COOKIE POLICY
Last updated September 2022
This Cookie Policy explains how AIMS International (“Company“, “we“, “us“, and “our“) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites at https://aimsinternational.com, (“Websites“). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.
About AIMS International:
AIMS International is a global organisation active in Executive Search, Board Services and Talent Management. We are present in 50+ countries with several hundred consultants. Thanks to seamless cross-border cooperation and efficient industry practice teams, we are able to serve efficiently a great number of multinational clients.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, AIMS International) 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 also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites 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 Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.
The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. 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. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which 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.
The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):
Name: | JSESSIONID |
Purpose: | Used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server in Java™ 2 Platform Enterprise Edition web applications. It is a necessary cookie that expires at the end of a session. |
Provider: | .www.linkedin.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | server_cookie |
Expires in: | session |
Name: | __cf_bm |
Purpose: | Cloudflare places the cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. |
Provider: | .aimsinternational.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | server_cookie |
Expires in: | 30 minutes |
Name: | __cf_bm |
Purpose: | Cloudflare places the cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. |
Provider: | .podbean.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | server_cookie |
Expires in: | 30 minutes |
Performance and functionality cookies:
These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Websites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.
Name: | AWSELB |
Purpose: | Used as a load balancer for web applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). |
Provider: | www.podbean.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 5 minutes |
Name: | PHPSESSID |
Purpose: | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. |
Provider: | aimsinternational.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | session |
Analytics and customisation cookies:
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our Websites for you.
Name: | _gid |
Purpose: | Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session. |
Provider: | .aimsinternational.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 day |
Name: | googlegdn_sync |
Purpose: | __________ |
Provider: | aimsinternational.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | pixel_tracker |
Expires in: | session |
Name: | _gat |
Purpose: | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager |
Provider: | .aimsinternational.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 minute |
Name: | _ga |
Purpose: | It records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user. It is a HTTP cookie that expires after 2 years. |
Provider: | .aimsinternational.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 11 months 29 days |
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.
Name: | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Purpose: | YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time. |
Provider: | .youtube.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | server_cookie |
Expires in: | 5 months 27 days |
Name: | bkdc |
Purpose: | Used by Bluekai to collect data on visitor browsing habits on different websites using the tracker’s unique ID number. The data is later used for optimising marketing campaigns |
Provider: | .bluekai.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 5 months 27 days |
Name: | uuid |
Purpose: | Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used for targeted ads. |
Provider: | .mathtag.com |
Service: | |
Country: | Switzerland |
Type: | server_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 27 days |
Name: | uid |
Purpose: | Contains a unique ID to identify a user |
Provider: | .addthis.com |
Service: | |
Country: | Netherlands |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 24 days |
Name: | test_cookie |
Purpose: | A session cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
Provider: | .doubleclick.net |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | server_cookie |
Expires in: | 15 minutes |
Name: | TDCPM |
Purpose: | Set by the CloudFlare service to register a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. Expires after 1 year. |
Provider: | .adsrvr.org |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 11 months 30 days |
Name: | lidc |
Purpose: | These cookies are associated with a B2B marketing platform, formerly known as Bizo, which is now owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn’s marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targeting. |
Provider: | .linkedin.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | server_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 day |
Name: | YSC |
Purpose: | YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time. |
Provider: | .youtube.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | session |
Name: | IDE |
Purpose: | Used to measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. Expires in 1.5 years. |
Provider: | .doubleclick.net |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 11 months 29 days |
Name: | bcookie |
Purpose: | Used to optimise the range of advertising on Linkedin |
Provider: | .linkedin.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 11 months 30 days |
Social networking cookies:
These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Websites through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.
Name: | di2 |
Purpose: | Allows website visitors to share content on websites across popular social media networks. It expires after 2 years. |
Provider: | .addthis.com |
Service: | |
Country: | Netherlands |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 24 days |
Name: | __atuvc |
Purpose: | Used by addthis sharing widget to show the share count of an article on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before the share count cache is updated |
Provider: | www.podbean.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 1 month |
Name: | mus |
Purpose: | Set on sites that use Addthis social media share plugin. Persistent cookie that is saved for 730 days |
Provider: | .addthis.com |
Service: | |
Country: | Netherlands |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 24 days |
Name: | bscookie |
Purpose: | Cookie used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature on 3rd party websites |
Provider: | .www.linkedin.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 11 months 30 days |
Name: | ouid |
Purpose: | Used by AddThis to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in their site. Expires in 1 year. |
Provider: | .addthis.com |
Service: | |
Country: | Netherlands |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 24 days |
Name: | loc |
Purpose: | Is a geolocation cookie, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically. Persistent that stays for 90 days |
Provider: | .addthis.com |
Service: | |
Country: | Netherlands |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 1 month |
Name: | na_id |
Purpose: | Sets a unique user id to track a user on a site. Persistent cookie that stays for 730 days |
Provider: | .addthis.com |
Service: | |
Country: | Netherlands |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 24 days |
Name: | uvc |
Purpose: | Set by addthis social sharing plugin to allow for content sharing on sites |
Provider: | .addthis.com |
Service: | |
Country: | Netherlands |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 1 year 1 month |
Name: | __atuvs |
Purpose: | Used by addthis sharing widget to show the share count of an article on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before the share count cache is updated |
Provider: | www.podbean.com |
Service: | |
Country: | United States |
Type: | http_cookie |
Expires in: | 30 minutes |
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Websites or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Do you serve targeted advertising?
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Websites. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.
How often will you update this Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at [email protected].
