A cookie is a piece of text asking permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. If you agree, then your browser adds the text in a small file. The purpose of a cookie is to help us analyse Web traffic or let us know when you visit a particular site.
Cookies allow a Web application to respond to you as an individual. By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the web application can tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes. For example, when you visit an electronic store, a cookie makes it easy to shop by allowing you to drop things into a shopping cart; the cart itself is not the cookie, the cookie is placed on your hard drive and keeps track of your cart versus others’ in use at the same time.
Webedge uses traffic log cookies to identify what pages are being used and which ones aren’t. This helps us aggregate and analyse data about web page traffic and make improvements to webedge.com.au to better meet our visitor, contact and client needs. In this case, Webedge uses this information only for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. That is the case of many of our support and information-sharing pages and forums. Denial of a traffic log cookie should not prevent you from using one of these sites.
A few webedge.com.au websites use temporary cookies as part of the customer web navigation experience, tracking unique IDs for that particular Website session only.
Examples are newsletter registration sites. This cookie, by itself, only tells us that a previous webedge.com.au visitor, contact or client has returned. If you deny the cookie, you can still use the site anonymously. At webedge.com.au, you will receive a persistent cookie. Clients (and users of Webedge’s online client system) can browse some areas of webedge.com.au with cookies turned off, but you can only browse the secure area of the site if you accept the cookie.
Overall, cookies help us give you a better website to use, by letting us monitor what’s working and what isn’t through site traffic analysis. Webedge wants to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to share with us. This practice is strictly enforced. We know that a lot of people have concerns about cookies, but in talking with many of our visitors, contacts and clients, we believe that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. We value the relationships we have with our visitors, users and clients, so we respect these concerns. Webedge works to continuously improve the webedge.com.au web experience and personal data privacy policy and practices.
You may set your web browser (Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, etc.) to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely. You can delete the files that contain cookies; those files are stored as part of your Internet browser.