EP Minerals Cookie Policy

EP Minerals' Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how EP Minerals use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our Website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the site again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information.

Cookies provide a convenience feature to save you time or tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register on our Website, or request information, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. When you return to the same Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the customized features.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, EP Minerals and EP Engineered Clays) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. For example, EP Minerals keeps track of the Website and pages you visit to determine what portion of the Website is the most popular or most used. This data is used to deliver customized content and promotions within the Website to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a subject area. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

What types of cookies do we use and how do we use them?

The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform. For a list of the cookies used by EP Minerals, see this page. These cookies include:

Essential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.

Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too.

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided below.

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As how you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com. You may opt out by clicking here: http://preferences.truste.com/ (or if located in the European Union, by clicking here: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/). Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic advertisements.

Essential website cookies: Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website to you, you cannot refuse them. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings however, as described above.

Cookies set on EPMinerals.com

Cookie Name Vendor Purpose
__cfduid CrazyEgg, HubSpot
SiteSearch360 		Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
JSESSIONID New Relic Preserves users states across page requests.
_ga Google Analytics Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_gat Google Analytics Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
_gid Google Analytics Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
__hssrc, __ab12# HubSpot
Collects anonymous statistical data related to the user's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded.
__ptq.gif HubSpot Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
hubspotutk HubSpot Keeps track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to the marketing platform HubSpot on form
submission and used when de-duplicating contacts.
IDE Google DoubleClick Used to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
NID, pagead/1p-user-list/# Google Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
r/collect Google DoubleClick This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
rc::a, rc::b, rc::c Google Used in context with video-advertisement. The cookie limits the number of times a visitor is shown the sa me advertisement-content. The cookie is also used to ensure relevance of the video-advertisement to the specific visitor.
test_cookie Google DoubleClick Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.
_rubycms_session EP Minerals Used to track user sessions on epminerals.com.