This Cookie Policy explains how Royal Research Group and service providers may use cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with the Royal Research Group website.
This Policy should be read together with the Royal Research Group Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how personal information is collected, used, disclosed, retained, and protected.
What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
Cookies are small data files that websites may store on or access from a browser or device. Cookies can support functions such as maintaining sessions, remembering preferences, understanding website performance, and supporting security.
The website may also use technologies that perform similar functions, including pixels, tags, local storage, or other browser- and device-based technologies.
References to “cookies” in this Policy include cookies and similar technologies where appropriate.
Cookie Categories
Depending on the website features, service providers, consent choices, and applicable law, cookies used through the Royal Research Group website may fall into categories such as:
Strictly Necessary Cookies.
Functional Cookies.
Analytics and Performance Cookies.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies.
The specific cookies and technologies in use may change as website functionality and service providers change.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support functions required for the website or requested services to operate. These may include security, fraud prevention, session management, shopping-cart functionality, checkout functionality, account authentication, network management, and privacy-preference storage.
Because these technologies may be necessary to provide requested website functionality, they may operate without optional consent where permitted by applicable law.
Disabling strictly necessary technologies through browser or device settings may cause portions of the website to function incorrectly or become unavailable.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may allow the website to remember selections or preferences and provide enhanced functionality.
Depending on the website configuration, these technologies may support preferences such as interface settings, remembered selections, or other user-requested features.
Where required by applicable law, functional cookies that are not strictly necessary will be used according to applicable consent choices.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and performance technologies may help Royal Research Group understand how visitors interact with the website, which pages or features are used, how the website performs, and where technical or usability improvements may be appropriate.
Information collected through these technologies may include page views, interaction information, browser or device information, approximate location derived from IP address, referral information, performance information, and similar usage data.
Where required by applicable law, non-essential analytics and performance technologies will be used according to applicable consent choices.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Advertising and marketing technologies may be used, where implemented and permitted, to measure marketing performance, understand campaign interactions, limit repeated advertising, or support advertising activities.
Depending on the technology and applicable law, these activities may be considered targeted advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising, “sale,” or “sharing” of personal information even when no money is exchanged.
Where applicable, users may have rights to opt out of certain advertising, sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising activities.
This section does not mean that every advertising or marketing technology described is necessarily active on the website at all times.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be set directly through the Royal Research Group website, while others may be set or accessed by service providers that support website functionality, payments, e-commerce, analytics, security, communications, advertising, or other services.
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and practices. Royal Research Group does not control independent third parties’ separate privacy practices.
Cookie Duration
Cookies may be session-based or persistent.
Session cookies generally expire when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies may remain on a browser or device for a defined period or until removed, depending on the cookie, service provider, browser settings, or device settings.
Royal Research Group does not assign a single retention period to all cookies because duration varies according to the technology and purpose involved.
Cookie Consent and Preferences
Where required by applicable law, Royal Research Group provides choices regarding non-essential cookies through available cookie-consent or preference controls.
You may be able to accept, reject, or manage categories of non-essential cookies through those controls. Strictly necessary cookies may remain active where they are required to provide requested website functionality or maintain security.
Changing a preference generally affects future cookie activity and may not automatically remove cookies already stored on a browser or device.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser or Device
Most browsers and devices provide settings that allow users to review, block, limit, or delete cookies or similar stored information.
Browser- or device-level restrictions may affect website functionality, including account sessions, shopping-cart functions, checkout, remembered preferences, or other features.
Instructions for managing these settings vary by browser and device and should be reviewed through the applicable browser or device provider.
Privacy Signals
Some browsers and devices support privacy preference signals, including Global Privacy Control or similar mechanisms.
Royal Research Group will process legally recognized browser-based opt-out preference signals where required by applicable law and where the website systems are capable of receiving the applicable signal.
Treatment of other “Do Not Track” or similar signals may vary as technical standards and legal requirements evolve.
Third-Party Services
Cookies and similar technologies may be associated with third-party services used to support website hosting, e-commerce, payment processing, security, analytics, communications, advertising, or other website functions.
The specific providers and technologies may change over time. Third parties may maintain their own privacy policies, cookie notices, or preference mechanisms that govern their independent processing activities.
Royal Research Group does not control cookies or similar technologies placed directly by independent third parties outside the Royal Research Group website.
Updates to Cookie Technologies
The cookies, technologies, providers, purposes, and durations associated with the website may change as website functionality, integrations, and business operations evolve.
Where a cookie-consent platform or preference interface provides a current cookie inventory, that interface may provide more specific technical information about cookies detected or configured on the website.
Royal Research Group may update this Policy when material changes to cookie practices or applicable requirements occur.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
Royal Research Group may revise this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in website functionality, technologies, service providers, consent practices, legal requirements, or related policies.
Revisions become effective when posted with an updated effective date unless otherwise stated. Where required by applicable law, additional notice or consent may be provided for material changes.
The Privacy Policy provides additional information about Royal Research Group’s broader personal-information practices. The Terms of Service govern use of the website and other terms applicable to transactions and services.
Contact
Questions about this Cookie Policy or available cookie preferences should be submitted through Royal Research Group’s Contact page.
