Cookies

Introduction

This page sets out the cookie policy of Tata Steel UK Ltd ("we", "us" or "our") and explains how we use cookies on our websites . We may amend our cookie policy at any time and all changes will be made on this page. The changes will take effect once they have been posted on the website. Therefore, you should review these terms on a regular basis.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers, which are transferred to your computer's hard drive or mobile device when you visit the website (with your agreement where required by applicable law). The cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or to another website that recognises that cookie. You can change which cookies you accept via your browser settings.

We use the term 'cookies' to refer to cookies and other similar technologies described above.

How we use cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and does not identify you as an individual.

We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file.

Our website also uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This information helps us analyse our website usage and how web pages are performing, as well as helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

The information that we collect from cookies may be considered to be personal data: for further details about how this information may be used, please see our Privacy Statement.

Cookies and analytics

Different types of cookies are used for different purposes on our website. These are split into four key groups:

Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the proper operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our websites or use a shopping cart. Without these cookies, certain services you may have asked for cannot be provided, and website functionality will be significantly impaired.

Statistical / Performance cookies: They allow us to collect information about how you use our website, for example, to count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it, as well as for error management . This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous. If you choose not to accept these cookies, there may be some loss in site functionality.

Marketing cookies: Used to understand your interests and improve content and advertisement display on websites from both Tata Steel and third parties. For example, they might be used to deliver adverts that are relevant to you, to measure effectiveness of advertising campaigns, or to limit the number of times you see a particular advert.

Third party cookies: Our website may link through to other websites which may also use cookies. Tata Steel pages may also contain social media buttons and/or plugins including but not limited to X(formerly known as Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Google Plus. In addition, if you share a link to a Tata Steel page, the social media site you share it on may set a cookie on your browser. Cookies set by companies other than Tata Steel are third party cookies. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so you’ll need to check third party websites for information on how to manage them.

Google Analytics and Google Remarketing

We use Google Analytics, a website analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics is based on cookies which allow an analysis of your use of our website collecting anonymous data such as where you have come from, which pages you visit, and how long you spend on our website. This data is then stored by Google in order to create reports.

The remarketing service from Google is used to understand your particular interest in visiting our website. Knowing your interest we are able to optimize content on our website and display customized advertisements on third party websites. Data is stored by Google in order to match your interest with advertisement space on third party websites.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Websites, compiling reports on Websites’ activity for us and providing other services relating to Websites’ activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By adjusting your browser settings you can prevent storage of such cookies. You may also prevent the recording of data generated by the cookie by Google and to the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin and selecting your country.

The Google website contains further information about analytics and a copy of Google's privacy policy pages.

Your settings

You can further control which cookies you accept via your browser settings, which allow you to block the setting of some or all cookies. Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org.

Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our Websites.

For more information about how to control the use of third party cookies used for online behavioural advertising, please see Your online choices.

For further information on managing third party cookies from social media sites we’ve supplied a link to the third party below. Please note we can’t be responsible for content on third party websites.

Contacts

If you have any questions, comments or complaints about how we collect, use or retain cookies, please contact us. You can get in touch by post, email, telephone, or by completing our online contact form.

Write to us

Tata Steel UK Limited
18 Grosvenor Place
London, SW1X 7HS
United Kingdom

Email us dataprivacy@tatasteeleurope.com