Cookies Policy

Polar Cookies Policy

1. Who we are

We are PolarDC Group LTD, a company with registered office at 9th Floor 107 Cheapside, London, United Kingdom, EC2V 6DN. We operate this website - www.polardc.com – and the services made available through it (our "Website").
This Cookies Policy applies to PolarDC Group LTD and our group companies, including PolarDC Services LTD, referred to collectively as "PolarDC", "we", "our" and "us".
PolarDC Services LTD is our UK services company and is the relevant data controller. PolarDC Services LTD has a registered office at 9th Floor 107 Cheapside, London, United Kingdom, EC2V 6DN.

You can find out more about PolarDC here.

2. Our privacy values

We respect your privacy and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information directly or indirectly relating to you as an individual, and the rights that you have in this regard.
Please see our Privacy Policy for how we handle your personal data.

3. Cookies

Automated data collected on websites is typically carried out using cookies. Cookies are small data files sent by a web server to a web browser in order to enable the server to collect information back from the browser.
When you use our Website, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us through a computer or mobile device, we may automatically collect information about how you access and use the relevant content and information about the device you use to access the content.

We use cookies in accordance with the details set out in our Privacy Policy.

You can delete cookies from your hard drive at any time. You may also set your browser to disable cookies. However, you should be aware that, if you disable cookies, this may limit your ability to enjoy the full functionality of our Website, product or service.

There is full information on how you can do this at http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

4. Our use of Cookies

We use the following cookies on our Website:
a. Strictly necessary (essential) cookies – enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. They also make our Website easier to use by accelerating its display through load balancing. You can disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how our Website functions. You cannot disable these using our cookies tool.

We use the following strictly necessary cookies:

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- Source: This cookie is usually set by the web application you are using such as Chrome or Edge.

- Purpose: Helps keep your online activities secure by making sure that any actions you take on our Website are really coming from you and not someone trying to trick the website into thinking its you.

- Expiry: Usually when you close your browser.

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- Source: This it typically set by our Website or by the web application framework it uses.
- Purpose: Used to maintain and manage the user's session on our Website. It helps our Website remember your actions and preferences during your visit. This ensures a smooth and consistent user experience as you navigate our Website.
- Expiry: End of the session.

- Source: This is typically set by our Website or by the web application framework it uses.
- Purpose: Used to ensure the security of our Website and its users. Helps protect our Website from security threats and other malicious activities. Ensures the data you end and receive from our Website remains secure and that your interactions with our Website are safe.
- Expiry: End of the session.

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- Source: Typically set by our Website or by the web application framework it uses.
- Purpose: Used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our Website. It helps our Website to remember your preferences and actions over multiple visits, ensuring a consistent and personalised user experience.
- Expiry: 2 years.

b. Performance cookies – these cookies are set to provide enhanced functionality and make our Website easier to use, by remembering your preferences, including the preferences you have indicated on our cookies tool, they also provide us with certain analytics on the use of our Website.

We do not currently use performance cookies.

c. Analytical cookies – these cookies help us to understand how users interact with our Website.

- Source: Google Analytics.
- Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users to help us understand how visitors interact with our Website, including metrics like the number of visitors, session duration, and pages per session.
- Expiry: 2 years.

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d. Advertising cookies – these cookies are set to provide targeted advertising, including third party adverts, to you when you use our Website.

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- Source: Google AdSense.
- Purpose: Used by Google Adsense to experiment with advertisement efficiency across websites that use their services. It helps in understanding how well ads are performing and how users interact with them.
- Expiry: 3 months.

5. Cookie consent

Our cookies tool will record when you have consented to non-essential cookies. Essential cookies cannot be disabled using the tool because they are necessary to make our Website function.
You may change your mind about the cookies you have selected through our cookies tool by updating your choices in our tool at any time.
Please be aware that our cookies tool cannot be used to block cookies on third party websites linked to from our Website. In order to remove these cookies, you will need to visit the relevant third party site and follow the instructions in their cookie notices. Alternatively, follow the instructions below to turn off these cookies using your browser settings.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you may be able to use the tool provided by Google available at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

6. Email tracking

We may use and collect Technical Information (as defined in our Privacy Policy) to log or track interactions with certain marketing emails we send to you, for example: if you open the email either by downloading images in the email or clicking in a link, if you click on a "view it as a web page" link in the email, if you click on any web link and if you click unsubscribe. If you do not wish to enable such tracking, please do not download any images in such emails, or alternatively please unsubscribe from our mailing lists by following the link at the bottom of each email.

7. Contacting us

If you have questions about our Cookies Policy, please feel free to email us at
If you wish to raise a concern or exercise any of your rights about our processing of your personal data, you can contact us using one of the options below.

You can contact us by using the Contact Us page on our Website
You can send us an email to the following address: contact@polardc.com
You can write to the following postal address: 9th Floor 107 Cheapside, London, United Kingdom, EC2V 6DN

8. Updates to this Cookies Policy

You can find out when this Cookies Policy was last amended by checking "LAST REVISED" date at the bottom of this page.
All changes to this Cookies Policy will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Cookies Policy.
If you object to any changes, you may cease using our Website, products or services or close your account. By continuing to use our Website, products or services after we publish changes to this Cookies Policy, you are confirming that you have read and understood the changes.

LAST REVISED: October 2024