COOKIE POLICY

Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.

They allow websites to recognise your device, remember preferences, understand website usage and provide certain functionality.

GATD may use cookies and similar technologies on www.globalatd.com.

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Operate essential website functions
• Remember your cookie choices and simple preferences
• Measure website traffic and understand how visitors use our website (only with your consent)
• Show embedded content such as our location map (only with your consent)
• Improve our content and services

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are needed for the website to work and cannot be switched off. They are used to:

• Remember your cookie choices
• Keep authorised GATD staff signed in to the website administration area

3.2 Functional Storage

We store a small note in your browser so the website announcement pop-up is not shown to you repeatedly.

3.3 Analytics Cookies

With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the website. Google Analytics may collect information such as:

• Pages visited and time spent on pages
• General geographic location (city or country level)
• Device and browser information
• How you arrived at our website (traffic sources)

Google Analytics does not load, and sets no cookies, unless you accept Analytics cookies.

3.4 External Media

Some pages show content from other websites, such as the Google Maps location map on our Contact page and programme videos hosted on YouTube or Vimeo. These providers may set their own cookies. The map only loads if you allow External media or choose to load it, and a video only loads when you choose to play it.

3.5 Marketing Cookies

We do not currently use marketing or advertising cookies.

The following third-party services are used on our website:

• Google Analytics (Google LLC) — website analytics, only with your consent
• Google Maps (Google LLC) — the location map on our Contact page
• YouTube (Google LLC) and Vimeo, Inc. — programme videos, when you choose to play them

These providers may place their own cookies or similar technologies on your device. Their use of information is governed by their respective privacy policies and terms.

Our social media share buttons and links are plain links: they do not load anything from those platforms until you click them.

Some images and icons are loaded from content delivery networks (flagcdn.com and cdnjs.cloudflare.com). These do not set cookies, but, as with any web request, they receive your IP address.

The table below lists the cookies and similar technologies currently used on our website:

You can manage cookies in the following ways:

• Accept or reject optional cookies using the cookie banner shown on your first visit
• Change your choices at any time using the “Cookie Settings” link in the website footer
• Delete existing cookies through your browser settings
• Configure your browser to block certain cookies

You can open your cookie preferences now: Cookie Settings.

Rejecting optional cookies does not stop the website from working. Some embedded content, such as the location map, will not load until you allow it.

When you first visit our website, a cookie banner asks whether you accept optional cookies. You can choose “Accept all”, “Reject all” or “Manage preferences”.

Analytics and External media cookies are switched off until you agree to them. Strictly necessary storage is always active because the website needs it to work.

Your choice is remembered for 12 months, after which we ask again. We will also ask again if we add new types of optional cookies.

You can withdraw or change your consent at any time using Cookie Settings in the footer. If you withdraw consent for Analytics, Google Analytics stops and its cookies are deleted from your browser.

Cookies and similar technologies may collect information that constitutes personal data.

Our processing of personal data is also governed by the GATD Privacy Policy.

GATD may update this Cookie Policy when our website, technologies, service providers or applicable requirements change.

The latest version will be published on this page.

If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact: