Cookie Notice
This is the cookie notice of Apax Partners LP and its
affiliates for our website
www.apax.us.com. We want to ensure that you enjoy browsing our
websites. In order to enhance your experience, we place cookies
onto your computer. Cookies are text files containing small amounts
of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a
website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on
each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that
cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to
recognise a user's device and target the content displayed to the
user's interests.
By using our websites you agree that, unless you have
set your device's browser to reject them, we can place the types of
cookies set out below on your device and use that data in
accordance with this policy.
You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org
and www.youronlinechoices.eu,
and for a video about cookies visit: www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies/.
Do we use cookies on our websites and, if so,
why?
Yes. By using our websites you agree
that, unless you have set your device's browser to reject them, we
can place the types of cookies set out in the table below on your
device, and use that data in accordance with this
policy.
We use cookies (including HTTP,
HTML5 and Flash cookies) and similar technologies (such as web
beacons and JavaScript) to: (i) customize and improve the users'
experience of our websites; (ii) deliver content tailored to the
users' interests and the manner in which they browse our websites;
and (iii) manage our websites and other aspects of our
business.
What types of cookies are used and
what choices do you have?
Below is a list of the cookies that
we would like to use on our websites.
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Cookie
Type
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Description
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Strictly Necessary
Cookies
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These cookies are necessary for the
websites to work, and enable you to move around the websites and
use the services and features. Disabling these cookies will
encumber performance and may make these services and features
unavailable. Strictly Necessary Cookies are used to collect session
ID and authentication data. They are "session" cookies, which
expire when you close your browser session. For example,
ASP.NET_SessionID is a cookie that contains the
user session identifier which expires at the end of every
session.
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Functional Cookies
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Functional Cookies allow the
websites to help maintain your session and remember the choices you
made in order to provide functionality for your benefit. Functional
Cookies are used to collect information about your language
preferences and other preferences indicated during your visit. For
example, functional "session" cookies allow the websites to
remember settings specific to you (such as, your country selection)
which ultimately improves your web experience. Functional Cookies
also include persistent cookies which are used to remember your
preferences when you subsequently visit. Functional "persistent"
cookies expire after 7 days.
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Analytic Cookies
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Analytic Cookies are used to gather
statistics about the use of the websites in order to improve the
performance and design of our services. For these purposes,
Analytic Cookies collect information about your device type,
operating system type, browser type, domain, other system settings,
IP address, referring URLs, information on actions taken on the
websites and the dates and times of your visits, as well as the
country and time zone in which your device is located. These
cookies are provided by our third-party analytics tool provider
(Google Analytics) and the information obtained through these
cookies will be disclosed to, or collected directly by, this
third-party service provider. For more information about Google
Analytic's cookie and information practices (including the types of
cookies used and their expiration date), please visit the following
link Google
Analytics
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Specific cookies we
use
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Cookie
Name
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Duration
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Domain
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Description
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__umbraco_printbasket
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1 month
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apax.com
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Stores the document IDs added to
the print basket.
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_ga
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2 years
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apax.com
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Google Analytics - Used to
distinguish users
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_gat
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1 minute
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apax.com
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Google Analytics - Used to throttle
request rates to maintain website performance
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_gid
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24 hours
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apax.com
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Google Analytics - Used to
distinguish users
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Changing your cookie
preferences
The "Help" menu in the toolbar of
most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser's cookie
settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you
receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Below
is some helpful guidance about how to make these
changes.
Internet
Explorer
If you are using Microsoft Internet
Explorer and you wish to block our website cookies, you can perform
the following actions:
1. On your browser tools menu,
select 'Internet Options'
2. Click on the 'Privacy' tab and
then on the 'Sites' button
3. Type into the 'Address of
website' field:
4. www.apax.us.com
5. Click on the 'Block'
button
6. Click on the OK button
Other
browsers
Guidance on how to block website
cookies on other browserscan be found below:
More detailed information on disabling cookies can be found at
www.allaboutcookies.org.
However, please note that if you use your browser settings to block
all cookies (including, for example, Strictly Necessary Cookies)
you may not be able to access all or parts of our websites.