What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a site. Cookies are then sent back to the originating site on each subsequent visit, or to another site that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a site to recognize a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu. For a video about cookies visit, www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies.

Cookies do a lot of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

The cookies used on this site have been categorized on the basis of the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide issued in April 2012. A list of all the cookies used on this site by category is set out below.

For some of our cookies we use Google Analytics as a third party to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our site. For further information on how Google collects and uses information on our behalf, please refer to the Google Policies & Principles page at www.google.com/intl/en/policies/.We may also use web beacons or other technologies for similar purposes and we may include these in marketing e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on. Web beacons do not place information on your device, but may work in conjunction with cookies to monitor site activity

What if I don’t want cookies?

By using our site you agree that we can place cookies on your device as explained below. If you want to remove existing cookies from your device you can do this using your browser options. If you want to block future cookies being placed on your device you can change your browser settings to do this. When you review your browser settings or options, you can identify the Avanade cookies by the fact they start with the letters “.AVA” or “ISA” in the name. For more information on managing cookies see www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/, Current “Do Not Track” initiatives are not recognized by our site.

Please bear in mind that deleting and blocking cookies will have an impact on your user experience as parts of the site may no longer work. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to block cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our site, even if you have previously deleted our cookies.
Turning off cookies will also prevent any web beacons from tracking your user activity on our site. The web beacon will still account for an anonymous visit, but your unique information will not be recorded.

What types of cookies are there and which ones does the site use?

Strictly Necessary cookies – These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

We categorize the following cookies as strictly necessary:

• Registered Visitor Cookie: A unique identifier given to each registered user, used to recognize them through their visit and when they return to the site. (See also Functionality cookies below).

Performance cookies - These cookies collect information about how visitors use a site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how a site works.

We categorize the following as Performance cookies:

• Referrer URL (internal page): Used to store the URL of the previous page visited. Allows us to track how visitors navigate through our site. 
• Referrer URL (external page, including if you click on links on Avanade social media pages): Used to store the URL which refers a visitor to our site so we may understand what URLs are referring visitors to our site. 
• URL history: Used to store the page visited by a user before that user submits a form. Also, used to display recently viewed articles to each visitor. 
• Unregistered Visitor cookie: A unique identifier given to each visitor to allow analysis on how unregistered visitors use our site. 
• Session Management cookies: These cookies allow us to follow the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close their browser window. Our Session Management cookies are created temporarily. Once you close your browser, our Session Management cookies are deleted.

Functionality cookies - These cookies allow a site to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a site may be able to provide you with local information or news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. We may use information collected from our cookies to identify user behavior and to serve content and offers based on your profile. In some cases we pass this information on to others within Avanade for marketing or analysis purposes. In most cases we will not be able to track individuals by name, only if a user is a registered user will we associate the cookie information with a named individual. 

These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They don’t gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the internet outside our site.

We categorize the following as Functionality cookies:

• Recently viewed pages: Stores pages visited by the user on our site and displays them in right hand navigation for easy reference.
• Search history Stores: Searches on our site conducted by the user and displays them for the user in the right hand navigation for easy reference.
• Registered Visitor Cookie: A unique identifier given to each registered user to our site, used to serve them content and offers based on their profiles. Also used for analysis and marketing purposes (See also Strictly Necessary cookies above).

Targeting cookies - These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the site operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a site and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often they will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

At Avanade we do not have third party advertising on our site so we do not use these Targeting cookies. If you click on an Avanade advertisement on a non-Avanade site, a cookie may be used to log which site you are on to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. Avanade currently uses www.DidIt.com to monitor our advertising in this way.

Third party social media sites may log information about you, for example if you click an “Add This” or “Like” button for a social media site while on our site. We do not control such sites or their activities. You may be able to find information about social media sites on the sites themselves. We recommend you read the terms of use and privacy policy of such sites before using them.

This site is administered by Avanade Inc. on behalf of each Avanade local operating legal entity.

If you have any questions now or during your visit, please contact us using our Contact Us form .