Cookie Policy

Every time your Web browser accesses our Website, we automatically receive and store certain information about you, by placing a cookie on your computer.

What are cookies?

Our websites, along with most other major websites, use ‘Cookies’. 'Cookies’ are pieces of information that a website transfers to the cookie file on your computer's hard disk. ‘Cookies’ enable users to navigate around websites and (where appropriate) enable us to tailor the content to fit the needs of visitors who have accessed the site and help us improve the user experience. Without ‘Cookies’ enabled we cannot guarantee that the website and your experience while visiting are as we intended it to be.

Two types of cookies are used on our Website:
1. Session cookies (which remain in the cookie file of your browser only so long as you are accessing the Website) are used:

  • To allow you to carry information from one page of our Website to another without having to re-enter information; and
  • Within login mode, to allow you to access stored information.

2. Persistent cookies (which remain in the cookie file of your browser for a longer period and store some basic information) help us to identify if you have visited our Website previously using the same computer, and if so enables our Website to remember the personal information you provided, keeps track of the number of visits that you make to our Website, where you browse and what you download, even though you may not have logged on.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie

Name

Purpose
Optos General Website ASP.NET_SessionId

This session cookie is essential for the website to operate and is set upon your arrival to the site. This cookie is deleted when you close the browser.

For more information: Microsoft Support: How and why session IDs are resused in ASP.NET
Optos Language Preference epslanguage This cookie is used to set the preferred language for the user. It will keep the user in their preferred country/language specific Optos site for all future visits until the cookie has been deleted by clearing the browser cookies. This is set for regulatory purposes. If a language has not been chosen in the dialog box, and "Set Country" has been clicked, then a cookie will not be set, however the user will be redirected to the Global Site by default.
Optos Customer and Distributor Portals .EPiServerLogin
.ASPXROLES		 These cookies are stored only when a user is logged into the site and are essential for the login form to function properly. These cookies are deleted when you log out of the secured sections of the site.
Optos Billing/Invoicing ASPSESSIONIDSQDACBBT Optos provides billing information for USA and Canada sites. For these sites, session cookies are stored only when a user is logged into the site and are essential for the login form to function properly. These cookies are deleted when you log out of the secured sections of the site.
Optos Academy Online Training (Webex) JSESSIONID
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wbxrecreglastname
wbxrecregname
psntr_ws

The Optos Academy Online training sessions may use Cisco Webex services to display videos which may store cookies for session ids. Information will be collected that are required fields in the Webex forms filled out before viewing a Webex Training Session. These fields may include Firstname, Lastname, and Email address. Webex may also collect browser information to display the correct webex video for your browser.

For more information: Cisco Online Privacy Statement

Google Analytics

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

For more information: Overview of privacy at Google

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

YouTube cookies:
We embed videos from YouTube using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more, please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

Investor Relations cookies:
We embed our Investor Relations information, such as share price information, email alerts, and regulatory news, through the services of Hemscott Group Limited. These pages may set cookies when you are viewing information that contain Hemscott embedded areas on our site. To find out more, please visit Hemscott Privacy Policy page. 

Disabling cookies:
You can set your browser to disable cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.  Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly

If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy please contact us by e-mail at webinfo@optos.com.