Cookie Policy

This cookie policy describes how 50 Degrees North uses cookies and other similar technologies on our website, fiftydegreesnorth.com ("Website").

What are cookies?

50 Degrees North places small data files called cookies on your device to ensure that the website functions properly, to track how you use our Website, to improve our Website and your user experience, and to tailor our Website to your interests. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer or mobile device when you visit the Website. It enables the Website to record and/or remember your actions and preferences.

For more information, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Which types of cookies does 50 Degrees North use?

50 Degrees North uses the following categories of cookies on this Website:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features.

Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the Website, e.g. which pages you go to most often, in order to improve how the Website works.

Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Website to remember the choices that you make (e.g. language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They remember that you have visited the Website and this information may be shared with other organizations, e.g. advertisers.

The cookies used by Fifty Degrees North are either first party or third party cookies. First party cookies are set by Fifty Degrees North and share the same domain. Third party cookies, on the other hand, are stored by a third party provider or organization.

We use both - cookies that expire once you close your browser (called session cookies) and cookies that stay on your device until you delete them or they expire (called persistent cookies).

Additional information regarding Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter referred to as "Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help a website to analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the USA.

As the IP anonymization is activated on this Website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances a full IP address will be saved to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP anonymization is active on this Website. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of this Website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing us with other services relating to the use of this Website and the internet.

You can block the cookie’s collection of data regarding your use of this Website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser add-on found under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

How may this cookie policy be changed?

We reserve the right to change this Cookie Policy at any time without notice to you. Fifty Degrees North will promptly post any policy changes to this page. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Policy. If there are any material changes in the way we treat personal information, Fifty Degrees North will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our Website prior to the change becoming effective.

Your rights

You are entitled at any time to request the deletion of your Personal Data. We have made available a Delete Your User Information tool where you may issue a request for all Personal Data which is currently stored in our system to be deleted.

You also have the right to data portability. We have made available a Download Your User Information tool where you may issue a request for all Personal Data which is currently stored in our system to be exported and made available for download.

How can you contact us?

If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy or Fifty Degrees North's stance on the GDPR, you may contact Fifty Degrees North via the Contact Page or by emailing us directly at info@fiftydegreesnorth.com.