USE OF COOKIES

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

This policy describes how we, at Medical Wizardry (and our affiliates, associated offices) may use cookies and similar technologies on our website(s) and through our online services and how to contact us with any questions concerning this Policy. 

By consenting to this “Cookie Policy”, you agree that we can distinguish you from other users of our website for the purposes set out below. This helps us to provide you with good user experience, tailored content and it also allows us to continually improve our website. For example, we can recognise and remember important information that will make it more comfortable for you to browse our website or use our apps such as preferred settings.
This Policy applies to any and all of Medical Wizardry’s websites, apps or services that are linked to this policy or incorporates it by reference.
WHAT ARE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device or mobile device. Cookies perform various tasks (including remembering your preferences) and are an important part of improving your experience of our website. 
There are three main types of cookies:
Session cookies: specific to a particular visit and limited to sending session identifiers (random numbers generated by the server) so you don’t have to re-enter information when you navigate to a new page or check out.  Session cookies are not permanently stored on your device and are deleted when the browser closes;
  • Persistent cookies: record information about your preferences and are stored in your browser cache or mobile device; and 
  • Third party cookies: placed by someone other than us which may gather data across multiple websites or sessions.
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
We use the following cookies:
  • Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and the use of its features. The information collected relates to the operation of our website (e.g. website scripting language and security tokens) and enables us to provide you with the service you have requested.
  • Analytical / performance cookies: These cookies collect information on how users use our website, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages and how you arrived at our website. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our website. These cookies are sometimes placed by third party providers of web traffic and analysis services. We use Google Analytics. For information on how Google processes and collects your information and how you can opt out, please see the table below providing for a Google Analytics opt-out link.
  • Functionality cookies: These cookies are used to remember the choices you have made, for example the country you visit our website from, your language and any changes you have made to text size and other parts of the web pages that you can customise to improve your user experience and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. 
  • Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the information (including marketing information) displayed on it more relevant to your interests and to measure the effectiveness of and marketing or information initiatives. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. They remember the other websites you visit and this information is shared with third party organizations.
Other technologies
In addition to cookies, we use some other similar technologies as follows:
  • Web Beacons: small graphic images included on our website or emails or those of third parties to provide analytics information.
  • Local shared objects: these are sometimes called flash cookies and can be stored on your browser. They are used to maintain preferences and usage records.

Cookies we use
Name of Cookie
Laravel_session, XSRF-TOKEN
Why we use it
Enabling basic website functionalities and services to the websites, track the request data source, and requesting user. The cookies were encrypted as per Laravel Standard, and no personal user information are stored.
 
These cookies are essential for our functionality of the website and in particular they allow the following:
  • Speed up your searches;
  • Recognize you when you return to our site;
Expiration
2 Hours
 
Third party cookies
 
Name of Cookie
Google Analytics cookie(s)
Why we use it
Estimate our website traffic which allows us to verify whether we meet limits set in our licenses and made an informed business decision on the future use of our services providers.Google Analytics uses to personally identifiable information and does not access to IP addresses.Google will not have access to your IP address by visiting our site.
Third party policies/user control
 
Name of Cookie
LinkedIn Cookie(s)
Why we use it
These get added to pages that have slide share content. They are used for Authentication, Security, Preferences, Advertising, Performance, Analytics and Research
Third party policies/user control
You acknowledge that where we allow third parties to drop cookies, we have no control over those cookies, or the data generated.  Please refer to the third party’s privacy policy for information on what information they collect and how they use it.  These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Additionally, when visitors request pages from our websites, servers may log the visitor’s Internet Protocol address (“IP address”). Your IP address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of your query, enable us to better understand and improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of our websites for purposes of system administration, to infer a visitor’s geographic location, to track the use of our websites, and to identify a visitor when it is necessary to enforce compliance with our policies.
HOW TO BLOCK COOKIES?
Most internet browsers are set up by default to accept cookies.  However, if you want to refuse or delete them (or similar technologies) please refer to the help and support area on your browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies (for example: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari). Keep in mind that each browser has a different procedure for managing and configuring cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. To learn about more disabling third party Cookies, we invite you to consult the websites and Cookie policies of these third parties (links provided above), or to make use of your browser’s cookie management tools.
Here’s how you manage cookies in the various major browsers:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
You can find more information about Cookies (including how to disable them) at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE POLICY
This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time.
If we change anything important about this Cookie Policy, we will notify you through a pop-up on the website for a reasonable length of time prior to and following the change. You may review the Cookie Policy by visiting the website and clicking on the “Cookie Policy” link.
Contact:
In case of any queries, please contact us at support@medicalwizardry.com.
The Cookies Policy is last updated on December 08, 2020.