COOKIE NOTICE & POLICY

1. INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

1.1 Our website (our “site”) is operated by Great Western Malting Co trading as “Country Malt Group” (registered number 2184031) whose registered office is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808 USA (“we”, “us”, “our”). “Country Malt Group” is a member of the United Malt Group of Companies, whose ultimate parent is United Malt (company number 140 174 189) whose registered office is Level 28, 175 Liverpool Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia (“parent”). The site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and this helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also to improve our site.

1.2 If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our site or stop our site placing further cookies on your device you can do this at any time (learn how to do this below).

1.3 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. We use the following cookies:

1.3.1 Strictly necessary cookies.

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site or make purchases. We do not require your consent to place these cookies. Nevertheless, 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.

1.3.2 Non-essential cookies

(a) Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that 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 (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

(b) Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

1.4 You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie	Cookie Duration	Purpose	More Information
VISID{0} – siteId ANONID{0} – siteId ANONID_FS{0} -siteId	30 minutes	These cookies work together to track visit session identifiers which is used to aggregate page usages.	Adobe Business Catalyst Analytical/ Performance Cookie
visitorDevice Class	N/A	Identifies if the visitor uses a tablet/ iPhone /Desktop to display the dedicated layout of the site.	Adobe Business Catalyst Strictly necessary cookies.
ASP.NET_ SessionId	Session only	This cookie is used to store a unique identifier for your session	Microsoft Strictly necessary cookies.
_gat_gtag_	10 minutes	Google Analytics These cookies are used to throttle requests and does not store any user information.	Google Analytics Analytical/ Performance Cookie
_gid	24 hours	These cookies work together to track visit session identifiers which is used to aggregate page usages.	Adobe Business Catalyst Analytical/ Performance Cookie
_ga	2 years	Google Analytics This cookie is used to distinguish users and has an expiration of 2-years.	Google Analytics Analytical/ Performance Cookie
Check Consent	30 Days	This cookie is to remember users choice of whether to allow non-essential cookies. Essential Cookies.	Essential Cookies.
cookie consent _status	30 Days	This cookie is to remember users choice of whether to allow non-essential cookies.	Essential Cookies.

1.5 Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

1.6 You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, as set out above, 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. For instance, our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded video powered by YouTube and Vimeo. Disabling all cookies may mean you cannot access the functions offered by these third parties.

2. MORE INFORMATION

2.1 More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at https://www.aboutcookies.org/

2.2 If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our cookies policy or how we use cookies on our site, then you can contact us by email at privacy@greatwesternmalting.com.

3. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIES POLICY

3.1 Any changes to this cookies policy in the future will be posted on this page and we will communicate any changes to you. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this cookies policy. We will also bring your attention to such changes by updating our cookie banner/ pop-up.

3.2 This policy was issued on 24 May 2018. (vers.1.0)