This Cookies Policy explains how GPI Companies (“GPI Companies,” “GPI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit or interact with our website at www.gpicompanies.com and any related subdomains or microsites (collectively, the “Site”). It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and the choices available to you regarding our use of them.
This Cookies Policy is part of, and should be read together with, our Privacy Policy and our Terms & Conditions. Together, these documents govern your use of the Site and our collection and use of information about you. By continuing to browse or use the Site, you are agreeing to the placement of cookies as described in this policy, subject to any preferences you set through our cookie consent tools or your browser settings.
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or other device when you visit it. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser and to store certain information about your visit, such as your preferences, settings, or actions taken while browsing.
In addition to browser cookies, we and our service providers may use related technologies, including:
- Web beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs), which are small graphic images used to monitor the movement of visitors on a website or in an email.
- Local storage technologies, such as HTML5 local storage and session storage, which allow websites and applications to store data locally on your device.
- Software development kits (SDKs) and similar tracking mechanisms that may be used in connection with third-party embeds, forms, and analytics tools.
For simplicity, this policy refers to all of these technologies collectively as “cookies.”
How We Use Cookies
GPI Companies uses cookies for a variety of purposes connected with operating and improving the Site, including to:
- Enable the Site’s core functionality, such as page navigation, form submission, and access to secure areas.
- Understand how visitors interact with our Site so that we can improve its design, structure, and content.
- Remember choices you have made, such as cookie preferences, so that we do not need to ask you again on each visit.
- Measure the effectiveness of our communications, including our project announcements, news and insights content, and outreach efforts.
- Support the display of embedded content, such as maps, videos, or project renderings hosted by third-party providers.
- Help detect and prevent fraudulent, abusive, or unauthorized activity on the Site.
Categories of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the Site to operate and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are typically set only in response to actions you take, such as submitting an inquiry form, setting cookie preferences, or navigating between secure pages. Without these cookies, certain parts of the Site may not function as intended.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Site, such as which pages are visited most frequently, how long visitors spend on particular pages, and whether visitors encounter any error messages. We use this information in aggregate, statistical form to understand traffic patterns and to improve the performance and content of the Site. We may rely on third-party analytics providers, such as Google Analytics, to help us collect and interpret this information.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the Site to remember choices you make, such as your cookie consent preferences, and to provide enhanced, more personalized features. Information collected by functionality cookies may be anonymized and is not used to track your browsing activity on unrelated third-party websites.
Targeting and Marketing Cookies
These cookies may be placed by us or by our advertising and marketing partners to build a profile of your interests based on your browsing activity and to deliver content or advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests, whether on our Site or elsewhere. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see a particular advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
Social Media Cookies
Where the Site includes features from social media platforms, such as embedded content or share buttons, those platforms may set their own cookies through the Site. GPI Companies does not control the setting of these cookies, and we encourage you to review the relevant social media platform’s cookie and privacy policies for more information.
Session and Persistent Cookies
Session cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted from your device when you close your browser. They are typically used to support core Site functionality during a single browsing session.
Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser and are used to remember your preferences or actions across multiple visits to the Site. The specific duration, or “lifespan,” of a persistent cookie varies depending on the individual cookie and the purpose for which it was set, and may range from a single day to several years.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on the Site are placed by third parties whose services or content appear on our pages, including analytics providers, mapping and location services, video hosting platforms, social media platforms, customer relationship management tools, and marketing or advertising networks. GPI Companies does not control the operation of these third-party cookies, and their use is governed by the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant third party, not by this policy.
Third-party providers whose technologies may operate on the Site include, without limitation, providers of website analytics, hosting and content delivery, embedded mapping and directions tools, embedded video or media players, social media integrations, and email or marketing automation platforms. We encourage you to review each provider’s own cookie and privacy disclosures for further detail on how they collect and use information.
Cookies Used on This Site
Illustrative Cookie Table
The table below illustrates the general categories of cookies commonly used on sites like ours. Because specific third-party tools may change over time, this table is illustrative rather than an exhaustive technical inventory; for the current list of active cookies, you may consult your browser’s cookie inspector while visiting the Site.
Strictly Necessary
Purpose: session management, form security, cookie consent preference storage. Typical duration: session to one year.
Analytics
Purpose: page view tracking, traffic source analysis, on-site behavior measurement. Typical duration: up to two years.
Functionality
Purpose: remembering display preferences and previously viewed content. Typical duration: up to one year.
Marketing
Purpose: measuring campaign performance and, where enabled, supporting retargeting. Typical duration: up to one year.
Your Cookie Choices
Cookie Consent Tools
Where required by applicable law, we will present you with a cookie banner or preference center when you first visit the Site, allowing you to accept or decline non-essential categories of cookies. You may update or withdraw your consent at any time by returning to the cookie preference settings, typically accessible through a link in the Site footer.
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings, including the ability to block cookies entirely, delete existing cookies, or receive a notification each time a cookie is set. Because the process differs by browser, please consult your browser’s help documentation for specific instructions, including for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge.
Please note that if you choose to block or delete cookies, some features and functionality of the Site, including certain forms and interactive content, may not operate correctly, and your overall browsing experience may be affected.
Mobile Device Settings
If you access the Site through a mobile device, your device’s operating system may offer additional controls for limiting ad tracking or resetting your device’s advertising identifier. Please consult your device settings for further information.
Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising
You may also opt out of receiving certain interest-based advertising from participating companies through industry opt-out tools, including those offered by the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative. If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you may find additional tools through Your Online Choices. Please note that opting out through these tools does not opt you out of all advertising and will not remove all cookies from your device; it will only opt you out of participating companies’ interest-based advertising programs.
Do Not Track Signals
Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want your online activity tracked. Because there is not yet a common industry standard for how to interpret and respond to Do Not Track signals, the Site does not currently respond to them.
California and Other State Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, including certain uses of cookies for cross-context behavioral advertising, under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act. Residents of other states with comprehensive privacy laws may have similar rights. Please see our Privacy Policy for details on how to exercise these rights.
Cookies and Personal Information
Some of the information collected through cookies, such as IP addresses or unique device identifiers, may be considered personal information under certain privacy laws. Where this is the case, our collection, use, and disclosure of that information is governed by our Privacy Policy in addition to this Cookies Policy. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more information about your rights regarding personal information, including any applicable rights to access, correct, delete, or limit the use of your information.
International Visitors
If you are visiting the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that cookies and any information they collect may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate, which may have different data protection laws than your jurisdiction.
Children’s Information
The Site is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly use cookies to collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Updates to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies and related technologies we use, changes in applicable law, or changes in our business practices. Any updates will be posted on this page along with a revised “Last Updated” date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookies Policy or our use of cookies and similar technologies, please contact us using the information below.
GPI Companies
Website: www.gpicompanies.com