Chart Industries, Inc. Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy describes how Chart uses cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, JavaScript, and flash cookies (together "cookies"). This Cookie Policy only applies with respect to websites operated by Chart Industries, Inc. with its business address at 3055 Torrington Drive, Ball Ground, GA 30107, USA, and its affiliates and subsidiaries (together referred to as "Chart") or on their behalf and on which a direct hyperlink to this Cookie Policy is posted ("website" or "websites").
1. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small files that the website saves on your computer or mobile device (such as your mobile phone, laptop or tablet) when you visit the website. They are used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the website provider. Cookies serve to provide you with the best possible and interactive user journey on our website, provide us with information on how you use our website, recognize you and allow for a personalized user experience. Cookies can also be used for re-targeting purposes, according to which information from your browser is used to provide you with advertisement customized to your interests and activities on our website.
Depending on the purpose and functionality, cookies are categorized as follows:
- 1.1. Essential cookies are required for the operation of our website, so that you can browse our website and use its features, store and hold items in a shopping cart etc. Disabling these cookies would impede the website’s performance and we would not be able to provide you with the features and services offered through the website.
- 1.2. Preference cookies provide us with information on choices made by website visitors, e.g. language preferences, or enable us to remember you, i. e. your user name and password so that you are being automatically logged in.
- 1.3. Analytics cookies allow us to analyze your activities on our website (i.e. which pages were visited and which links were clicked on) in order to improve and adapt the way our website works. The information gathered through these cookies is aggregated, anonymized and cannot be used to identify an individual. However, cookies placed are first and third party cookies.
- 1.4. Marketing cookies are placed to track online activities, including your visits to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links and advertisements you have clicked. The information gathered through cookies is usually shared with other advertisers.
| Cookie | Cookie Duration | Essential, Preference, Analytics or Marketing Cookie | Type of Cookie | Data Held | Purpose | How to Manage the Cookie (Block or Delete) |
| _gat | 10 minutes | Analytics | Third Party | The Number 1 | Throttling analytics requests | Block |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Expires at browser close | Essential | First Party | A unique session ID | Not Used | Delete |
| _gid | 24 hours | Analytics | Third Party | A session identifier | Tracking user behavior on the site | Block |
| CMSPreferredCulture | 356 days and 2 hours | Essential | First Party | Culture appreviation (example: en-US) | Set by the underlying subsystem to identify the language of the page. | Delete |
| Visitor_id |
10 years | Marketing | Third Party | A unique Visitor ID, the account ID and a security hash. | This cookie is a security measure to make sure that a malicious user can’t fake a visitor from the Marketing subsystem and access corresponding prospect information. | Block |
| Visitor_id |
10 years | Marketing | Third Party | A unique visitor ID and the unique ID for the Marketing subsystem account | Used to make sure the visitor is tracked on the correct Marketing subsystem account | Block |
| _ga | 2 years | Analytics | Third Party | The version of the analytics code, the level of the domain, a random number and a time stamp. | To uniquely define a user. | Delete |
| CMSPreferredUICulture | 1 year | Essential | First Party | Culture abbreviation (example: en-US) | Culture abbreviation | Delete |
| CMSCookieLevel | 1 year | Essential | First Party | Level Number | Specifies which cookies are allowed by the visitor. | Delete |
2. Types of Cookies
- 2.1. First Party Cookies First Party cookies are cookies, which are placed by Chart to interact with you will you are visiting our website.
- 2.2. Third Party Cookies Third party cookies are placed on your device not by Chart but by a third party provider that provides advertisement, analytics or other services (e.g. social media). While visiting our website, these third party providers place cookies to acquire information on your website behavior. For further information on how third party providers use information acquired through their cookies, please refer to their cookie policy. Information on how these cookies can be managed is contained in the table above.
3. Data held by Cookies
Third party cookies are placed on your device not by Chart but by a third party provider that provides advertisement, analytics or other services (e.g. social media). While visiting our website, these third party providers place cookies to acquire information on your website behavior. For further information on how third party providers use information acquired through their cookies, please refer to their cookie policy. Information on how these cookies can be managed is contained in the table above.
4. How Do We Use Cookies?
The way we use a cookie vastly depends on the type of cookie. Further information is contained in the table above. Generally, cookies are used to provide you with a browsing experience, to identify you as a recurring visitor of our website, provide you with interest based banners and advertisements.
5. When Do Cookies Expire?
- 5.1. Session cookies are temporary and expire once the browser is closed or the session ends.
- 5.2. Persistent cookies remain on the device until they are deleted or the browser erases them, depending on the cookies expiration date. Persistent cookies have an expiration date.
6. How Can You Block, Delete or Otherwise Manage Cookies?
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Please note that your Internet browser allows you to change your cookie settings, including deleting and blocking them. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful:
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Please note that if you choose to opt out, you will not necessarily see fewer ads. However, the ads you see may be less relevant to your interests. You can also opt out of the use of cookies to tailor content or advertising to you by visiting, for example, AllAboutCookies, YourAdChoices or Network Advertising Initiative.
You can easily accept or reject the Analytics cookies on this website by choosing the applicable permission buttons or boxes in the cookie consent pop-up banner when you enter our website.
7. How Do We Respond to a Do Not Track Signal?
"Do Not Track" or "DNT" is a web browser setting that requests that a web application disables its tracking of an individual user. When you choose to turn on the DNT setting in your browser, your browser sends a special signal to websites, analytics companies, ad networks, plug in providers, and other web services you encounter while browsing to stop tracking your activity. There is currently neither a statutory obligation nor an industry agreement on how to respond to a DNT signal. At this time, our website and other services are not set up to respond to the DNT signal. For more information see All About Do Not Track.
8. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding our use of cookies, please direct your request to:
Chart Industries, Inc.
3055 Torrington Drive
Ball Ground, GA 30107
Email Address: globaldataprivacy@chartindustries.com
9. Ammendments
Chart will amend this Cookie Policy from time to time and inform you, as required by applicable law, but we will not reduce your rights.
(December 2019)