Effective Date: 08/20/2020

This Cookie Notice explains how The National Society of Professional Surveyors (the “NSPS”, “us” or “we”) uses “cookies” or similar technologies on our website and applies to all individuals who access or use this website.

When you first access our website from certain jurisdictions, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept” you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Notice.

We may change this Notice from time to time, so please review this page periodically for changes. The “effective date” provided at the top of the page will indicate when the Notice was most recently updated.

You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time (see How to Control Cookies, below). You can change your browser settings to refuse or restrict cookies, and you may delete them after they have been placed on your device at any time. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of the website that you access may take more time to work or may not function properly.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small files containing a string of characters that we may store on your computer or mobile device when you access the website. When you access the website again, the cookies allow us to recognise your browser. Cookies may store your preferences and other information but cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

Cookies set by a website owner (in this case, NSPS) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable us to provide third party features or functionality through the website (i.e. advertising, social media functions and analytics).

THE COOKIES WE USE

Cookies make the use of our website easier by, among other things, saving your preferences. We may also use cookies to deliver content tailored to your interests. Our cookies may enable us to relate your use of the website to personal data that you previously provided.

The information that we collect with cookies allows us to statistically analyse usage of the website, and to improve and customise our content and other offerings. However, we only disclose information collected with cookies to third parties on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you.

The specific types of first party and third party cookies placed by our website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below:

HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES 

When you first access our website from certain jurisdictions, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept”, you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Notice. 

You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time, although you may not be able to use certain features of our website. You can do this by activating the settings on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies.

Please follow the links below to helpful information for the most popular browsers:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

• Google Chrome: 

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

• Mozilla Firefox: 

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

• Apple Safari: 

https://support.apple.com/safari

In addition, you can exercise advertising cookie choices by visiting:

• http://www.aboutads.info/choices/,
• http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/; or 
• http://youronlinechoices.com/.

WEB BEACONS

As well as cookies, we use other technologies to recognise and track your use of our website. A web beacon (also known as a “tracking pixel” or “clear GIF”) is a clear graphic image (typically a one-pixel tag) that is delivered through a web browser or HTML e-mail, typically in conjunction with a cookie.

Web beacons allows us, for example, to monitor how users move from one page within our websites to another, to track access to our communications, to understand whether users have come to our websites from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to measure how ads have been viewed and to improve site performance. 

TARGETED ADVERTISING 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and service that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.