We use cookies and similar technologies to make this website work properly, and to provide you with the most relevant services and content to our website visitors and clients; we place small data files known as cookies on your device. This Cookie Policy provides you with information about cookies and how you can control them for this website.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Policy on our website.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files that contain a small amount of data and are downloaded on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize your device and your preferences (such as language) and can be used to improve your user experience online.
Cookies help us improve your user experience when using our website and help us understand what our visitors find useful so we can develop more relevant content to better serve our visitors and clients.
Cookies Used on This Website
Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around our website and providing access to features such as your profile and purchases, member-only resources, and other secure website areas. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes, and they do not remember where you were on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled. The table below provides more information about these cookies.
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose | Type |
| __cfduid | techregulation.com | 29 days | Used by the content network Cloudflare to identify trusted web traffic. | HTTP Cookie |
| cmtt_last_letter | techregulation.com | Session | Used by the content network Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | HTML Cookie |
| CookieConsent | techregulation.com | 1 year | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | HTTP Cookie |
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose | Type |
| pll_language | techregulation.com | 1 year | This cookie is used to determine the preferred language of the visitor and sets the language accordingly on the website, if possible. | HTTP Cookie |
Statistics Cookies. Statistic cookies help website owners understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our website is being used. We anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymized data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. 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. The following table has more information about these cookies.
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose | Type |
| _ga | techregulation.com | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that generates statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | HTTP Cookie |
| _gat | techregulation.com | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | HTTP Cookie |
| _gid | techregulation.com | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | HTTP Cookie |
To view an overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies, please go here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
You may install a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by going here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Marketing Cookies. Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and, thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. Information about how to opt-out of targeted advertising can be found here: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose | Type |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | 1 year | Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for the measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral fees between websites | HTTP Cookie |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | google.com | Session | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites to present more relevant advertisements – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. | Pixel |
| pagead/landing | google.com | Session | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites to present more relevant advertisements – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. | Pixel |
| pagead/landing | doubleclick.net | Session | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites in order to present more relevant advertisements – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. | Pixel |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | 1 day | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | HTTP |
Third-Party Websites’ Cookies
We use third-party cookies, meaning cookies that are set by someone other than the website owner, for purposes such as collecting information on visitor behaviour, demographics, or personalized marketing. When using our website, you may encounter embedded content, such as social share function to social media, Instagram content, Twitter feeds, and links to professional blogs on relevant topics for our visitors and clients. These websites and embedded content may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites, even if you are directed to them from our website.
How to Control and Delete Cookies
Consent Tool
Our Cookie Consent Tool can be used to customize your cookie preferences. The tool will record when you have consented to our cookie notice. The tool controls specifically the marketing cookies and analytical cookies set by our primary website (techregulation.com). Essential cookies cannot be disabled, and the tool cannot be used to block cookies on third-party websites linked to our website.
Updating Your Preferences
If you wish to update your cookie preferences once you have used our tool initially, please see here.
Change your consent
Revoke your consent
Using Your Web Browser
Many of the cookies used on our website can be enabled or disabled also by disabling the cookies in your web browser. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions located within the “Help”, “Tools”, or “Edit” menus in your web browser. Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser; you will need to do this yourself from within your browser.
Cookies that Have Been Set in the Past
If you have disabled one or more Analytics Cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies before your disabled preference is set; however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information. For our marketing cookie, when a user opts out of tracking, a new cookie is placed to prevent users from being tracked.
Questions?
If you have any questions or concerns, you are welcome to contact us by sending an email to us at [email protected]