RWS Cookie Notice

Date of Last Update: 26 May 2025

This Cookie Notice explains how RWS Holdings Plc and its group of companies (collectively and individually referred to as ‘RWS’) use cookies and the choices you have when you visit our websites. For information on the personal information we collect, including the list of RWS group of companies, please visit:  Privacy Notice.

You can manage our use of cookies in our Cookie Banner, which will appear upon your first visit on the Site, and at regular intervals thereafter. In addition, you can manage your cookies using our Cookie Settings.

Where you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our Sites may not function fully or properly as a result.

A cookie and other tracking technologies (e.g. HTTP cookies, Flash cookies, Software Development Kits, Pixels, Plugins, ‘Like’ buttons and social sharing tools, Device Fingerprinting, altogether referred to as ‘cookies’) are typically small text files stored by your browser when you visit a website. The browser then sends back the cookie to the website on each subsequent visit. 

Cookies can do a lot of different things, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your language preferences, counting the total number of visits to a website and the pages consulted.

They can be classified depending on how long they endure and their provenance: 

Duration 

  • Session cookies: These cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser (or once your session ends). 
  • Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on your hard drive until you erase them, or your browser does, depending on the cookie’s expiration date. 

Provenance 

  • First-party cookies: these cookies are set on your device directly by the website you are visiting. 
  • Third-party cookies: These cookies are placed on your device, not by the website you are visiting, but by a third party like an analytics provider.

To learn more about cookies, please visit: 

We use several types of cookies for the following purposes: 

We utilise third-party vendors to provide us with measurement and analytics services to help us understand how you use our websites and our campaign effectiveness.

You can opt-out of these cookies at any time using our Cookie Settings.

For information on our third-party vendors’ cookie policies, click here: Hubspot, Dropbox, Vimeo, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter/X, Brighter IR, Brightcove, Getsitecontrol, Worldpay, Piwik PRO and Doubleclick. 

Our session cookies automatically expire when you close your browser. The general expiry date for all our other cookies is up to 13 months. For further information, please visit the Cookie Preference Center.

Our Cookie Preference Center 

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on Cookie Settings, adjusting the sliders to On or Off and clicking on Confirm My Choices. 

Use of your Browser settings 

You can control the cookies by allowing the default settings on your browser to continue accepting cookies or by deleting them individually or collectively. 

You can also set your browser not to accept any cookies. 

For example, to install a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on across all websites, please visit:

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page.

We recommend using the “Help” function in the browser on your device to manage your browser acceptance and use of cookies.  

For information on how to manage cookies on some popular browsers: 

Please be aware that if you choose to disable all cookies, our websites may not function fully or properly as a result. 

If you have any questions about this Notice or our use of cookies, please contact us at privacy@rws.com. 

We will regularly update this Notice. The date of the most recent revision will appear at the top of this page. 
 
Please periodically review this page to ensure that you are familiar with its most current version.