Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how LIT Systems Inc. or MacPhini Foundation uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.

It should be read together with our Privacy Policy & Data Protection Statement, which provides further information about how we collect, use, store and protect personal information and how you can exercise your privacy rights.

For the purposes of this Policy, references to “we”, “us” and “our” mean LIT Systems Inc. or MacPhini Foundation, the organisation responsible for operating this website.

Cookies are small data files that websites may place on or access through a user's browser or device.

Cookies and similar technologies can help websites:

• function correctly;
• maintain security;
• remember preferences;
• understand how visitors use the website;
• measure website performance;
• improve user experience; and
• support communications or marketing functionality where permitted.

Some cookies operate only during a browsing session, while others may remain on a device for a specified period.

The term “cookies” in this Policy also includes comparable technologies where appropriate, such as local storage, pixels, tags and similar browser or device technologies.

A. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website or a requested digital service to operate properly.

They may support functions such as:

• website security;
• session management;
• application or form functionality;
• fraud or abuse prevention;
• accessibility;
• load balancing;
• consent preference storage; and
• other essential website operations.

Because these cookies are necessary for the website or requested service to function, they may not always require optional consent.

Users should not be able to disable strictly necessary cookies through the website's cookie-preference centre where doing so would prevent essential functionality.

B. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies support enhanced website functionality and preferences.

They may be used to:

• remember user preferences;
• remember interface choices;
• support enhanced interactive functionality;
• maintain certain non-essential personalisation settings; or
• improve convenience during repeat visits.

Where required by applicable law, these cookies will not be activated without appropriate user choice.

C. Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.

They may provide information about:

• pages visited;
• navigation paths;
• approximate traffic sources;
• time spent on pages;
• website errors;
• device/browser categories;
• application or enquiry funnel performance; and
• aggregate website usage patterns.

We use this information to understand website performance and improve content, functionality and user experience.

Where required, analytics technologies will not be activated until the user has provided appropriate consent.

D. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Where used, advertising or marketing technologies may help us:

• measure the effectiveness of communications or campaigns;
• understand whether users interact with particular promotions;
• deliver or measure relevant advertising;
• manage campaign attribution; or
• limit repeated advertising.

These technologies may be operated by third-party providers.

Where consent is required, advertising and marketing technologies will remain disabled unless the user actively accepts them.

The websites do not need to use advertising or marketing cookies merely because this category exists in the policy. If none are deployed, the category should be shown as unused or omitted from the live preference centre.

Some cookies may be set directly by this website.

Others may be set by authorised third-party services integrated into the website, such as:

• website analytics providers;
• embedded video services;
• event or scheduling platforms;
• social-media integrations;
• interactive tools;
• application services; or
• other technology providers.

Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie practices.

We seek to use third-party technologies responsibly and to limit their access to information to what is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

Where consent is required, visitors will be provided with a cookie consent interface when they first visit the website.

Users should be able to:

Accept All Allow all available cookie categories.

Reject Non-Essential Continue using the website with only strictly necessary technologies.

Manage Preferences Choose which optional categories to permit.

Consent should not be assumed merely because a visitor continues browsing the website.

Optional categories should remain disabled until the appropriate choice has been made where prior consent is legally required.

Users may change their cookie preferences after making an initial selection.

A persistent “Cookie Settings” or equivalent link should be available through the website footer.

Withdrawing consent should be reasonably as easy as granting it.

Changing a preference will prevent the relevant optional technologies from being activated in future. Some cookies already stored on a device may need to be removed through the browser or appropriate technical controls.

Cookies may be:

Session cookies, which generally expire when the browser session ends; or

Persistent cookies, which remain for a specified period or until deleted.

We will seek to retain cookies only for periods reasonably necessary for their intended purpose.

Specific cookie names, providers, purposes and durations should be available through the website's cookie preference interface or cookie table where technically practicable.

Most browsers allow users to control or delete cookies through their browser settings.

Blocking all cookies may affect website functionality, particularly where strictly necessary technologies are required for:

• security;
• authentication;
• application portals;
• saved progress; or
• other essential features.

Browser-level controls operate separately from the website's own cookie-preference system.

Some cookie and tracking technologies may involve the processing of information that constitutes personal information under applicable law.

Further information about:

• why we process personal information;
• how information may be shared;
• international processing;
• data retention;
• security;
• privacy rights; and
• how to contact us

is provided in our Privacy Policy & Data Protection Statement.

This Cookie Policy may be updated when:

• website functionality changes;
• new technologies are introduced;
• third-party providers change;
• our data practices change; or
• applicable legal requirements change.

The current version will be published on the website with its most recent update date.

Questions about cookies, tracking technologies or privacy practices may be directed to:

[Privacy Contact/Title] [Legal Operating Entity] [Privacy Email Address] [Website]