Cookie Policy

Our Cookie Policy

Our Cookie Policy

We use cookies to make our websites more user-friendly and to allow you to have a seamless and personalised experience. They allow us to learn from your previous visits and tailor our website to your needs and expectations. Generally, our cookies don’t store sensitive or personally identifiable information. The data collected through these cookies can however be linked back to other information Sage holds on you, where you have a relationship with us or where you have otherwise provided personal information to us. This would always be done in compliance with applicable data protection laws and taking into account your consent and preferences.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which are transferred from our websites, applications or services and stored on your browser. The information stored about cookies can be about you, your preferences, or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to.

There are two types of cookies, the first-party cookies, created by the website you visit and hosted by Sage and third-party cookies, created by other websites.

Cookies may be session cookies (temporary cookies that identify and track users within our websites, applications or services which are deleted when you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service) or persistent cookies (cookies which enable our websites, applications or services to “remember” who you are and to remember your preferences within our websites, applications or services and which will stay on your computer or device after you close your browser or leave your session in the application or service).

We use cookies that are strictly necessary cookies which cannot be deactivated. Where you consent to it, we also use Performance cookies and analytics technologies, Functional cookies, and Targeting or advertising cookies. Please consult the Section 3. “Detailed list of Cookies” to obtain more information on what cookies we use exactly.

2. What other technologies do we use?

By “Cookies” we mean “Cookies and similar technologies”, please note that the technologies listed below might not always be strictly known as “cookies”, we however apply the same consent rules to these technologies, in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Web beacons and tags

We also use cookies and similar software known as web beacons and tags to track where users have visited our website after clicking through from one of our advertisements on another website or in emails and to collect details of any products or services purchased and other key user actions and events. These web beacons and tags collect limited information which may sometimes include information which identifies particular users. It is not possible to refuse the use of web beacons and tags. However, because they are used in conjunction with cookies, you can effectively disable them by setting your browser to restrict or block cookies or by opting out of Performance Cookies through the Cookies Settings link.

IP Address, device tracking and traffic data

We keep a record of traffic data which is logged automatically by our servers, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device information, the website that you visited before ours and the website you visit after leaving our site. This may include using certain masked (unidentifiable) data to track where users switch between different devices when accessing the website. We also collect some site, application and service statistics such as access rates, page hits and page views. We are not able to identify any individual from traffic or device tracking data or site statistics.