The British Standards Institution (“BSI”) takes your privacy very seriously and respects the importance of security on the internet.
BSI websites use cookies and similar technologies for various purposes including to distinguish you from other users of our websites. By continuing to use our websites, you agree to our Cookie Policy.
1 What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites remember your preferences and actions over time. Some cookies are essential to the functioning of our website, while others help us improve performance and understand usage.
How We Use Cookies
Cookies serve different purposes and those placed by BSI are referred to as first party Cookies. Cookies may also be placed on your device by a party other than BSI and known as third party cookies. Examples of the uses of third party cookies include collecting information about system performance and customer interaction.
2 Categories of cookies
Depending on their purpose, the cookies used by BSI website domains apply to the following four categories of cookies:
• Strictly Necessary Cookies (Enabled and require opt-out as explained below))
• Performance Cookies (Disabled and require opt-in)
• Functionality Cookies (Disabled and require opt-in)
• Targeting Cookies (Disabled and require opt-in)
3 Description of Cookies
Below is a description of the four types of cookies:
3.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They are essential in enabling you to navigate around our websites and use their features, such as accessing secure areas. We do not require your consent to place these cookies; however, you may be able to block these cookies yourself on your device / browser, but restricting these cookies is likely to mean that our site will not work as you would expect and certain functionality may be inoperable. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for like BSOL or e-shop and e-billing cannot be provided.
3.2 Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use our websites and allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to see how visitors navigate around our site when using it. This helps us improve the way our site works, by ensuring users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our site, how they reached our site, what type of technology they are using which helps us to understand when our site isn't working as expected for certain technologies, how long they spend on the site and which pages they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. Without these cookies you will still be able to use and enjoy all the online features of our website.
3.3 Functionality cookies
These cookies allow our websites to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, personalised features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to customisable parts of our websites including text size and font. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Without these cookies you will still be able to use the site, however, may experience difficulty using certain features and will need to keep logging in as you navigate around our sites.
3.4 Targeting and advertising cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts and communications more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Targeting or advertising cookies can be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
4 Disabling cookies
BSI websites are designed to function optimally with cookies enabled. You can disable cookies via your website browser settings. This may mean that you may no longer have access to some of our website features. Please note that even with all cookies disabled, a negligible amount of information will continue to be retrieved from your web browser. This information is necessary for the basic functioning of our website.
5 Cookie list
We use One Trust to manage and display the cookies used on this website.
To View the full cookie list, access the cookie preference centre by clicking on the cookie icon in the bottom left-hand corner on the website landing page and select the cookie category, then click on view vendor details and select view cookies, which will display the details of each cookie.
The details include the name, purpose, duration, category and provider of each cookie used. The cookie list is updated automatically when changes are made on our site.
6 Managing your cookie preferences
When you first visit our site, you'll be shown a cookie banner allowing you to accept or reject non-essential cookies.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Cookie’ icon on the website landing page. You can then adjust the available sliders and click ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
7 Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
Google Chrome
Internet Explorer
Safari
Firefox
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit
Please be aware that strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled as they are required for the site to function.
8 Third-party cookies
Some cookies are placed by third-party services we use, such as Google Analytics or LinkedIn. These services may collect data about your browsing activity.
We recommend reviewing their privacy policies to understand how your information is used.
9 Compliance with applicable laws and regulations
We comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). You can find more information about how we use your data in our Privacy Policy:
