1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how AMRADNET UK ("we", "us", and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website at https://amradnet.co.uk/ ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use your personal information.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
- Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, AMRADNET UK) are called "first-party cookies".
- Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., interactive content, analytics, and secure portals). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
3. Why Do We Use Cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for analytics, performance, and other operational purposes.
4. Types of Cookies We Use
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described below:
A. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site (e.g., teleradiology portals or client login areas). Under UK law, we do not require your consent to place these cookies, as the website cannot function properly without them.
- Purpose: Session management, security, network routing, and saving your cookie consent preferences.
- Lifespan: Usually session-based (deleted when you close your browser) or up to 12 months for consent preferences.
B. Analytical and Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use our Website, such as which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you directly; it is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymised.
- Purpose: To improve website functions, count visitors, and see how visitors move around the website to improve the user experience (e.g., using Google Analytics).
- Consent: We will only place these cookies on your device if you give us your explicit consent via our cookie banner.
C. Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
- Purpose: Remembering region, language choices, or customising the layout of secure diagnostic portals.
- Consent: We will only place these cookies on your device if you give us your explicit consent.
D. Targeting and Advertising Cookies
As a specialised healthcare service provider, AMRADNET UK generally limits the use of targeting or advertising cookies. However, where implemented, these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
- Consent: We will only place these cookies on your device if you give us your explicit consent.
5. Other Tracking Technologies
Web Beacons / Pixels
Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, and to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
6. How Can I Control Cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Banner that appears when you first visit our Website.
You can also change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" or "Manage Cookies" link, which should be located in the footer of our Website.
Browser Controls: In addition, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies via your browser, you may still use our Website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website (particularly secure healthcare portals) may be severely restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
7. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
8. Where Can I Get Further Information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact our Data Protection team at: info@amradnet.co.uk.