Cookie Policy

Type of cookie

Example

What it does

Your options

Performance

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These cookies allow us to manage the technical performance of the website such as load balancing to ensure that the site is available to all users

You may set your browser to reject these cookies but this is likely to affect your use of the site

Functionality

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These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience. For example, they allow the website to remember selections such as language, currency, region or changes to text size and to remember you on return visits. They may also be used, for example, to remember the point you have reached in a survey so that you can return to it later.

By choosing an option such as remember me, text size or participating in a survey or similar services that necessitate the use of a cookie, you will be indicating your consent to that cookie.

You may set your browser to reject these cookies but this is likely to affect your use of the site.

Activity logging - websites

ASP.NET_sessionId

This cookie is essential to authorize your access to content and services that are not publicly available including paid-for content.
     
If you are a registered user, trialist or subscriber, when you log on, this places a cookie on your machine.
     
Once you are logged on, we use this cookie to monitor your activity on our websites, for example, which articles you read. This is for the following    purposes:
      We need to ensure compliance with your user license and adherence to our terms and conditions as part of your trial or subscription. (Our terms and conditions are published on our websites and can be accessed by a link in the footer of each page)
      For customer service purposes to provide users with a tailored service and to develop products and services reflecting our users’ needs

If you would prefer us not to use your activity log for customer service purposes, you can request that we anonymize it for these uses. This will affect our ability to understand your requirements and personalize your browsing experience in the future.

To request anonymization please email us at Privacy@GulfEnergyInfo.com
     
Please include the following details:
      Your user name that you use to access our website(s) – this will be an email address
      Your name
      Your company name
      The Gulf Publishing Holdings LLC website(s) you use

Third party

What it does

Where to go for further information on these cookies including turning them off

AdSense

Google AdSense is a program run by Google that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve automatic text, image, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to site content and audience.

http://www.google.com/settings/ads

ClickTale

ClickTale is a web analytics service. Records of individual browsing sessions are translated into information that helps website designers make websites easier to use and simpler to navigate.

http://www.clicktale.net/disable.html

ComScore

ComScore is a web market research, analytics and measurement provider.

ScorecardResearch conducts research by collecting Internet web browsing data and then uses that data to help show how people use the Internet, what they like about it, and what they don’t. Surveys and web tags used do not collect personal information.

http://www.scorecardresearch.com/privacy.aspx

DoubleClick / DFP (Double-Click for Publishers) / DART

DoubleClick is a service provided by Google. Its cookies are used to serve advertising relevant to users’ interests and measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns for our sites.

http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/

Google Adwords

Displays advertisements prompted by search terms entered into the Google search box. We use Google Adwords to display advertisements about our products and services.

https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps us to understand how our users engage with our websites and so allows us to better tailor our websites to our users’ needs.
     
The tool uses a cookie in order to evaluate use of content and compile reports for us on activity on our websites and Apps.

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Analytics – Advertiser Features

Some of our sites may use these Features including Demographics and Interest Reports.
     Where these Features are enabled, Google Analytics will collect data about our website traffic via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers*, in addition to data collected through the standard Google Analytics implementation.
     The Demographics and Interest Reports will not contain personally identifiable data but they may pull in browsing data from these additional sources.
     (*An anonymous identifier is a random string of characters that is used for the same purposes as a cookie on platforms, including certain mobile devices, where cookie technology is not available.)

To opt out of Google Analytics please follow this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

To check your Google ads settings and opt out of Google Ads, please follow this link:
     http://www.google.com/settings/ads

To prevent anonymous identifiers* being used for Google Analytics/Ads purposes on your mobile device:

Android

1.      Open the Google Settings app on your device
2.      Select Ads

iOS
Devices with iOS 6 and above use Apple’s Advertising Identifier. To  learn more about limiting ad tracking using this identifier, visit the Settings menu on your device.

Lotame

Lotame is a third party service for serving third party online advertising across online and mobile platforms. It uses a cookie to record online behavior in order to show relevant advertising.

http://www.lotame.com/opt-out-preference-manager

Nielsen Standard

Nielsen Standard provides online audience measurement and analysis services

http://www.nielsen-online.com/corp.jsp?section=leg_prs&nav=1

Optimizely

Optimizely provides a range of website analytics services that enable us to better understand how our websites are used.

https://www.optimizely.com/opt_out

Quantcast

Quantcast is an audience measurement and real-time advertising tool

https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/

Qubit

Qubit provides website optimisation and analytics services.

Qubit does not track users across domains and therefore do not provide a universal opt out. Please use your browser settings to block or delete the Qubit cookie

Webtrends

Webtrends is a web analytics tool that performs similar functions to Google Analytics in helping us to understand how our users engage with our websites. If you have not logged in and are browsing anonymously, if you subsequently register or are already registered on our web site(s), your online actions on our websites may retrospectively be linked to your user details, and therefore ascribed to you. This is done using information stored in the Webtrends cookies and captured in pixel files unless you have deleted the Webtrends cookie or registered an opt out with Webtrends. This information provides us with a full picture of how our customers interact with our sites to better understand their interests in order to tailor our services and products.

You may opt out of the Webtrends cookie by clicking the link in the next column.

http://kb.webtrends.com/articles/Information/Opting-out-of-Tracking-Cookies-1365447872915