Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how CGO Media uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website at cgomedia.com.
It explains what cookies and related technologies are, why they may be used, when consent may be required, how you can manage your preferences and how to contact us if you have questions.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information more generally.
Last updated: 23 August 2026
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that websites can place on a computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when a person visits a website.
Cookies can perform a wide range of functions. They may help a website operate correctly, maintain security, remember preferences, understand how visitors interact with pages or support analytics and advertising.
Some cookies exist only for the duration of a browsing session, while others remain on a device for a defined period unless they are deleted earlier.
Cookies do not represent the only technology capable of storing or accessing information on a device.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
UK rules concerning cookies apply more broadly to technologies that store information on a user’s device or access information already stored there.
Depending on the functionality used on the CGO Media website, these technologies may include:
- Browser cookies.
- Tracking pixels.
- Scripts and tags.
- Local browser storage.
- Session storage.
- Link decoration or navigational tracking.
- Embedded third-party technologies.
- Other technologies that store or access information on a user’s device.
For simplicity, this policy sometimes uses the term cookies to refer collectively to cookies and comparable storage and access technologies.
3. UK Cookie and Privacy Rules
CGO Media aims to use cookies and similar technologies in accordance with applicable UK privacy and electronic communications requirements.
The principal rules relating to the storage of information on, or access to information from, a user’s device are contained in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, as amended (PECR).
Changes introduced through the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 amended parts of the UK framework governing storage and access technologies.
Where information collected through cookies or similar technologies constitutes personal data, relevant provisions of UK data protection law may also apply.
Our approach: where consent is legally required for a particular cookie or technology, we aim not to activate it until the required consent has been obtained.
4. Why CGO Media Uses Cookies
Cookies and similar technologies may be used to support the operation, security, measurement and improvement of the CGO Media website.
Depending on the technologies active at the time of your visit, purposes may include:
- Operating essential website functions.
- Maintaining website security.
- Supporting page navigation.
- Managing sessions.
- Processing website forms.
- Remembering settings or preferences.
- Understanding how visitors use the website.
- Measuring website traffic and performance.
- Identifying technical problems.
- Improving website architecture and content.
- Measuring marketing activity.
- Supporting advertising or remarketing where these activities are enabled.
- Supporting embedded third-party functionality.
5. Categories of Cookies
The technologies used by the website can generally be grouped according to their purpose.
Essential Cookies
These support functionality necessary for the website or a service requested by the user. They may be involved in security, navigation, sessions, consent preferences, forms or other essential website operations.
Analytics and Measurement
These technologies can help us understand how the website is used, which pages are visited, how visitors arrive at the site and how website performance can be improved.
Functionality Cookies
These may enable enhanced website functionality or remember choices and preferences that improve the experience of returning visitors.
Marketing and Advertising
These technologies may support advertising, campaign measurement, audience analysis or remarketing. Where consent is required, they should remain inactive until that consent has been provided.
Embedded Content
Third-party content such as videos, maps, social-media features or other external functionality may involve cookies or comparable technologies supplied by the third party.
Consent and Preference Storage
Some technology may be used to record the cookie choices a visitor has made so that those preferences can be respected on future visits.
6. Cookie Consent
When you first visit CGO Media, you may be presented with a cookie consent interface that allows you to make choices about non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
Where consent is required, we aim for the consent mechanism to allow visitors to:
- Accept relevant non-essential technologies.
- Reject relevant non-essential technologies.
- Make more detailed choices by purpose where available.
- Understand the main purposes for which technologies are used.
- Change or withdraw their choices later.
Continuing to browse the website by itself is not treated as consent where active consent is legally required.
Similarly, we do not intend to rely on pre-selected options as evidence of valid consent for non-exempt technologies.
7. When Consent May Not Be Required
PECR contains limited exceptions that can allow certain storage and access technologies to be used without obtaining consent first.
Whether an exception applies depends on the purpose of the technology and the circumstances in which it is used.
Examples can include technologies genuinely required to:
- Transmit communications over an electronic communications network.
- Provide functionality or a digital service specifically requested by a user.
- Maintain certain security functions.
- Record specific privacy or consent preferences.
- Support certain limited purposes that fall within an applicable statutory exception.
An exception is purpose-specific. The fact that a technology performs one exempt function does not automatically mean every other purpose for which it is used is exempt.
Where an applicable exception does not cover the purpose, we aim to obtain consent before using the relevant technology.
8. Analytics and Website Measurement
CGO Media may use website analytics and measurement tools to understand how visitors interact with the website.
Analytics information can help us assess matters such as:
- Website traffic.
- Popular pages.
- Traffic sources.
- Navigation patterns.
- Device and browser types.
- Website performance.
- Technical errors.
- Content effectiveness.
The legal treatment of a particular analytics technology can depend on its configuration, its purpose, the information collected and whether an applicable exception is available.
Where consent is required for the analytics technologies we use, those technologies should be controlled through our consent mechanism.
9. Marketing and Advertising Technologies
CGO Media may use or introduce technologies that help measure marketing activity, understand campaign performance or support advertising and remarketing.
Advertising technologies can potentially be used to recognise devices, understand interactions with advertisements or websites, build audiences or deliver more relevant advertising.
Where technologies are used for online advertising, tracking, profiling or similar non-exempt purposes requiring consent, they should not be activated until the appropriate consent has been provided.
Visitors should be able to refuse these technologies without being prevented from accessing the normal informational content of the CGO Media website.
10. Third-Party Technologies
Some website functions may rely on services provided by third parties.
These can potentially include providers of:
- Website analytics.
- Advertising and campaign measurement.
- Video hosting.
- Maps.
- Forms.
- Security services.
- Content delivery.
- Social-media functionality.
- Customer relationship or marketing technology.
A third-party service may place or access its own cookies or other technologies when the relevant service is activated.
Where third-party technology requires consent, we aim to ensure that it is controlled through the website’s consent mechanism.
Third parties may process information according to their own privacy policies and legal responsibilities.
11. Cookies and Technologies Used by CGO Media
The precise technologies used on CGO Media can change as website functionality, analytics systems, plugins and external services are updated.
The categories below describe the types of technologies that may operate on the website.
| Category | Typical Purpose | Consent | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | Security, navigation, sessions, consent preferences, forms and core website functionality. | May not require consent where an applicable PECR exemption applies. | Session-based or limited persistent period, depending on purpose. |
| Analytics | Measuring website usage, traffic, performance and visitor behaviour. | Depends on the technology, configuration and whether an applicable exemption applies. | Varies by technology and configuration. |
| Functionality | Remembering preferences and providing enhanced website functionality. | Depends on the purpose and whether an applicable exemption applies. | Session-based or persistent. |
| Marketing | Advertising, audience measurement, remarketing and campaign attribution. | Consent is normally required for non-exempt advertising and tracking purposes. | Varies by provider and technology. |
| Third-Party Content | Videos, maps, social content and externally supplied website functionality. | Depends on the technology, purpose and whether cookies or similar technologies are used. | Determined by the relevant provider. |
12. Session and Persistent Cookies
Cookies can also be classified according to how long they remain on a device.
Session Cookies
Session cookies normally exist only during a browsing session and are generally removed when the browser session ends.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on a device for a specified period or until they are manually deleted.
The appropriate lifetime of a cookie should relate to the purpose for which it is required. We aim to avoid retaining technologies for longer than is reasonably necessary for their intended purpose.
13. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Where a cookie consent tool is available on CGO Media, you can use it to control the non-essential categories available through that tool.
You can normally choose to:
- Accept relevant non-essential technologies.
- Reject them.
- Select individual categories.
- Change your preferences later.
- Withdraw consent previously given.
Where consent has been withdrawn, we aim to stop the relevant consent-dependent technologies from being used going forward.
Some essential technologies may continue to operate where they are necessary for website functionality or another applicable legal exception permits their use.
14. Withdrawing Consent
You can withdraw consent for consent-dependent cookies at any time through the cookie settings or consent controls provided on the website, where available.
Withdrawing consent should be as straightforward as providing it.
Changing your preference does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred while valid consent was in place, but consent-dependent processing should cease once the withdrawal takes effect.
15. Browser Cookie Controls
Most modern browsers allow users to view, delete or restrict cookies.
Browser settings may allow you to:
- View cookies stored on your device.
- Delete individual cookies.
- Delete all cookies.
- Block cookies from particular websites.
- Restrict third-party cookies.
- Clear browsing data when the browser closes.
The exact controls vary between browsers and devices.
Blocking all cookies can affect website functionality. Certain forms, security functions or preferences may not operate correctly where essential technologies are disabled or deleted.
16. Browser Privacy and Tracking Signals
Browsers, operating systems and privacy tools increasingly provide technologies that allow users to express privacy or tracking preferences.
The availability, technical meaning and legal treatment of these signals can vary between platforms and technologies.
CGO Media will continue to review relevant developments and recognised regulatory guidance as browser-based privacy controls evolve.
17. Cookies and Personal Data
Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of information that constitutes personal data.
This could potentially include identifiers, IP-related information, device information, usage information or other information associated with an identifiable individual.
Where personal data is processed, additional requirements under applicable data protection law may apply.
More information about how CGO Media handles personal information is available in our Privacy Policy.
18. Cookie Auditing and Governance
Website technologies change over time as plugins, analytics platforms, marketing systems, hosting services and third-party integrations are added, removed or updated.
CGO Media therefore aims to review its use of cookies and other storage and access technologies periodically.
This process can include:
- Identifying cookies and comparable technologies operating on the website.
- Identifying their providers.
- Confirming their purpose.
- Reviewing their duration.
- Determining whether they process personal data.
- Determining whether an applicable PECR exception applies.
- Checking whether consent is required.
- Checking that technologies requiring consent remain inactive before consent.
- Reviewing third-party technologies.
- Reviewing the website’s consent mechanism.
- Removing unnecessary or obsolete technologies.
- Updating this policy when material changes occur.
Policy review date: 23 August 2026.
19. Changes to This Cookie Policy
CGO Media may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
Updates may be required because of:
- Changes to website functionality.
- New or discontinued cookies.
- Changes to analytics or advertising services.
- Changes to third-party providers.
- Changes to consent-management technology.
- Changes in legislation.
- Changes in regulatory guidance.
Material updates will be reflected on this page and the date above will be updated accordingly.
20. Questions About Cookies
If you have a question about the cookies or similar technologies used by CGO Media, our privacy practices or your cookie preferences, please contact us.
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