Information About Our Use of Cookies
This page is intended to inform you about what “cookies” are, how they are used on the Creditsafe website, how you can disable cookies in your web browser, and where you can find useful links to learn more about this topic. By continuing to use the Creditsafe website, you consent to our use of cookies.
We use cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”) on this website for various purposes. A cookie is a data file that a website sends to your browser, which then stores it on the device you use to visit the website.
How This Website Uses Cookies
The main cookies used on this website are as follows:
Cookie Type | Details |
Analysis | These cookies help us improve our website over time by providing us with insights into how the various parts of our website are used and how users interact with our website. The information collected is anonymous and statistical in nature. |
Authentication | These cookies are used to identify unique visitors to our website. When you log in to our website, these cookies allow us to remember who you are so that we can grant you access to pages that are personalized for you, such as your account pages. These cookies help keep your visit to the website secure. |
Affiliate Lead Tracking | We use various third parties to promote our website. We use these cookies so that, when you access our website through one of our third parties, we can identify that third party and thereby fulfill our contractual obligations to that third party. |
Session | These are cookies that ensure your visit to the website runs as smoothly as possible. They are primarily used for: · To recognize your device while you are using the website, so that you are not treated as a new visitor every time you navigate to a different part of the website; · Ensure that the servers we use to run the website each serve an equal number of users, so that everyone can browse as quickly and efficiently as possible; · Identifying your browser's capabilities. |
Third-Party Cookies
We may allow third-party organizations to place cookies through this website in order to provide services. If you would like more information about the cookies used by these third parties, as well as details on how to opt out, please refer to the table below.
Cookie Name | What the cookie is used for |
Google Analytics with Display Advertising and Remarketing and Google DoubleClick Cookies whose names begin with _ut | Behind the scenes, we use Google Analytics to gain insight into how you interact with our website and to support display advertising. This advertising involves third parties, such as Google, displaying ads on the internet. These ads may be based on your previous visits to our website. We sometimes run advertising campaigns using DoubleClick, a Google service. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the Google DoubleClick cookie) together to: · to tailor, optimize, and display ads based on a person’s previous visits to our website; · to report on how ad impressions, other forms of use of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our website. If you do not want to allow the use of Google Analytics for advertising, you can opt out via the Google Ads Settings. If you do not want to allow the use of Google Analytics cookies at all, Google offers an opt-out plug-in for most common web browsers http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. |
Adobe Analytics | We use Adobe Analytics to gain insight into how many people visit our website and how you interact with it. Cookies are used to help us better estimate the number of individual anonymous visitors to our website. Two types of cookies may be used: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies exist only during your online session. They are deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser. Adobe Analytics cookies are s_cc (session), s_sq (session), and s_vi (persistent). For more information, visit https://www.adobe.com/uk/privacy/cookies.html. |
Adobe Test&Target | We use Adobe Test&Target to optimize and personalize certain pages on the website. Test&Target does not collect personally identifiable information. Test&Target collects, at a minimum, visitor data, clicks, and conversions for all tests. All data recorded by Test&Target is linked to a visitor ID, but no personal data is associated with that visitor ID. At the aggregate level, Test&Target tracks the success metrics defined in a campaign. This data is not available at the individual visitor level. Creditsafe's implementation of Test&Target does not allow for the tracking of user activity outside of Creditsafe's own websites. Test&Target cookies can be identified by their “mbox_” prefix. |
Bing Ads | We can run ads on the Bing network. We use cookies to help determine which advertising channel brought you to our site, so that we can ensure our ads are targeted at the right customers. For more information about cookies and their use, please visit Bing's privacy policy. https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/policies/microsoft-bing-ads-privacy-policy |
IBM Silverpop | We use IBM Silverpop to help us understand how many people visit our website through our email campaigns and how you interact with them. This is done using JavaScript code to give us insight into things such as how popular certain pages are, the paths users take through our content, and to enable us to send you communications that are relevant to the content you have viewed. |
Remarketing tags. For more information, see Facebook's Cookie Policy: | |
Hotjar | On some pages of this website, we use Hotjar to see how you interact with our web pages. Hotjar uses cookies to collect non-personal information, including standard internet log data and details about visitors’ behavior patterns during their visit to the site. This is done to enable us to provide our website visitors with a better experience, identify preferences, diagnose technical issues, analyze trends, and generally help improve our website. For more information about Hotjar's privacy practices, please visit https://www.hotjar.com/privacy. |
Remarketing tags. View the terms andconditions and the cookie policy for more information. | |
Remarketing tags. You can view Twitter's cookie policy here: |
Refusing and Deleting Cookies
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you are not required to accept cookies, and you can, if you wish, refuse or block the use of cookies at any time and delete all cookies currently stored on your device. You can find out how to do this for your specific browser by clicking “Help” in your browser’s menu, or by visiting: www.allaboutcookies.org.
Please note, however, that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to access certain features of this website.
For information on how to block or delete cookies in your mobile device's browser, you may need to consult your device's user manual.