Cookie notice

Introduction

This Cookie Notice describes how Clarivate, its affiliates and respective subsidiary companies (“Clarivate,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), along with our third-party business partners, use cookies, web server logs, clear GIFs, pixel tags, HTML5 local storage, local shared objects, scripts, and similar technologies when you interact with our websites, applications, emails, and other online services and products that link to or reference this Notice (the “Services”).

Please review our Privacy Notice for more information regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data and the rights you may have under applicable law.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a unique string of alphanumeric characters that may be placed on your browser or device when you visit a website or other online service to remember information about you.

Cookies may be classified by origin as:

First-party cookies. Cookies placed on your browser or device directly by the website, application, or online service you are visiting.
Third-party cookies. Cookies placed on your browser or device by a domain other than the one you are visiting. For example, these cookies may be set by third-party partners, such as analytics platforms or advertising networks, whose tools or content are integrated into our Services. In addition, the relevant third parties may also track users for their own purposes on our Services and elsewhere on the internet.

Cookies may be classified by duration as:

Session cookies. These are temporary cookies stored on your browser or device for the duration of your visit to our Services. We may use session cookies for purposes such as authenticating users and facilitating navigation across webpages during an active user session. Session cookies are deleted automatically when you end a session, such as when you close your web browser.
Persistent cookies. These cookies remain on your browser or device for a specified period of time and may be accessed and read during subsequent visits to our Services. Depending on their purpose, persistent cookies remain active after you close your browser and will persist until their defined expiration date unless manually deleted by the user.

To learn more about cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

What are clear GIFs, pixel tags, and similar technologies?

Clear GIFs (also known as web beacons, pixel tags, or web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. Unlike cookies, which are stored on your browser or device, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly within webpages or emails. These technologies may collect information such as: your IP address; browser type, device type, and operating system; the URL of pages you view and the referring URL; time spent on the Services; your language preferences; geographic location; clickstream data; links you click and your search history and web form submissions on the Services; cookie identifiers; and similar information regarding your interaction with an internet website, application, email, newsletter, or advertisement, including access logs and other activity information related to your use of the Services.

We may use clear GIFs and similar technologies to track your activity and authenticate your access to the Services, understand your interests, analyse web traffic, provide interest-based advertising, improve our Services, personalise content, and to measure and track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. We may also share certain web form submissions (pseudonymized) with third-party partners allowing us to understand the conversion of our campaigns and personalize advertisement that you will see We and our third-party partners may combine data collected through these technologies with other personal data we have collected about you.

We and our third-party partners may also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

Types and list of technologies we use

The technologies used on our Services may be classified as:

Strictly necessary. These technologies are necessary for the Services to function and are always active. They are used to enable functionality on the Services, such as setting privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
Functional. These technologies enable the Services to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers we use to provide the Services. For example, these technologies may provide for specific features, such as language settings and video playback. If you do not allow these technologies to run, certain features of the Services may not function properly.
Performance. These technologies count visits and traffic sources in order to measure and improve the performance of the Services. They help identify which pages or functions within the Services are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around our Services.
Social media. These technologies are used to enable features such as social media sharing or “like” buttons on our Services. They may also provide the ability to link your social media account or engage with our content on or through a social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. These technologies may enable the providers of such social media platforms to track your online activity and interests.
Targeting. These technologies may be set through the Services by us or our third-party advertising partners to learn about your interests and present you with relevant advertisements on other websites. These advertising partners may be able to identify you based on your device or other online activity across different websites and over time.

How to manage your preferences

Where applicable under local law, you may have the right to choose whether or not to accept non-essential cookies. Cookies listed as “Strictly Necessary” are regarded as essential because they are required for the basic function of the Services. Please note that if you choose not to accept certain non-essential cookies, or if you later remove them manually, this could affect the availability or functionality of the Services. If you wish to change your cookie preferences or opt out of the use of non-essential cookies, please click the “Manage Cookie Preferences” link available in the website footer.

Browser Controls

Most browsers are configured to automatically accept cookies. You may be able to set your browser to block cookies by default or to delete the cookies stored on your browser. Please review your browser’s “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note, however, that disabling or deleting cookies could affect the availability or functionality of the Services. For additional information on how to manage cookies on several popular browsers, please refer to the appropriate link:

Analytics

In certain instances, we may use third-party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand user behavior on our online services. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt-out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Interest-Based Advertising

Many third-party advertising providers may offer a way to opt out of interest-based advertising through their own opt-out pages. For example, you may be able to opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google Ad Settings.

Certain industry groups also offer opt-out mechanisms that may allow you to control whether participating third parties may use your information to provide interest-based advertising. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising from third-party advertising providers that participate in these programs, please visit:

We do not maintain or control these opt-out mechanisms, which are provided by non-affiliated third parties. Further, we do not control which third parties choose to participate in these opt-out mechanisms. Please note that opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean that you will no longer see advertising on the Services, but these ads may be less relevant to your interests.

If you use different devices to access the Services, you will need to update your cookie preferences for each device and browser.

How you can contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Notice or how we process your personal data, please contact us at data.privacy@clarivate.com or via the mailing address below.

Clarivate Analytics (UK) Limited
Attn: Legal, Clarivate Global Privacy Office
70 St Mary Axe
London EC3A 8BE
United Kingdom

Clarivate Analytics (US) LLC
1500 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
United States

Clarivate Analytics (Espana), S.A.U
Calle Provença 398
8025 Barcelona Spain

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