The OPGM website uses cookies to help customise your experience. 'Cookies' are small text files that are stored by the browser or by a mobile phone (Android or iPhone) on your computer or mobile device. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a 'memory' for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately.
We may collect information about your computer, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
All of our web servers record each page request, together with the time and date, and the Internet (IP) address of the user who requested the page.
Among the tracking tools we use are UTM codes and Google Analytics cookies.
UTM codes allow us to determine when a user has arrived on our site from an external link (such as a link in one of our email newsletters) or from an advertisement on our site or placed with a third-party website, social media platform, or publication. The data we receive from these codes does not contain personally identifiable information.
We use Google Analytics cookies to count page visits, record traffic sources and compile other website user activity data. The data we receive from these cookies typically does not contain personally identifiable information. Server logs allow us to view general trends, such as which areas of the site are popular, the most frequent paths that users follow, and so on. This helps us to improve the site for you in future.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve the site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us to:
- estimate audience size and usage patterns;
- store preferences information to allow for Website customising; and
- recognise members’ log in details for return visits to the site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, the site will issue cookies when you log on to it.
