Bates White, LLC (“Bates White” “we,” “us,” or “our) uses cookies and other similar technologies, such as web beacons and pixels, to help improve the various services offered through our website (the “Site”). This Cookie Policy provides you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies Bates White uses across its Site and the purposes for using them.
1. What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small files that websites place on your computer or mobile device as you browse the web. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain anonymous information such as a unique identifier, the site name, and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember your preferences or keeps your sessions open so you don’t have to login again.
2. What Cookies We Use and Why
Bates White issues cookies as soon as you visit our Site. Bates White uses performance and functionality cookies.
Performance cookies collect information about how you use our Site. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our Site works and to understand how effective our content is. Although some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties, we do not allow third parties to use the cookies for any purpose other than web analytics (to provide anonymous statistics on how our Site are used) and error management (to help us improve the Site by measuring any errors that occur).
Bates White uses Google Analytics to assist with web analytics. Google Analytics collects information and reports trends without identifying individual users. Google Analytics uses its own cookies to store information such as the date and time you visit our Site and whether this is your first visit.
For more information about cookies used by Google Analytics, please see Google's help pages and privacy policy:
Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js). If you want to opt out of Google Analytics, you can download and install the add-on for your web browser here.
Functionality cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience on our Site. By using the Site, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. They allow the Site to remember choices you make (such as your user name or the region you are in) and provide enhanced features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of the Site. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
3. Consenting to Cookies
If you continue to use our Site and do not reject the cookies, we understand you consent to the use of the cookies outlined in this Cookie Policy for the purposes stated herein. You may withdraw your consent at any time. To do so, you will need to delete your cookies using your internet browser settings.
4. Deleting and Blocking Cookies
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our Site. For further information about deleting or blocking cookies, please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=2 .
5. Third Party Websites and Their Cookies
If you go (via our Site) to our pages on (external) third party social media websites, cookies are used by those websites and your data is controlled by those websites, not Bates White. Therefore Bates White is not responsible for the cookies placed by such websites. Please read carefully the privacy policies of those social media websites before accessing those pages.
Last Updated: July 21, 2021