Columbia Group (the “Columbia Group” or “we”), the operator of this website (https://columbiagroup.org/ ) (the “Website”) uses cookies for its proper operation as well as the best experience of its visitors. This policy provides you with information about the cookies used on the Website and how you can change your cookie preferences.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your devices by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Below, you can find details about the different types of cookies (section C), as well as a complete list of the cookies used on this Website (section F).

We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are strictly necessary for the correct functioning of the Website or for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.

In general, there are different types of cookies that serve different purposes:

• Necessary cookies: Necessary cookies are crucial to your experience of a website, enabling core features like user logins, account management, shopping carts, and payment processing. Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. We use necessary cookies to enable certain functions on our website.
• Performance cookies: Performance cookies track how you use a website during your visit. Typically, this information is anonymous and aggregated, with information tracked across all website users. They help companies understand visitor usage patterns, identify and diagnose problems or errors their users may encounter, and make better strategic decisions in improving their audience’s overall website experience. We would like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. These will be off by default and set only if you accept. We use performance cookies on our website.
• Targeting cookies: Targeting cookies help determine what promotional content is most relevant and appropriate to you and your interests. Websites may use them to deliver targeted advertising or limit the number of times you see an advertisement. This helps companies improve the effectiveness of their campaigns and the quality of content presented to you. These will be off by default and set only if you accept. Targeting cookies set by third-parties may be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service. We use Targeting cookies on our website.
• Functional cookies: Functional cookies are used to collect information about your device and any settings you may configure on the website you are visiting (like language and time zone settings). With this information, websites can provide you with customised, enhanced, or optimised content and services. These shall be off by default and set only if you accept. We use functional cookies on our website.

Cookies may be placed by the Columbia Group itself or by a third party:

• First-party cookies: These are cookies installed on the browser and / or hard drive of your device from the website you are visiting.
• Third-party cookies: These are cookies that are placed on the Website by third parties and/or used to send certain information about your visit to third parties. Columbia Group has no control over these third-party cookies. In particular, this Website uses Google Analytics for helping us better understand how our site is being used and the ways that we can improve the experience of our users. These cookies may track generic information such as the duration of time spent on our site, the subpages visited and the links that are being clicked on. For more details on Google Analytics and on how Google processes your data, please visit Google’s Privacy policy. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across this Website, you can visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .

Through such cookies, aggregate, anonymised and other information not considered as Personal Data under the Europea Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) (such as the URL you came from) may be obtained and used to enhance your experience and understand traffic patterns. They are also used as a tool to compile aggregate statistics about how the Website is used, to perform functions and analyse information, to help us optimise our Website and to help serve you better based on your preferences.

This depends on whether it is a persistent cookie or a temporary/session cookie:

• Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your internet browser until they expire or are deleted. The length of time a persistent cookie stays on your device varies depending on the cookie.
• Temporary/Session cookies are temporarily stored on your device and will remain on your device only during your browsing session and are deleted when you close your internet browser.

The cookies we use are listed below:

• Necessary cookies:

• Performance cookies:

• Targeting cookies:

• Functional cookies:

The data collected via cookies on this Website will not be stored for a period longer than the above-mentioned expiry period for each type of cookie. The information related to you will remain stored until you request for deletion.

• As we describe in our cookie banner (for our users in jurisdictions where we display a cookie banner) and in our cookie settings tool (located in the footer of our Website), we use cookies that are strictly necessary for us to provide the services you use and you cannot opt out of these cookies on our Website.
• By utilizing our cookie settings tool, you can reject all but Necessary cookies, or opt out of specific categories of cookies at any time (as described above and in the Tool).
• If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are necessary to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our Website.
• You can change your cookie preferences relating to our website at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘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, we recommend to visit aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. To find information relating to your specific browser, please visit your browser’s website.
• You may use third-party tools to manage the third-party cookies that may be used by third parties.
• You can opt out of some third-party advertiser and ad-network placement of cookies or targeted advertising generally by visiting the following links: Network Advertising Initiative; Digital Advertising Alliance; European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance(for users in the EU). You will continue to receive generic ads by companies not associated with these opt-out tools.
• Please note: If ads or other features on our services are provided by third parties, they set and use their own cookies that are subject to those third parties’ privacy notices and policies. We do not have access to, or control over, these cookies.