Baird Europe Cookies Policy
This cookie notice (“notice”) applies to the use by all Baird entities under Robert W. Baird Group Limited and Robert W. Baird GmbH (collectively “Baird” or “Baird Europe”) and their respective website (“Website”).
The purpose of this notice is to provide you with information on what cookies are and how they work. It also explains what cookies we use, what they do and how you can control what cookies we use when you visit our Website.
What are Cookies?
A "cookie" is a small text file which is stored on the user's computer or mobile device when accessing our Website. Baird uses cookies for Website functionality and to enhance your browsing experience, by tracking and implementing your preferences and settings.
For more information about cookies, please visit the UK Information Commissioner's Office website (https://ico.org.uk) or https://gdpr.eu/cookies/.
How We Use Cookies
We only use cookies in certain areas of this Website and the purposes for which they are used are detailed below. Upon entry to our website, a cookie banner will be displayed asking for your consent to the use of cookies. We use this express consent as the lawful basis for the use of cookies in addition to those that are strictly necessary for basic website functionality.
Our Webiste uses cookies both created and implemented by Baird (first-party) and third-party cookies created by vendors who provide services to us.
Our Website also uses session cookies to temporarily store information about logged in users. These cookies do not collect information from the user's computer, and do not identify the user. Permanent cookies are also used to enhance a user's browsing experience by "remembering" that user on subsequent visits.
You can modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies; however, if you do so this, it may affect your browsing experience and certain functions within the website may not work.
The Cookies We Use
The cookies we use are either strictly necessary or optional. More specifically, cookies and other tracking technologies are used for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information:
| Name | Hostname | Purpose | Cookie Type | Expiry |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | .bairdeurope.com | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | First-party persistent cookie | 365 days |
| OptanonConsent | .bairdeurope.com | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | First-party persistent cookie | 365 days |
| TS01xxxxxxxx | bairdeurope.com | These cookies are set by our web server infrastructure to ensure your web requests are consistently processed by the same server in our infrastructure for the duration of your session. | First-party session cookie | 0 days |
| AWSALB | fs25.formsite.com / Amazon Web Services | This cookie is used to provide load balancing functionality | Third-party persistent cookie | 6 days |
| JSESSIONID | fs25.formsite.com | This cookie is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Third-party session cookie | 0 days |
| AWSALBCORS | fs25.formsite.com / Amazon Web Services | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Third-party persistent cookie | 6 days |
Optional Cookies
We would also like to use cookies to provide optional features, improve our website and support advertising and social media.
We understand that not everyone likes data to be collected about them when it's not strictly necessary, and so we'll ask you to set your preferences when you first visit our website. To make it easier to choose which optional cookies to accept, we have organised these cookies by category. These are set out below. Where relevant, we've also explained which of our trusted partners helps us make use of these optional cookies.
You can opt-out of each optional cookie category (except strictly necessary cookies) by clicking on the “cookie preferences” button, through the use of our cookie settings tool.
Functional Cookies
Allow our Website to remember your choices or preferences, such as information on online forms or previous orders. These cookies enable you to move around our Website and use its features such as accessing secure areas (e.g. content for registered users). These cookies allow us to offer you a personalized experience while using the Website. They are not used to track your browsing activity on other websites. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly
| Name | Hostname | Purpose | Cookie Type | Expiry |
| __cf_bm | vimeo.com | This is a CloudFoundry cookie, used to help manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots, and to protect this site from bad bots. | Third-party persistent cookie | 0 days |
| vuid | vimeo.com | The domain is owned by Vimeo, for which we embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. When you press play Vimeo will drop third party cookies to enable the video to play and to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. | Third-party persistent cookie | 729 days |
Targeting Cookies
Are used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other websites. If you do not allow these cookies, you will still experience advertising but it will be less targeted to you.
| Name | Hostname | Purpose | Cookie Type | Expiry |
| YSC | youtube.com | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Third-party session cookie | 0 days |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Youtube.com | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. | Third-party persistent cookie | 179 days |
| CONSENT | youtube.com | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Third-party persistent cookie | 729 days |
Performance Cookies
Collect information about how visitors use our Websites and helps us with site analysis and improvements.
| Name | Hostname | Purpose | Cookie Type | Expiry |
| _gid | bairdeurope.com | This cookie is used to distinguish unique users. | First-party persistent cookie | 0 days |
| _ga | bairdeurope.com | Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | First-party persistent cookie | 729 days |
| _gclxxxx | bairdeurope.com | Google conversion tracking cookie. It allows us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. | First-party persistent cookie | 89 days |
| _gat_UA- | bairdeurope.com | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | First-party persistent cookie | 0 days |
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, based on the consent of website visitors, to collect and process information about your use of the website including, (but not limited to), the pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you arrive at the site, generic demographic information (not personally identifiable) and links that you click on. This information is then stored by Google Analytics for analysing visitor behaviour to our site.
Google Analytics operates data centers globally, including in the United States, to maximise service speed and reliability. Before data is transferred to any servers in the United States, the data is collected in local servers, where users’ IP addresses are anonymised.
We would like to point out that this website uses Google Analytics only after prior consent has been granted and Baird Europe does not collect or store personally identifiable information, thus cannot use the data to identify you. You can opt out of Google analytics at any time through the use of our cookie settings tool.
You may also disable Google Analytics by using Google’s opt-out browser add on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For more information on how Google uses the data collected via this service, see here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Social Media Cookies
The Website may offer the opportunity to "Like", "Follow" or "Share" site content via social networks. Subject to your consent, these networks almost always use cookies. If you are a member of one or more of the following social networks and do not want social network cookies placed on your system, please update your preferences using the cookie settings tool and we suggest that you refrain from using such sharing tools.
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
- Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/pop/pop-privacy-policy
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy
| Name | Hostname | Purpose | Cookie Type | Expiry |
| ln_or | bairdeurope.com | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | First-party persistent cookie | 0 days |
| _fbp | linkedin.com | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | First-party persistent cookie | 0 days |
| www.facebook.com | This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our website. This cookie is used for remarketing. Facebook remarketing allows us to show Facebook ads to users who have previously visited our website. This cookie is also used to understand how our Facebook ads are performing. Where you are logged into your Facebook account while visiting our website, Facebook may receive information or your activity on our website. | Third-party session cookie | 0 days | |
| lidc | bairdeurope.com | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Third-party persistent cookie | 0 days |
Acceptance of cookies
Your preferences are stored in cookies stored on your browser. If you switch off a category of cookies that you've previously accepted, then for technical reasons those cookies will not be deleted.
To delete cookies from your browser, we recommend that you clear your browser data. If you do this, or change browser, we'll ask for your preferences again when you next visit our website.
You can opt-out of each cookie category (except strictly necessary cookies) by using our cookie settings tool.
Disabling Cookies
If you wish to manage your cookies, you can do one of the following:
- Manage your cookie preferences at any time, through the use of our cookie settings tool;
- Stop using our website and delete any cookies that may have been stored on your computer on your arrival to our site;
- You can also block all cookies or block only third-party cookies, or alternatively, clear all cookies once you have closed your browser;
- You can browse the site using your browser's anonymous usage setting ("Incognito" in Chrome, "InPrivate" in Internet Explorer, "Private Browsing" in Firefox and Safari etc). The help section of your specific browser will aid you in selecting these settings.
If you block or delete any cookies, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit the site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Updates to this Cookies Policy
We may change or update parts of this Cookie Policy in order to maintain our compliance with applicable law and regulation or following an update to our internal practices. We will do this by updating this notice on our Baird Europe Website. You will not necessarily be directly notified of such a change. Therefore, please ensure that you regularly check this Cookies Policy so you are fully aware of any changes or updates.
The changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on this website.
How to get in touch with Baird Europe
We welcome your views about our website and our Cookie Notice. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments, please send an email to EURRegulation@rwbaird.com or send a letter to Head of Compliance & Associate General Counsel, Finsbury Circus House, 15 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 7EB.