A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer, tablet or mobile phone browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. The cookie has a unique ID assigned to your device, but does not contain any of your personal information like name or email address. Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor our website to your interests. Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps uses essential, analytics and advertising cookies to enable certain web functionality and track aggregate web traffic, site performance and responses to our advertising campaigns. These cookies are placed by marketing systems used by Kroll, such as our content management system, and also by advertising partners helping implement certain ad campaigns.
You may manage your cookie preferences Manage Preferences.
Types of cookies Kroll uses include:
Essential Cookies
These cookies enable the website to function. Certain functional cookies also allow us to respond to service or other inquiries received through a form.
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to function. Certain functional cookies also allow us to respond to service or other inquiries received through a form.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies track aggregate site performance, web speed, traffic sources, video plays and other aggregate data across the site. These cookies allow us to personalize web experience by type of visitor and, upon certain circumstances, by individual user. Individual user information is recognized through form completions or response to certain email marketing campaigns.
Advertising Cookies
Upon occasion, our firm advertises on certain media sites. In order to track ad performance, we place third party cookies from the ad partners. The ad partners may track anonymous site usage behavior on Kroll and link it to other information they have associated with your IP address.
In addition to cookies, some information may automatically be collected as you browse our website(s), such as type of browser, operating system, domain name or IP address.
IP Address
An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to your computer when connected to a network. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you visit Kroll' website, our servers and content management system log your IP address.
Referrers
Kroll also collects information through "referrers" and various environmental variables. A "referrer" is information the Web browser passes along to Kroll' Web server that references the URL from which you came. "Environmental variables" include, among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet, the time you accessed our Web site, type of Web browser and operating system or platform used, the Internet address of the Web site you left to visit Kroll, the names of the pages you visit while at our Web site, and the Internet address of the Web site you then visit. We collect all of this information to allow us to detect broad demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your interests and to enhance your experience on Kroll' website. Kroll may store "referrer" information for a limited period of time prior to deleting this information.
To help us improve our website and to ensure that we make every effort to provide you with information and offers that are of interest to you, we may merge your personal data with click-stream data. We will provide notice of this, as well as an opportunity to opt-out of it, at the time and place of information collection and before data is entered on our system. You may manage your cookie preferences Manage Preferences.
Kroll’ website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that they visit. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected when you visit our Web site.
For further information about our data privacy and security practices, please review the Kroll Privacy Policy.