Mindray Cookies Policy
Information about cookies
Mindray aims to make your online experience and interaction with our websites as informative, relevant and supportive as possible. One way of achieving this is to use cookies or similar techniques, which store information about your visit to our site on your computer. We feel that it is very important that you know what cookies our website uses and for what purposes. This will help protect your privacy, while ensuring our website's user-friendliness as much as possible. Below you can read more about the cookies used by and via our website and the purposes for which they are used. This is a statement about privacy and our use of cookies, not a contract or agreement.
1. What are cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer's hard disk when you visit certain websites. At Mindray we may use similar techniques, such as pixels, web beacons etc. For consistency's sake, all these techniques combined will be named 'cookies'.
2. Why are these cookies used
Cookies may be used for many different purposes. For example, cookies can be used to show that you have visited our website before and to identify which parts of the site you might be most interested in. Cookies can also improve your online experience by storing your preferences during your visit to our website.
3. Cookies from third parties
Third parties (external to Mindray) may also store cookies on your computer during your visit to Mindray websites. These indirect cookies are similar to direct cookies but come from a different domain (non-Mindray) to the one you are visiting.
4. Further information about Mindray' use of cookies
Do Not Track Signals
Mindray takes privacy and security very seriously, and strives to put our website users first in all aspects of our business. Mindray utilises cookies to help you to get the most out of the Mindray websites.
Please be aware that Mindray currently does not make use of a technical solution that would enable us to respond to your browser's 'Do Not Track' signals. In order to manage your cookie preferences, however, you may alter the cookie settings in your browser settings at any time. You may accept all, or certain, cookies. If you do disable our cookies in your browser settings, you may find that certain sections of our website(s) will not work.
You can find further information on how to alter your cookie settings for the browser that you use from the following list:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/technologies/managing/
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies#w_cookie-settings
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html#security
On the Mindray pages, Flash cookies may also be used. Flash cookies may be removed
by managing your Flash Player settings. Depending on the version of Internet Explorer
(or other browser) and media player you use, you may be able to manage Flash cookies
with your browser. You may manage Flash Cookies by visiting
Adobe's website. Please be aware that restricting the use of Flash Cookies
may affect the features available to you.
Further information about the type of cookies used on Mindray sites
Cookies that ensure that the website functions properly
These cookies are necessary to make it possible to surf the Mindray website(s) and use the website's functions, such as accessing protected areas of the website.
- Remembering information that you fill in on the various pages when downloading brochures so that you don’t have to fill in all your details repeatedly
- Passing on information from one page to the next, for instance if a long survey is being filled in or if you need to fill in a large number of details
- Storing preferences such as language, location, the number of search results to be displayed etc.
- Storing settings for optimal video display, such as buffer size and your screen’s resolution details
- Reading your browser settings so that we can display our website optimally on your screen
- Locating misuse of our website and services, for example by recording several consecutive failed log-in attempts
- Loading the website evenly so that it remains accessible
- Making it possible to place a reaction on our website
These cookies gather information about the surfing behaviour of visitors to our websites, such as which pages are visited often and whether visitors receive error messages. By doing this we are able to make the structure, navigation and content of the website as user-friendly as possible for you. We do not link the statistics and other reports to people. We use cookies for:
- Keeping track of the number of visitors to our web pages
- Keeping track of the length of time that each visitor spends on our web pages
- Determining the order in which a visitor visits the various pages on our website
- Assessing which parts of our site need to be improved
- Optimising the website
Concluding remarks
We may amend this Cookie Notice from time to time, for example, because our website
or the rules relating to cookies change. We reserve the right to amend the content
of the Cookie Notice and the cookies included in the lists at any time and without
notice. The new Cookie Notice will be effective upon posting. If you do not agree
to the revised notice, you should alter your preferences, or consider stopping using
the Mindray pages. By continuing to access or make use of our services after the
changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Cookie Notice. You
can consult this web page for the latest version.
If you have any further questions and/or comments, please contact
privacy.uk@mindray.com or surf to our contact page.