1. Contact details
PPL publishes and operates this Website at the url http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk (the "Website") and the People Management magazine (the "Magazine") on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ("CIPD") and CIPD Enterprises Limited ("CIPDE").
2. Cookies
A “cookie” is a piece of software that attaches to the hard drive of your computer and remembers information about the configuration of your computer. We use this information to track your movements through our Website, to find out how it is being used and to assess its usefulness. Personal information about you is not collected during the tracking process.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly and are used by most major websites. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Click here to find out more about cookies.
3. How we use cookies on our Website and what information we collect
Two types of cookies are used on this Website:
(a) Session cookies
Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website. We use session cookies:
(i) to help us to authenticate you as a registered user, giving you access to your user profile and certain otherwise inaccessible areas of the Website;
(ii) to track the number of visits to the Website;
(iii) to track which advertising banners are seen on the Website;
(iv) to compile anonymous statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Website such as details of the pages visited per session on the Website and the number of return visits to the Website (we cannot identify you personally in this way); and
(v) to enable basic personalisation of the Website.
(b) Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer than session cookies (how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie but could be up to 2 years). We use persistent cookies:
(i) to enable the Website to remember who you are and authenticate you automatically if you did not log out at the end of your previous session. Some areas of the Website do not accept this level of security and you will need to enter your username and password again;
(ii) to allow the collection of certain anonymous statistics about how our registered users use the Website, for example, statistics on how many registered users have logged in to the Website, the number of return visits to the Website etc;
(iii) to keep track of your current shopping session to personalise your experience and so that you may retrieve your shopping basket at any time; and
(iv) to enable advanced personalisation of the Website.
(c) Third-party cookies
Third-party organisations that are related to PPL and/or CIPD and/or CIPDE use cookies via this Website, but only for the purposes of helping us to authenticate you as a registered user, giving you access to certain third party websites.
4. Disabling/enabling cookies
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. For further information on how to do this, please refer to www.allaboutcookies.org. However please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Website.
5. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the Website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on Website activity for Website operators and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
By using this Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
People Management Website Cookie Policy
May 2010