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Cookie Policy

Our Cookie Policy

Bluescope Technologies (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies on our website. By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy.

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This cookie policy sets out:

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other devices when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies allow a website to recognise a user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How do we use cookies?

Bluescope Technologies uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

  • Keeping you signed in
  • Understanding how you use our website
  • Enhancing site functionality and performance
  • Pixel tags are used to deliver, secure, and understand products, services, and ads, on and off our site.

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

  • Functionality – Bluescope Technologies uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

  • Advertising – Bluescope Technologies uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Bluescope Technologies sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

    We use third party advertisements to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies when they advertise on our site, which also send these advertisers (such as Google, through the Google AdSense program) information including the browser you used to visit our site. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (e.g. showing Dublin real estate to someone in Dublin) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (e.g. showing electronic goods ads to someone who frequently visits electronics sites).

  • Our site utilises the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc. This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to our site by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. The collected data remains anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy found under www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.

How to manage cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set your browser to not accept cookies, and the above website (allaboutcookies.org) tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, please be aware that if you choose to refuse cookies, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.

Here are some links to help you manage cookies in popular browsers:

 

Changes to our cookie policy

Bluescope Technologies keeps its cookie policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This cookie policy was last updated on 11th June 2024.

 

For more information, please see our Privacy Policy.