Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy for the Institute for Process Excellence (IpX)

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of not strictly necessary cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this or check out this helpful article from How-To-Geek). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is generally recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Session related cookie
  All visitors will have a session cookie set that is simply a string of characters to uniquely identify your browsing session with the site (e.g. Session ID: X76Fhy8887). This unique identifier is there to keep track of your login status and retain certain information from page to page when forms are filled out.
• Account related cookies
• If you create an account with us then we will use the above session cookie that contains a unique identifier for the management of the signup process and general administration. This identifier is used in the setting of information that has to do with your specific browsing session. This cookie will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases they may remain afterward to remember your site preferences when logged out.
• Login related cookies
• We use the same session cookie mentioned above when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience.
• These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
• For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics support page.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and, as was previously mentioned, if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information then please contact us directly.