Cookie Notice
Effective From: 3 February 2024
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Introduction
This cookie notice (“notice”) applies to the use by AngloGold Ashanti (Pty) Ltd (“AGA”, “we” or “us”), a company incorporated in the Republic of South Africa, of cookies and other similar technologies on the AngloGold Ashanti website www.anglogoldashanti.com, (“Website”). The purpose of this notice is to provide you with information about what cookies are and how they work. It also explains what cookies we use, what they do and how you can control what cookies we use when you visit our Website. This notice should be read alongside our Privacy Notice which gives full details of how and why we use your personal information when you are using this website and provides details about your legal rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us if you have a complaint.
The Website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect personal data relating to children. References in this notice to “you” or “your” are references to individuals who use the Website.
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Who is the controller for the personal data processed?
A “controller” is a person or organisation who alone or jointly determines the purposes for which, and the manner in which, any personal data is, or is likely to be, processed. This notice is issued on behalf of AGA as controller. Unless we notify you otherwise, AGA is the controller for your personal data.
This Website includes links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Where you have opted in to Statistical Cookies and/ or Marketing Cookies, it may be possible for third-party websites to track your browsing behaviour when you leave the Website. You can opt out of these cookies at any time using the links below. The link to our Cookie Consent Tool is also available at the footer of every page on the Website. We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
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What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device (e.g. computer, smartphone, electronic device which accesses the internet) when you visit a website. Cookies can be useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device, preferences and generally help to improve your online experience. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com.
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What types of cookies do we use and how long do they last?
There are three types of cookies that we use, Necessary (Functional) cookies, Statistical cookies and Marketing cookies. These cookies perform different functions as explained below.
We use both first party and third-party cookies. First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting. Third party cookies are set by a domain which is different to the website you are visiting, an example of this is where cookies are placed on your device by YouTube to provide ad delivery or retargeting.
Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies are cookies which are deleted when you close your internet browser. Persistent cookies stay in place after you have closed your browser, for example, a cookie which tracks whether you are a new or return visitor to the Website. Details on how long these cookies last for are set out below.
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Necessary (Functional) Cookies
Necessary cookies are essential in order to provide you with the services you request on our Website and in order that we can comply with legal obligations such as our security obligations under data protection law. We do not need to ask for your consent in order to use these cookies as without them we would not be able to provide the services requested by you. These are always active on the Website.
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Statistical Cookies
Statistical cookies collect information about things like how many people visit our Website, what parts of the Website people look at and how many new visitors we have to the Website. These cookies help us to monitor how effective our Website is and to improve it, tailoring it to our visitors.
Statistical cookies are only used if you consent to it in the Cookie Consent Tool.
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Marketing Cookies
Marketing Cookies are used to provide you with access to content and information that you may be interested in, for example, we have links to our presence on social media sites where sharing of AGA content on those sites is facilitated by cookies dropped by YouTube.
Marketing cookies are only used if you consent to it in the Cookie Consent Tool.
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Consent
Necessary cookies will always be active on your device, but we ask for your consent to place statistical and marketing cookies and other similar technologies on your device. If at any time you want to change your cookie settings, including withdrawing your consent to this processing, we would encourage you to do this via the link at the bottom of this page. You may need to refresh the page before the changes to the settings take effect.
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Details of Cookies used by AGA
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Necessary (Functional)
Necessary cookies are essential for the operation of this site, for example, to ensure that a page displays correctly. The site will not operate properly without these cookies. These cookies are always set to on by default and cannot be changed.
.NET platformcookie name description domain Used by Microsoft .NET-based sites to maintain an anonymized user session by the server. This cookie expires at the end of a browsing session which is determined by the application configuration. www.tropicanajv.com.au
Amazon Web Servicescookie name description domain For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). www.tropicanajv.com.au These cookies enable us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth as possible. A so-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual. www.tropicanajv.com.au -
Statistics
Statistics cookies help improve the usability and layout of this site, for example, to help us design a layout and/or create pages which are useful to our visitors to the site.
Google Analyticscookie name description domain Logs the details about the visitor’s computer and browser using Google Analytics Tracking Code. The cookie is a pixel tracker type and is only active during the browsing session. ssl.google-analytics.com Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions .tropicanajv.com.au Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server .tropicanajv.com.au Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user .tropicanajv.com.au Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. .tropicanajv.com.au ID used to identify users and sessions .tropicanajv.com.au Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests .tropicanajv.com.au Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analtyics server. .tropicanajv.com.au -
Marketing
Marketing cookies help us and other third parties to provide content which may be of interest to you based on your browsing history.
Google Analyticscookie name description domain Logs the details about the visitor’s computer and browser using Google Analytics Tracking Code. The cookie is a pixel tracker type and is only active during the browsing session. ssl.google-analytics.com Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions .tropicanajv.com.au Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server .tropicanajv.com.au Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user .tropicanajv.com.au Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. .tropicanajv.com.au ID used to identify users and sessions .tropicanajv.com.au Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests .tropicanajv.com.au Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analtyics server. .tropicanajv.com.au
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How to block all cookies and the consequences of this
If you want to block all cookies, you may be able to do this through the settings in your browser for each browser you use and each device you use to access the internet. Please be aware that some areas of our Website may not work if your browser does not accept cookies. The “Help” function within your web browser should tell you how to make these changes, alternatively www.allaboutcookies.org provides further information on how to do this and on how to delete cookies.
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Help and complaints
If you have any questions about this notice or the information we hold about you please contact AGAdataprivacy@aga.gold.
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Changes to the notice
The first version of this notice was issued on [DATE] and this notice was last updated on the “effective from” date at the top of the is page. Any prior versions of this notice can be obtained by contacting us at AGAdataprivacy@aga.gold.