Cookie Policy

Last updated: 23.04.2023

SKY Think Tank Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ‘STT’ and/or ‘Service Provider’) operate and provide professional services.

These include:

• Affiliate partners

Together, these firms form the STT network. ‘STT’ is often used to refer either to individual firms within the ‘STT’ network or to several or all of them collectively.

Kindly note that for other services, such as Consulting related services, Audit and Training, STT works collaboratively with the following companies:

• Refer to mentioned partner when respective service is offered or/and provided.

STT uses cookies on the https://www.skythinktank.com website (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Website’), and the server location is in USA.

This Policy explains what cookies are, why and how we use cookies, how third parties may use cookies on our website, your choices in relation to cookies and any other information about cookies.

1.COOKIES – WHAT ARE THEY

Cookies are small text files (mainly numbers and letters) placed or downloaded on your device when you visit or access a website. On each subsequent visit cookies are sent back to the originating website.

Cookies are useful since they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to store information about your preferences or past actions.

Certain cookies are required for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network – others may be required for the provision of service over the internet.

Cookies may also be desirable to improve the user’s experience, in which case we will ask for your consent to use such cookies.

2.HOW WE USE COOKIES

STT uses cookies for a variety of purposes, mainly:

• to improve the user’s experience;

• to distinguish between visitors and their location;

• to improve the use and functionality of the website;

• to enable certain functions of the website (e.g. navigation, access to secure areas, aggregate statistics about the number of visitors)

• to obtain data about how the website is being used.

Furthermore, the collection of such data enables us to develop, optimise and facilitate the use of our website.

Cookies may either be deleted automatically when the user closes the website browser (also known as ‘session cookies’) or are stored on the user’s device to facilitate future visits (also known as ‘permanent cookies’). The latter cookies will also be deleted automatically after a specified period of time.

3.WHAT COOKIES WE USE

The Domain uses 13 cookies in total.

The following table lists:

• the type of cookies placed on the website;

• their function;

• the purpose(s) for which the data is collected and for how long it is retained.

Please note that the name of the cookies may change over time.

Preference Cookies: Preference cookies enable the website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

• Provider

• Cookie Name

• Expiration

• Purpose and Description

• Type

• ads.linkedin.com

• lang

• Session

• Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website

• HTTP

• linkedin.com

• Lang

• Session

• Set by Linked In when a webpage contains an embedded “Follow Us” Panel.

• HTTP

Statistic Cookies: Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

• Provider

• Cookie Name

• Expiration

• Purpose and Description

• Type

• skythinktank.com

• _ga

• 2 Years

• Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the w eb site.

• HTTP

• skythinktank.com

• _gat

• 1 day

• Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate

• HTTP

• skythinktank.com

• _gid

• 1 day

• Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

• HTTP

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.

• Provider

• Cookie Name

• Expiration

• Purpose and Description

• Type

• skythinktank.com

• _fbp

• 3 Months

• Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third-party

• advertisers.

• HTTP

• Google.com

• ads/ga-audiences

• Session

• Used by Google Ad Words to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.

• Pixel

• Linkedin.com

• Bcookie

• 2 Years

Used by the social networking service, Linked In, for tracking the use of embedded services.

• HTTP

• Linkedin.com

• Bscookie

• 2 years

• Used by the social networking service, Linked In, for tracking the use of embedded services.

• HTTP

• Facebook.com

• Fr

• 3 months

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

• HTTP

• Linkedin.com

• Lidc

• 1 day

Used by the social networking Service. Linked In, for tracking the use of embedded services.

• HTTP

• Facebook.com

• Tr

• Session

• Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

• Pixel

• Linkedin.com

• UserMatchHistory

• 29 days

Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences.

• HTTP

4.YOUR CHOICES

When visiting our website, you will be requested to accept and/or manage your cookie settings.

We can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of the website. However, your consent is required for all other types of cookies.

You may change your mind and may refuse to accept, delete or block cookies at any point in time. Please note that if you do so, you might not be able to make use of the full functionality and the features of the website, you may not be able to store your preferences and some of our pages might not display properly.

5.HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES

You can control and/or delete cookies. For more information, please refer to: https://www.aboutcookies.org.

All cookies on your computer can be deleted and you can set most browsers to prevent cookies from being placed. If you do this, you may manually have to adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.

6.CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

This Policy may be updated from time to time. If we make significant changes to this Policy, we will upload a notice regarding the same on the website. However, it is advisable to regularly check this Policy so as to ensure that you are aware of the most updated version of this Policy.