How we use cookies
Edgewater Associate Limited website uses "analytical cookies" to help us have a better understanding of our visitor activities.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is either stored in your computer or mobile device memory temporarily (a “session” cookie) or placed on your hard drive (a “persistent” cookie) by a web server. Cookies are not used to run programmes or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and your computer and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies can also be used to enable websites to recognise the devices you are using so that they function correctly, to keep a record of the number of visitors to the site, and to analyse how it is used. They can make websites more user friendly and easier to navigate.
Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies collect some personal information and group it together with information about other visitor’s activities to help us analyse patterns of use rather than individual visitor’s activities. This information is only used to improve our website and it is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purposes.
We use Google Analytics to collect information about the number of visitors to our website, when they use it, how they move around the site, and which pages are most popular. This table lists cookies used by Edgewater Associate Limited.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
| _ga .edgewater.co.im | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | HTTPs | |
| _gid .edgewater.co.im | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | 1 day | HTTPs | |
| _gat_gtag_UA_34278064_1 .edgewater.co.im | This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users. | 1 minute | HTTPs |
Google Maps
We use Google Maps on the Contact Us page to provide detailed information on how to locate our offices. Google Maps stores up to four cookies: khcookie, NID, SNID and PREF. We use Google's interactive maps because we believe they provide a helpful way for our visitors to identify how best to travel to us. We use the Google Maps tools on the basis that Google adheres to its privacy policy and its terms of service for Google Maps.
Formstack
Some of our contact forms use a service called Formstack, which is a form builder tool. Formstack generate the forms and forward the submissions to Edgewater. Formstack creates a cookie called AWSALBCORS which registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.
Additional information
You can also view additional information in our privacy policy.
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