A cookie is a small amount of text that a web site may send to
your browser when you visit the site. In turn, the browser will
send the cookie back to the web site each time you view a page on
that site. This is done so that the web site can give consistent
information as you browse from page to page.
Browsers store the cookies on your computer's hard disk. Each
time you visit a site, the site will remember who you are because
the browser sends it the cookie.
Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your
preferred interests more quickly - most major websites use cookies.
Cookies alone cannot be used to identify you.
A cookie will
typically contain the name of the web site from which the cookie
has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie and a value, usually a
randomly generated unique number.
More information about cookies is available here .
How do we use Cookies?
Two types of cookies are used on this website. Session Cookies
are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your
browser until you leave the site.
Persistent Cookies remain in
the cookie file of your browser for longer (though how long will
depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
Session Cookies are used:
- To allow the system to carry information such as display
settings across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter
information
- Within registration to allow you to access stored
information.
Persistent Cookies are used:
- To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (using a number,
you cannot be identified personally) when you return to our
website
- To allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your
preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts
repeatedly
- To compile information about how users use our site and to help
us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you
personally in this way.
Third Party Cookies:
Third parties serve cookies via this site because our pages
include links to their web sites. We have created these links so
that those companies can help us communicate more effectively with
people who may be interested in our products. These links are used
for the following purposes:
- To count the number of anonymous users of our site
- To configure content on our site for visitors who are
responding to our marketing communications
- To count the number of visitors who are referred to our site by
search engines such as Google.
Web Beacons
Web Beacons (sometimes also known as clear gifs) are tagged
electronic images used in some web sites and in e-mails as a way of
collecting statistics about how users are navigating through a site
or responding to e-mails.
Beacons do not contain any personal information but may be used
to identify the recipient when a marketing e-mail is opened.
The Solarsoft web site does not use beacons. However, Solarsoft
and our partners may use beacons in marketing e-mails that we send.
This helps us understand how recipients react to our marketing
messages and helps us improve the relevance of our
communications.
Disabling Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying
the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use
all the interactive features of our site if cookies are
disabled.
In addition, most browsers have a setting that will cause the
browser to advise you that a cookie has been sent to your machine
and will seek your permission before it is accepted and stored on
your computer.
Finally, your browser preference settings will offer a facility
to delete stored cookies from your computer.
The location of the controls for managing cookies varies from
browser to browser. See your browser's help pages if you are not
sure how to inspect and adjust these settings.
Web beacons in e-mails are only effective in messages formatted
as HTML. You can disable the operation of web beacons by viewing
e-mails as plain text rather than as HTML. In addition, most e-mail
applications have the ability to show HTML formatted messages
without downloading images. This speeds up the presentation of the
message and has the effect of disabling the operation of any tagged
images being used as beacons.
See your browser's help pages for information about how to
control the operation of your e-mail software.