Cookie Policy

WHO WE ARE

Emissence ("Emissence", "we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy and providing transparency regarding the technologies used on our website.

This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies when you visit the Emissence website, interact with our services, or communicate with us online.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information.

By continuing to use our website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Cookie Policy and your cookie preferences will apply in accordance with applicable laws.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or other internet-enabled device when you visit a website.

Cookies enable websites to recognise your browser, remember your preferences, maintain secure sessions, improve website functionality, and analyse how visitors interact with the website.

Cookies generally do not contain information that directly identifies an individual. However, information collected through cookies may become associated with personal information where permitted by applicable law.

2. Why We Use Cookies

Emissence uses cookies to:

• Ensure the website functions correctly;
• Remember your cookie consent preferences;
• Maintain website security and integrity;
• Improve website performance and usability;
• Understand how visitors use our website;
• Measure website traffic and visitor engagement using analytics;
• Support future authenticated areas such as the Emissence client portal.

We only use non-essential cookies where you have provided your consent where required by applicable law.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Depending on the services you use, our website may use the following categories of cookies:

4. Legal Basis for Using Cookies

Depending on your location, we rely on different legal grounds for the use of cookies.

• Strictly necessary cookies are used because they are essential for providing the website and maintaining its security.
• Analytics and other optional cookies are used only after you provide your consent where required by applicable law.
• We comply with applicable privacy and data protection laws, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK GDPR, and other applicable regulations where relevant.

5. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit our website, you are presented with a cookie banner allowing you to choose how optional cookies are used.

You may:

• Accept all cookies;
• Reject optional cookies;
• Select your preferred cookie categories;
• Change your preferences at any time using the "Manage Cookies" option available on our website.

Your cookie preferences are stored for up to 12 months unless you clear your browser cookies or update your preferences earlier.

6. Cookies We Currently Use

The cookies used by Emissence may change over time as our website, services, and technology evolve. The table below describes the primary cookies currently used or planned for use on our website.

Additional cookies may be introduced as new website features, client portal functionality, or third-party integrations become available. This Cookie Policy will be updated accordingly.

7. Third-Party Cookies

Certain cookies placed on our website are provided by carefully selected third-party service providers that assist us in operating, securing, analysing, and improving our website.

These third parties may collect information regarding your use of our website in accordance with their own privacy notices.

Examples include:

• Google Analytics
• Vercel Analytics
• Cloud hosting providers
• Future customer support and CRM platforms
• Future marketing and campaign measurement tools

8. Google Analytics

Emissence uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to better understand how visitors interact with our website and to improve our content, services, and user experience.

Google Analytics collects aggregated information regarding website usage, including pages visited, approximate geographic location, browser type, operating system, referring websites, and general interaction data.

Google Analytics does not provide us with information that directly identifies individual visitors.

Google Analytics cookies are activated only after you provide your consent where required by applicable law.

9. Vercel Analytics

We may use Vercel Analytics to understand website performance, traffic patterns, and visitor engagement.

Vercel Analytics helps us identify technical improvements, optimise website performance, and enhance user experience.

Vercel Analytics is enabled only where analytics cookies have been accepted through our cookie preference centre where required by applicable law.

10. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View stored cookies;
• Delete individual cookies;
• Delete all cookies;
• Block specific categories of cookies;
• Prevent cookies from being stored in the future.

Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect the availability, functionality, or security of certain parts of our website.

You may also update your cookie preferences at any time by using the Manage Cookies option available on our website.

11. International Data Transfers

Emissence provides advisory services to aircraft operators and organisations located in multiple jurisdictions worldwide. Consequently, information collected through cookies may be processed by trusted service providers located outside your country of residence.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, we implement appropriate contractual, technical, and organisational safeguards designed to protect your information in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Where required by applicable law, international transfers are undertaken using recognised legal transfer mechanisms or equivalent safeguards.

12. Cookie Retention

Different cookies remain on your device for different periods of time depending on their purpose.

• Session cookies remain active only while your browser session is open and are automatically deleted once your browser is closed.
• Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or are manually deleted.
• Cookie preference records are retained for up to twelve (12) months unless you update your preferences or clear your browser cookies earlier.
• Analytics cookies are retained in accordance with the retention periods established by the relevant analytics provider.

Cookie retention periods may change as technologies or legal requirements evolve.

13. Children's Privacy

Emissence provides business-to-business consultancy and advisory services for the aviation industry.

Our website is not intended for individuals under the age of eighteen (18), and we do not knowingly use cookies to collect personal information from children.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information through our website, please contact us so that appropriate action can be taken.

14. Your Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Access information relating to cookies used on our website;
• Withdraw or modify your cookie consent at any time.
• Request information regarding how your data is processed through cookies.
• Object to certain processing activities where permitted by law.
• Request deletion of information where processing is based on consent and deletion is legally permissible.

You may exercise these rights by updating your cookie preferences or contacting us using the details provided at the end of this Cookie Policy.

15. Applicable Laws

This Cookie Policy has been prepared having regard to applicable privacy and data protection legislation, including, where applicable:

• Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India);
• General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR);
• United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR);
• Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), where applicable;
• Other applicable privacy and electronic communications laws in jurisdictions where Emissence provides services.

Where local laws provide additional rights or protections, those rights shall apply to the extent required by the applicable legislation.

16. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in applicable laws, regulatory guidance, technologies, website functionality, or our business operations.

Where material changes are made, we will update the "Last Updated" date displayed at the beginning of this Cookie Policy.

We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how cookies are used on our website.

17. Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy, wish to update your cookie preferences, or have concerns regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies, please contact us: