Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Drummond Group, LLC (“Drummond,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website www.drummondgroup.com (“the Website”) By using the Website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) when you visit a website. They are commonly used to make websites work more efficiently, provide a personalized browsing experience, and gather information about website usage for analytics and marketing purposes.

Types of cookies and how we use them.

We perform cookie scans on our Website on a regular basis and maintain our cookie list updated. We classify cookies in four categories:

• Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They enable basic functionalities such as page navigation, access to secure areas, cookies that enable website visitors to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. The Website cannot function properly without these cookies.
  
  -__cf_bm Expiration: 1 hours Description: Cloudflare’s bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions.
  
  -BrowserId_sec Expiration: 365 days Description: Used to log secure browser sessions/visits for internal-only product analytics.
  -sfdc-stream Expiration: 3 hours Description: Used to properly route server requests within Salesforce infrastructure for sticky sessions.
  
  -force-proxy-stream Expiration: 3 hours Description: Used to ensure client requests hit the same proxy hosts and are more likely to retrieve content from cache.
  
  -force-stream Expiration: 3 hours Description: Used to properly route server requests within Salesforce infrastructure for sticky sessions.
  
  -YSC Expiration: Session Description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
  
  -DEVICE_INFO Expiration: 180 days Description: Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
  
  
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to track user interactions when they are using the Website. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form.
  
  -__utmz Expiration: 180 days Description: Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server
  
  -_gid Expiration: 1 days Description: ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity
  
  -_gat Expiration: 0 hours Description: Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager
  
  -_ga Expiration: 730 days Description: ID used to identify users
  
  
•  Preferences cookies. These cookies enable the Website to remember choices you make (such as language preferences) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. They may also be used to provide the services you have requested, such as expert consultation.
  
  
• Marketing cookies. These cookies record users’ visits to our Website, the pages they have visited, time spent on each page and the links they have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to our website visitors interests.
  
  -_gcl_au Expiration: 90 days Description: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
  
  -test_cookie Expiration: 1 hours Description: This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies.
  
  -VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Expiration: 180 days Description: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

Cookie Management
Depending on your location, you can manage or delete or opt-out from each cookie category (except necessary cookies) by clicking on the “set custom permission” in the cookie banner of our website or through your browser settings. However, please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality and performance of the Website.

Your Consent
By using the Website, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to the use of cookies, you should adjust your browser settings accordingly or refrain from using the Website.

Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our cookie practices or legal requirements. Any updates will be posted on this page, and your continued use of the Website after the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookie Policy or cookie practices, please contact us at privacyoffice@drummondgroup.com