We automatically collect statistical information regarding website traffic. Part of this information is collected through the use of cookies. A cookie is a small text file saved to your computer and allows our website to follow your visit and to recognise your computer when you visit our website again. A cookie is not a program and does not contain virus, nor spreads malicious software. Cookies will be used to measure traffic, develop and improve our web services.

We may use cookies to save your preferences or language to provide a better experience on our websites.

We automatically log the following information about your visit:

• Anonymised Internet Protocol (IP) address & Internet Service Provider
• geography down to region and city level
• time of access
• browser type and language
• operating system
• screen resolution
• pages viewed
• the web page you visited before our site

We collect information about your usage and activity on our sites e.g. visited pages, words searched for in our site search engine and whether your computer/browser has previously accessed our sites. The information collected by these cookies will not be used for any other purposes than to help improve the services it provides to our users and for internal reporting in Ramboll. If you as a user gives consent, we may use the information for marketing purposes (lead-scoring and profiling). This includes which pages you visited and when. We use our own products, and products of third parties acting on our behalf, to analyse, optimise and improve our sites.

Ramboll uses web analytics services. These provide us with statistical information about users. The services process anonymised IP addresses and information from cookies used on the Ramboll websites, so that we know how many page views these have, the number of users, which browsers users are using (so that we can target resources in the right way to maximise compatibility for the majority of users) and in which country, city or region users are located. Our web analytics services store data for 25 months. You can see which cookies are in use under “Cookies use on the site” below.

Third party cookies

We sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from other websites, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Ramboll does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third-party website for more information about their use of cookies.

All our websites use embedded "share" buttons to enable users to easily share information with friends through a number of popular social networks. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. Ramboll does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about their use of cookies.

We also use marketing automation tools. These will only process data after you have actively submitted a form and explicitly opted-in. A heatmapping tool is being used by Ramboll to view which parts of a page is clicked and how far down users scroll. No personal information is tracked using this tool.

Our video platform tracks, which videos from this platform are clicked on our websites and how long each of these are watched. This is done without personally identifying individual users.

How to reject or delete cookies

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser will tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org.uk which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of the Ramboll websites.