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the GovConnex Website and also allows us to improve the GovConnex Website. By continuing to browse the GovConnex Website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on your user experience and may prevent you from using parts of the GovConnex Website.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the GovConnex Website.

Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the GovConnex Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the GovConnex Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the GovConnex Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies.  These cookies record your visit to the GovConnex Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.  We will use this information to make the GovConnex Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.  We may also share this information with third parties for related purposes.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the below table:
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MANAGING COOKIES

The most popular web browsers all allow you to manage cookies. You can choose to accept or reject all cookies, or just specific types of cookies.

How to manage cookies in different web browsers

Most browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. Please note that turning off cookies will restrict your use of the GovConnex Website.
The following links provide information on how to modify the cookies settings on some popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari
  

Please note that we do not currently respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.

We strongly recommend that you leave Cookies active, because they enable you to take advantage the most attractive features of the GovConnex Website, but this remains your personal choice.

You can also visit the About Cookies, for more information about cookies and how to manage them.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Note that when third parties are collecting information about you, these third parties are acting as controllers in their own right (ie. they are not acting on our behalf).