UNDERSTANDING HOW AND WHY WE USE COOKIES
We use cookies and similar technologies on our websites (“Sites”) to provide you with excellent client service and create the most effective Sites possible for our clients and other visitors to the Sites. Among other things, the cookies we use are essential to the running of our Sites and necessary for the functionality of your client or visitor experience while on our Sites. When you choose to consent by either agreeing to the use of cookies through our cookie notification tool and/or by accessing a link in a legal advisory, newsletter or other mailing from us, we will also use certain nonessential cookies to improve your experience when using our Sites and ensure the Sites meet or exceed your expectations and ours, including to:
- help us remember and recognize your preferences;
- provide critical website functionality;
- help us see if our Sites are working properly;
- control how often you'll see our advertisements online;
- show you relevant messages and offerings; and
- make your online experience better and more consistent.
If you are concerned about our use of cookies, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies and how to disable them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Please remember that we also use cookies to enable and improve certain functions of our website. If you choose to switch off or disable certain essential cookies, it is likely to affect how our website works on your computer, smartphone or device. Our website offers the opportunity to change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the persistent cookie icon on every page.
TYPES OF COOKIES
The length of time a cookie stays on your device depends on its type. We use two general types of cookies on our Sites:
- Session cookies are temporary cookies which only exist during the time you use our Sites (or more specifically, until you close the browser after using our Sites). Session cookies help our Sites understand what you chose on the previous page, thereby enhancing your experience while you are visiting our Sites.
- Persistent cookies stay on your device after you’ve visited our Sites. Persistent cookies help our Sites recognize you the next time you visit it and help us identify you as a unique visitor.
Essential/Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to the running of our Sites and necessary for the functionality of your client or visitor experience while on our Sites.
We would suggest that you not disable essential/necessary cookies because they allow us to:
- remember and recognize your cookie preferences;
- provide critical website functionality; and
- see if something isn't working properly, so we can fix it quickly.
Experience/Insight Cookies
These cookies help us to make sure you have the best possible experience and client service on our Sites by helping us to:
- make the Sites easier to use and help you find what you need more easily;
- test and improve the content you see; and
- understand how you found out about Armstrong Teasdale and our services.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies help us manage the online advertising you see on our Sites by allowing us to:
- control how often you'll see our advertisements online;
- show you relevant messages and offers; and
- make your online experience better and more consistent.
Disabling these cookies won’t stop you from seeing our advertising. In fact, you could see more advertisements from us and they could be less relevant to you.
COOKIES WE USE
Name |
Vendor |
Classification |
fc-disclaimer |
Armstrong Teasdale |
Essential |
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Cloudflare Inc |
Essential |
tldCookie |
Essential |
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JSESSIONID |
New Relic Inc |
Essential |
NREUM |
New Relic Inc |
Essential |
^_ga$ |
Google LLC |
Analytics |
^_gat* |
Google LLC |
Analytics |
^_gid$ |
Google LLC |
Analytics |
^_utm* |
Google LLC |
Analytics |
uid |
Oracle |
Marketing |
na_id |
Oracle |
Marketing |
^um$ |
Oracle |
Marketing |
__atrfs |
Oracle |
Marketing |
^__atuvs$ |
Oracle |
Marketing |
^__atuvc$ |
Oracle |
Marketing |
__atssc |
Oracle |
Marketing |
uvc |
Oracle |
Marketing |
loc |
Oracle |
Marketing |
bt2 |
Oracle |
Marketing |
di2 |
Oracle |
Marketing |
^vc$ |
Oracle |
Marketing |
ouid |
Oracle |
Marketing |
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COOKIES
The browsers of most computers, smartphones, and other web-enabled devices are typically set up to accept cookies. If you wish to amend your cookie preferences for our Sites, any local sites, or any other websites, you can do this through your browser settings. Your browser’s ‘help’ function will tell you how to do this. However, please remember that cookies are often used to enable and improve certain functions on our Sites. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it is likely to affect how our Sites work.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT COOKIES
Can the cookies you use pass on my Personal Information to others?
Armstrong Teasdale will not share any Personal Information gathered through cookies on its Sites with third parties, other than with service providers acting on our behalf to enhance your experience and provide us with information regarding your experience so we can provide you (our clients and other visitors) with excellent service. In this regard, we do use experience/insight cookies on our Sites to help us make the experience better for you when you visit them and in order to do so we must share certain limited information with our third-party analytics providers.
Do cookies compromise my security?
No, in fact, many of the cookies used on our Sites are used purely to provide important security features such as protecting your Personal Information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone, or other device for accessing the internet, whenever you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device.
Some of the functions that cookies perform can also be achieved using similar technologies. While this policy refers to ‘cookies’ throughout, the term includes these alternate mechanisms.
More information about cookies, including how to disable them, can be found on http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Can cookies allow others access to my computer’s hard drive?
The cookies we use cannot look into your computer, smartphone, or web-enabled device and obtain information about you or your family or read any material kept on your hard drive.
If I use a public computer, will someone be able to get my details from the cookies?
Our cookies cannot be used by anyone else who has access to the computer to find out anything about you, other than the fact that someone using the computer may have visited a certain website.
MORE ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY
Armstrong Teasdale wants you to know that we respect your privacy and are committed to safeguarding and protecting your privacy in connection with processing your Personal Information. Any Personal Information collected through the cookies on our Sites will be protected by Armstrong Teasdale pursuant to the terms of our Privacy Notice. To find out more about how Armstrong Teasdale protects your privacy when using our Sites, please read our Global Privacy Policy (https://www.armstrongteasdale.com/privacy).
Further, if you have questions or concerns about Armstrong Teasdale’s Cookie Policy, our Global Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or any other aspect of privacy and security of your Personal Information, please do not hesitate to contact one of our Privacy Managers at 314-621-5070, [email protected], or by writing to us at 7700 Forsyth, Suite 1800, St. Louis, Missouri 63105, Attn: Privacy Manager. We will timely respond to your inquiry.
