Why we use cookies on our website
We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
The cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below. All of the cookies listed below work on an anonymous basis and carry no information about an individual’s identity.
Cookie |
Purpose |
Analytics cookies |
Used to track visits to our own websites to aggregate a range of metrics and measurements. |
Location cookies |
Used for mapping or placing an individual within a geographic environment to provide location-based information or services. |
Re-targeting cookies |
Used to serve up targeted advertisements on subsequent website visits to third party websites. |
Behavioural/targeting cookies |
Used when a user’s visits to a website are tracked across a variety of websites to accumulate an understanding of their preferences and infer traits. |
Post-impression cookies |
Used where an Inmarsat advertisement is viewed on a third-party website and then the same visitor later visits our website. |
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site and/or the functionality of some parts of our website may be affected. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 30 days.