Cookies Policy

1. What are cookies?

When you visit a website, your browser downloads and stores small pieces of data in text files. This data serves as a record of your visit to that site and make some functions of the website possible. Logging in, switching language preferences and personalising a webpage are all possible because of cookies. They also enable websites to see how you use the site so that improvements can be made.

2. Cookies on the DBX website
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The cookies the DBX website uses fall into the following categories.

Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
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These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our website and use its features. Without them, services you have asked for such as remembering your login details cannot be provided.

Name
Description
Domain
Retention Period
bcookie, bscookie
Used by LinkedIn to uniquely identify devices accessing the platform to detect abuse on the platform and to save the state of 2FA logins
linkedin.com
2 years
CONSENT
Used by Google to remember whether you consented to the use of cookies by their services
google.com
18 years
notice
Remember whether you accepted the use of cookies by our website
drybulkx.com
36 hours

Category 2: Functionality Performance Cookies

These technologies remember choices you make such as the country you visit our websites from, language and search parameters. These can then be used to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections. The information these technologies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites.

The major cookies used on the DBX website are listed below:
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Name
Description
Domain
Retention Period
search_samesite
Used to prevent the browser from sending Google cookies together with cross-site requests
google.com
6 months
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Used by YouTube to measure your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old.
youtube.com
8 months

Category 3: Analytical Cookies

These cookies collect aggregated information on how people use our website.
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Name
Description
Domain
Retention Period
_ga
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.
drybulkx.com
2 years
_gid
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.
drybulkx.com
24 hours
_gat
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
drybulkx.com
1 minute

Category 4: Advertising Cookies

These cookies collect aggregated information on how people use our website.

We use analytics services provided by Google to help us do this.

If you don’t want us to use information about your visits in this way, click here for Google to opt-out of their services.
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Name
Description
Domain
Retention Period
_gcl_au
Used through Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website and advertising
drybulkx.com
3 months
ID
Used by DoubleClick (Google Marketing Platform) to identify unique users
google.com
Session only
IDE
Used by DoubleClick (Google Marketing Platform) to identify unique users
google.com
1 minute
lang
Used by LinkedIn to remember a user’s language setting
linkedin.com
Session only
lidc
Used by LinkedIn to optimize data centre selection
linkedin.com
24 hours
lissc
Used by LinkedIn to ensure there is a correct ‘SameSite’ attribute for all cookies in the browser
linkedin.com
1 year
UserMatchHistory
Used by LinkedIn Ads for ID syncing
linkedin.com
30 days
YSC
Used by YouTube (Google) to track views of embedded videos and deliver personalised adverts
youtube.com
Session

3. Your choices about cookies

Except for any cookies that are essential to provide you with access to our website and the features you request access to, we require your consent for cookies to be placed on your device as you visit our website.

If you don’t want any third party advertising cookies to be set by Google or YouTube (which is owned by Google), click here for Google to opt-out of their services.

If you don’t want to allow cookies at all, or only want to allow use of certain cookies, you can also refer to your browser settings.

You can also use your browser settings to withdraw your consent to our use of cookies at any time and delete cookies that have already been set. The website www.allaboutcookies.org contains comprehensive information about the process of opting out on different browsers.

Note that by disabling certain categories of cookies, you may be prevented from accessing some features of our website or certain content or functionality may not be available.

4.  Privacy support

‍Please see our Privacy Policy for more information about how we use your personal data and to exercise your rights in relation to your personal data.

If you have any questions or concerns about our cookie policy, please contact:
By post: 1 Fore Street, WeWork Moorgate 1021, London EC2Y 9DT, United Kingdom
Email: info@drybulkx.com

5.  Version control
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Version 2.0, published March 2021