What are cookies?
Gilbarco Veeder-Root uses cookies to help improve your online experience.
Cookies are small text files which are automatically downloaded and stored on your device when you visit our website. They enable our website to recognise your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
We use cookies for two reasons:
- To help us track usage patterns in order to improve and manage our sites.
- To record preferences in order to personalise your visit.
The types of cookies we use
We may automatically use cookies to enable you to interact with our website. It's important to note that different cookies do different jobs. Below is a summary of cookies used by our website.
First-party cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Because these cookies are strictly necessary we do not need to ask for your consent to use them.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, these cookies can be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise.
By using our website you agree we may place these types of cookies on your device.
Third-party cookies
Performance cookies (Google Analytics)
These cookies collect information about traffic to our website and how visitors use our website. This may include the number of visitors to our website, the websites that referred them to our website, the pages that they visited, what time of day they visited, whether they have visited our website before, and other similar information.
These analytics cookies may also tell us how many of our visitors are male or female, and may summarise the number of visitors who fall within certain age ranges, or certain interest categories.
The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. The information is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We use this information to help operate our services more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our website.
We use a third-party web analytics software for this purpose: Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here.
By using our website, you agree we may place these types of cookies on your device.
Facebook Pixel
Facebook pixels are analytics tools which we place on our websites to allow us to measure the effectiveness of our Facebook advertising. Facebook pixels allow us to trace the actions that people who have clicked on our Facebook Ads go on to perform on our website, from site and page visits, through to conversion (completing one of our online forms).
This conversion tracking helps us to measure the engagement and return of investment of our Ads placed on Facebook. We do not collect or store personal information in the process of using Facebook pixels.
Performance cookies (Hubspot)
Third-party analytics cookies are also set by our marketing platform Hubspot. This is for the purpose of tracking individual visitor behaviour on our website (namely number of website visits and pages viewed), to help us monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
More information about Hubspot cookies can be found here.
By using our website, you agree we may place these types of cookies on your device.
Performance cookies (Hotjar Ltd)
Hotjar’s tools allow us to analyse what users do on our website. Hotjar provides services including heatmaps, visitor recordings, funnels and form analysis, feedback polls, and surveys. This information is used to improve the user experience on the website.
Hotjar cookies are set as soon as a user loads a page which contains the Hotjar code. The cookie contains a universally unique identifier (UUID) which allows Hotjar to track the same visitor across multiple pages and sessions.
More information about Hotjar cookies can be found here.
By using our website, you agree to these types of cookies being placed on your device.
Targeted advertising cookies
We use these cookies to deliver adverts which are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.
These cookies remember that you have visited our website and use this information to tailor advertising for our products and services when you visit other websites.
The cookies are placed by third-party advertising networks. The data contained in these cookies is completely anonymous and doesn't contain any of your personal details.
We use Google DoubleClick and LinkedIn for targeted advertising. Find out more about Google advertising cookies here. Find out more about LinkedIn cookies here.
For more information on advertising cookies generally, please visit the AdChoices website.
By using our website, you agree to these types of cookies being placed on your device.
OneTrust Cookie Compliance
We use a cookie compliance company called OneTrust who are a third party control on what cookies are used within the site. If you would like to find out more about the cookies OneTrust oversee please click here
How to manage your cookies
We use cookies to ensure the best experience for our website users. Accepting cookies is usually the best way to make sure you get the best from a website.
If you wish to control or disable cookies, you can easily do this through your browser settings. However, restricting cookies may affect your experience on our website and prevent some services and tools from working.
All browsers are different. Depending on the browser you are using, cookies can be managed according to the steps below.
Microsoft Internet Explorer:
- Choose the menu ‘tools’ then ‘Internet Options’
- Click on the ‘privacy’ tab
- Select the setting the appropriate setting
More detailed instructions are available here.
Google Chrome
- Click on the menu icon at the top-right of your browser and select 'Settings'
- Click the ‘Advanced’ tab, locate the ‘Privacy and Security’ section and select the ‘Content settings’ button
- Select ‘Cookies’ menu item and locate 'Allow sites to save and read cookie data'
More detailed instructions are available here.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Click on the menu icon at the top-right of your browser window and select 'Preferences'
- Then select the 'Privacy and Security' tab
- Locate the 'History' section, then select 'use custom settings for history'
More detailed instructions are available here.
Apple Safari
- Click on the cog icon at the top of your browser window and select the ‘Preferences’ option
- Click on ‘Security’
- Select the appropriate “Cookies and website data” option
More detailed instructions are available here.
Browsers Not Listed
Please check the help settings within your browser or use a search engine to find answers on the best way to enable or disable cookies in your chosen browser.
By Brower Extension
Alternatively, you may wish to install a browser extension such as Ghostery.
Ghostery detects and blocks tracking technologies on the websites you visit to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter, and protect your data and privacy. It keeps you informed on what companies are tracking you and provides you the tools you need to control what to block and when.
To find out more or to download the Ghostery extension for your browser click here.
More information
For more information on cookies, what they do, and how to control them, please visit the following external links: