Privacy Policy
Website Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
C-Stream Ltd, a company registered in England under company number 03187571 and whose registered office is at 5 New Street Square, London EC4A 3TW, United Kingdom ("C-Stream", "we" or "us") is the operator of the website at www.gtnews.com (the "Website"). C-Stream respects your personal information and this Privacy Policy explains in general terms how we protect the privacy of your personal information. The principles set out in this Privacy Policy apply to any personal information you provide to us via the Website.
For the purposes of this Policy, "personal information" is information about, and which identifies, individuals whether that information is obtained from the relevant individual or from a third party.
By explaining our Privacy Policy to you, we hope that you will better understand how we keep personal information confidential and secure while using it to comply with our statutory obligations and provision of information about us to shareholders and other interested parties.
2. Your personal information
We will collect and use your personal information you provide in order to:
- administer your subscription with us;
- verify your identity (when you login to the Website);
- carry out market research and tracking of the use of different areas of our Website;
- send you the gtnews e-mail bulletins & newsletters.
We will hold your information during the term of your subscription and for a period of two years following the end of your last subscription in order to manage our accounts, to reply to your queries about your subscription and to enable us to easily reinstate your subscriptions where requested. These records are removed from our systems once this period has elapsed.
3. Disclosing your personal information
We may use your personal data in any way that we consider is necessary to carry out our responsibilities to you or to maintain and preserve our records. This may include releasing the data to third parties or transferring the data outside the European Economic Area.
4. Cookies
The Website uses "cookies" (small items of information stored on your computer's hard drive by your browser). A number of cookies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the Website and will last for longer.
We use cookies for the following reasons:
Session management
- a cookie helps us to create a specific log-in session for the Website so that page requests are delivered in the most effective way
Registration
- a cookie can be used to store registration information in an area of the Website so that a you do not need to re-enter it on subsequent visits to that area
Functionality
- we may use cookies so that we can customise elements of the services available through the Website for you.
Performance
- we collect statistical information about how our visitors use the Website so that we can improve the Website and learn which parts of our content and communications are most popular.
Some of the cookies used by our Website are set by us, and some are set by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can also learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browser. Please note however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on the Website you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website if you do so.
a) Our cookies
| Cookie name |
Purpose |
More Information |
| __gads |
Tracking used by Google Analytics (a web analytics tool) to help us analyse our site traffic and understand how visitors use our site. |
Cookie expires in 2 years and 48hrs For more information on Google Analytics cookies, click here. |
| __utma |
Tracking used by Google Analytics (a web analytics tool) to help us analyse our site traffic and understand how visitors use our site. |
Cookie expires in 2 years and 48hrs For more information on Google Analytics cookies, click here. |
| __utmb |
Tracking used by Google Analytics (a web analytics tool) to help us analyse our site traffic and understand how visitors use our site. |
Cookie expires in 30mins For more information on Google Analytics cookies, click here. |
| __utmc |
Tracking used by Google Analytics (a web analytics tool) to help us analyse our site traffic and understand how visitors use our site. |
Session cookie For more information on Google Analytics cookies, click here. |
| __utmv |
Tracking used by Google Analytics (a web analytics tool) to help us analyse our site traffic and understand how visitors use our site. |
Cookie expires in 2 years and 48hrs For more information on Google Analytics cookies, click here. |
| __utmz |
Tracking used by Google Analytics (a web analytics tool) to help us analyse our site traffic and understand how visitors use our site. |
Cookie expires in 6 Months For more information on Google Analytics cookies, click here. |
| _mkto_trk |
Tracking used by Google Analytics (a web analytics tool) to help us analyse our site traffic and understand how visitors use our site. |
Cookie expires in 2 years 48hrs For more information on Google Analytics cookies, click here. |
| EktGUID |
Used to match a user to Ektron community user object. Part of Ektron Content Management System that gtnews.com uses to run the website. |
Cookie expires in 1 Year |
| EkAnalytics |
Used by Ektron Content Management System as a default cookie. gtnews.com does not use this cookie. |
Cookie expires in 1 Year |
| ekContentRatingID |
Used to track whether a user rated something so that a user only gets to assign a rating once. Part of Ektron Content Management System. |
Cookie never expires |
| RadEditorGlobal SerializeCookie |
Used by the editor to store the size, position and visibility of its toolbars and modules on the client. a .Net cookie, it is set to be a site-wide cookie available to all pages - so as all editors on a site to retain the same user settings, rather than having the user re-set them for each page with an editor |
Expires in 10 years |
| AFPUserInfo |
Used for analytical purposes by gtnews.com, pulls member status, cert status, and if applicable, membership and cert expiration. |
Cookie expires in 1 year |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
Used for identifying a logged in user on the gtnews profile page section of the site |
Session cookie |
| ecmCookiesAccepted |
Used for identifying if a cookie warning banner has been accepted |
Cookie expires in 1 year |
| .ASPXAUTH |
Used for storing authentication data, such as login expiration, etc |
Cookie expires in 1 year, removed upon logout |
| AFP_Rememberme |
Used to store on/off state of remember me checkbox |
Cookie expires in 90 days |
| Ecm cookie |
Used to store various data about login preferences such as language, time zone of user, last login date, and other such info |
Cookie expires in 1 year |
| Ektron_Analytics_Overlay |
Used by Ektron Content Management System as a default cookie. gtnews.com does not use this cookie |
Cookie expires in 1 year |
b) Third party cookies
| Cookie name |
Purpose |
More Information |
| k |
3rd party tracking used by the gtnews twitter widget |
Twitter Privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy |
| guest_id |
3rd party tracking used by the gtnews twitter widget |
Twitter Privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy |
| _twitter_sess |
3rd party tracking used by the gtnews twitter widget |
Twitter Privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy |
| Original_refferer |
3rd party tracking used by the gtnews twitter widget |
Twitter Privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy |
| Other twitter.com domain cookies |
The Twitter widget we ise on the site is a script which is able to instantiate newer cookies. This is all encapsulated under the twitter privacy policy |
Twitter Privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy |
| id |
3rd party tracking used by DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP). We use this service to serve our advertising banners and this cookie allows us to track interactions with our advertisments. |
Cookie expires in 2 years. For more information on doubleclick cookies, click here. |
| _drt_ |
3rd party tracking used by DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP). We use this service to serve our advertising banners and this cookie allows us to track interactions with our advertisments. |
For more information on doubleclick cookies, click here. |
| AUTH_PKT |
3rd party tracking used for the jobs section (jobs.gtnews.com). We use a 3rd party service to serve our jobs section on gtnews. This cookie allows us to track user interactions with the gtnews job section. |
Session Cookie |
| BTIBDATA |
3rd party tracking used for the jobs section (jobs.gtnews.com). We use a 3rd party service to serve our jobs section on gtnews. This cookie allows us to track user interactions with the gtnews job section. |
Cookie expires in 30 years |
| TRACKER_254367 |
3rd party tracking used for the jobs section (jobs.gtnews.com). We use a 3rd party service to serve our jobs section on gtnews. This cookie allows us to track user interactions with the gtnews job section. |
Session Cookie |
| btiJSCriteria |
3rd party tracking used for the jobs section (jobs.gtnews.com). We use a 3rd party service to serve our jobs section on gtnews. This cookie allows us to track user interactions with the gtnews job section. |
|
| JSessionID |
3rd party cookie used for tracking whitepaper downloads (www.keysurvey.com). This cookie lasts until the browser is closed.
It is used to identify your session with the server, so the server recognizes its conversation with a particular user.
These are necessary for a smooth experience with the application.
|
Session |
| SurveyID |
3rd party cookie used for tracking whitepaper downloads (www.keysurvey.com). If you are taking a survey on the system, it stores this cookie on your computer. This is so that if you leave the survey and return later, you can continue where you left off. It works together with the RID cookie to deliver your survey content to you upon your return. If you don't use this cookie, and the survey is not set up to use username and password or unique URLs, then the server will give someone returning to their survey a brand new survey. A duplicate response will likely be created in the reports as well. |
Cookie expires in 10 years |
| RID |
3rd party cookie used for tracking whitepaper downloads (www.keysurvey.com).RID (Respondent ID) is a cookie that works with the SurveyID cookie to identify someone who has left a survey and is now returning. If you don't use this cookie, and the survey is not set up to use username and password or unique URLs, then the server will give someone returning to their survey a brand new survey. A duplicate response will likely be created in the reports as well. |
Cookie expires in 10 years |
| CIntVerification |
3rd party cookie used for tracking whitepaper downloads (www.keysurvey.com). This cookie is used to test to see if your web browser has cookies enabled. The WorldAPP server also uses this cookie to help improve the server and web page speed by load-balancing traffic. |
Cookie expires in 1 day |
| BigipServerksDispatcher,
BigipServerksNginx,
BigipServerKsVoting
BigipServerksVoting360
BigipServerksMail
BigipServerksReport
|
3rd party cookie used for tracking whitepaper downloads (www.keysurvey.com).These cookies are used to improve server and web page speeds by allowing the server to recognize you and send your traffic to the fastest sub-server. Without these cookies a user always talks to the same servers, and new users will talk to the less burdened servers. |
Cookie expires in 1 day |
In addition to cookies, tracking Gifs or web beacons may be used by us or third parties in respect of your use of the Site. These are small image files within the content of our site or the body of our newsletters or advertising through which we or our service providers can recognise a cookie on your web browser which in turn enables us to understand which parts of the Website are visited, whether particular content is of interest and which advertisements are most effective.
5. Access
On payment of a small fee, you have the right to gain access to the personal information which we hold about you. In certain circumstances you may also require us to alter or remove any personal information we may hold about you. Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer, C-Stream Ltd, 5 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3TW, United Kingdom.
6. Security
C-stream will take all reasonable steps necessary to protect any personal information we may collect on you from misuse, loss or unauthorised access.
As the internet is not a secure environment, any information you submit over the Internet, including your email address, is sent at your own risk.
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time and you should therefore check it each time you visit this Website.
7. Contacting us
If at any time you would like to contact us with an enquiry about your information you can do so by sending any e-mail to us at support@gtnews.com or by writing to: C-Stream Ltd., 5 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3TW, United Kingdom. You can unsubscribe from gtnews at any time by sending an e-mail to support@gtnews.com or alternatively follow the link at the bottom of the gtnews e-mail bulletins & newsletters.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 17 June 2012.