1. About this policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Orizzonte Clinical Research Ltd uses cookies and similar technologies on www.orizzonte.co.uk.

It explains:

• what cookies and similar technologies are;
• which categories may be used;
• why they are used;
• when your consent is required;
• how to accept, reject or manage optional technologies; and
• where to find the current details of each technology used on the website.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside the Orizzonte Clinical Research Privacy Notice, which explains how we use and protect personal information and describes your data-protection rights.

2. Who we are

Orizzonte Clinical Research Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 15388883.

Our registered office is:

Orizzonte Clinical Research Ltd
1st Floor North
Westgate House
The High
Harlow
United Kingdom
CM20 1YS

Website: www.orizzonte.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)333 015 2632
Online contact form: www.orizzonte.co.uk/contact

Orizzonte Clinical Research Ltd is responsible for determining how cookies and similar technologies are used on this website, except where a third party independently determines how information collected through its technology will be used.

3. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file placed on a computer, mobile telephone, tablet or other device when a person visits a website.

Cookies can support essential website functions, remember choices, help secure online services and provide information about how a website is used.

Some cookies are removed when the browser is closed. These are commonly called session cookies. Others remain on the device for a specified period or until they are deleted. These are commonly called persistent cookies.

Cookies may be:

• first-party cookies, placed by Orizzonte or by a service operating on our behalf through the Orizzonte domain; or
• third-party cookies, placed by another organisation whose service or content is used on the website.

A cookie does not necessarily identify a person by name. However, cookie identifiers, internet protocol addresses, device details, browsing activity and related information may constitute personal information, particularly when combined with other information.

4. Similar technologies

This policy also applies to technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including, where used:

• pixels and tracking tags;
• scripts;
• local or session storage;
• software development kits;
• embedded media technologies;
• device or browser identifiers; and
• other technologies that store information on, or access information from, a user’s device.

References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies unless the context requires otherwise.

5. Our approach to consent

Some technologies are strictly necessary for the website or a service you request to operate. These technologies may be used without consent where the law permits.

Other technologies are optional. These may include analytics, preference, advertising, targeting and social-media technologies. We will not activate optional technologies unless and until you provide consent through our cookie controls.

When you first visit the website, you should be offered the following choices:

• Accept all
• Reject non-essential
• Manage preferences

Refusing optional cookies will not prevent you from accessing the principal information on the Orizzonte website. Certain optional features or externally provided content may not operate unless the relevant category is enabled.

Your choice applies to the browser and device on which it is made. You may need to make a new choice if you:

• use another browser or device;
• delete the cookie that records your choice;
• use a private or incognito browsing session; or
• reset your browser information.

6. Categories of cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

These technologies are required to operate, secure or deliver a website function requested by the user.

They may be used to:

• maintain website security;
• detect or prevent malicious activity;
• balance website traffic;
• maintain a session;
• submit an online form;
• remember a cookie-consent choice;
• protect forms from spam or automated misuse; or
• provide another service expressly requested by the user.

Strictly necessary technologies cannot normally be switched off through the website’s cookie-preference controls because the relevant function may not work without them.

Where a third-party service is used for a strictly necessary function, it must not use the information for an unrelated purpose merely because its technology has been classified as necessary.

Preference or functionality cookies

These optional technologies remember choices that affect how the website behaves or appears.

They may remember:

• language or accessibility preferences;
• display or layout choices;
• regional preferences; or
• other optional website settings.

Preference cookies will be disabled unless you consent to them.

Analytics or performance cookies

These optional technologies help us understand how the website is used.

They may provide information about:

• pages visited;
• navigation through the website;
• approximate numbers of visitors;
• broad device and browser types;
• how visitors arrived at the website;
• whether a page or feature operates correctly; and
• website errors or performance.

We may use this information to improve the clarity, accessibility, performance and usefulness of the website.

Analytics technologies will not be activated until you consent, even where reports are presented to Orizzonte in aggregated form.

Advertising or targeting cookies

These optional technologies may be used to measure advertising, limit how frequently advertising is shown, understand whether a campaign resulted in a website visit or help another organisation select content or advertising based on browsing activity.

Advertising or targeting technologies may allow information to be linked across websites, services or devices.

Orizzonte will not activate advertising or targeting technologies unless you have consented to this category.

Orizzonte will not use information provided through a participant Registry or study-enquiry form to create advertising profiles unless this is separately, clearly and lawfully explained and the necessary consent has been obtained.

Social-media and embedded-content technologies

Pages may contain content or functionality provided by another organisation, such as:

• videos;
• maps;
• social-mediaposts;
• social-sharingfunctions;
• event or booking tools; or
• other externally hosted content.

The provider may seek to place cookies or receive device and usage information when its content is loaded or used.

Where the technology is not strictly necessary, the content should be blocked or presented through a consent-controlled mechanism until the appropriate choice has been made.

The provider may use information for its own purposes under its own privacy and cookie terms. The current Cookie settings should identify the provider and applicable category before consent is requested.

7. Current cookie register

The authoritative current register of cookies and similar technologies used on this website is available through Cookie settings.

The register must identify, for every technology:

• its name;
• its provider;
• whether it is first party or third party;
• its category;
• its specific purpose;
• whether consent is required;
• its duration or expiry period; and
• where appropriate, a link to the provider’s privacy information.

The register forms part of this Cookie Policy.

The register should update whenever the website’s verified cookie configuration changes. If there is any inconsistency between a general category description in this policy and the specific information in Cookie settings, Orizzonte will investigate and correct the inconsistency.

No optional cookie should be activated merely because it has not yet been added to the register.

8. How long cookies remain on a device

Each cookie’s specific duration must be stated in the current Cookie settings register.

A cookie may remain:

• only for the browser session;
• until the relevant website function is completed;
• until the user changes or withdraws a preference;
• for the fixed period stated in the cookie register; or
• until it is manually deleted.

Orizzonte will not configure a cookie to remain for longer than is reasonably necessary for its stated purpose.

The cookie used to remember a consent choice should normally expire after no more than 12 months. We may ask you to make a new choice sooner if:

• we introduce a new cookie or purpose;
• the organisations receiving information change;
• the consent choices materially change;
• applicable legal or regulatory requirements change; or
• we cannot reliably establish the previous choice.

We may retain a limited record of cookie-consent activity for up to 24 months after a choice ceases to be current where reasonably necessary to demonstrate compliance, investigate a complaint or resolve a dispute. Such records should not be used for advertising.

9. Managing your cookie choices

You can manage optional cookies through the Cookie settings link in the website footer.

The settings should allow you to:

• accept all optional categories;
• reject all optional categories;
• enable or disable individual optional categories; and
• withdraw a previous consent choice.

Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of information use that took place before consent was withdrawn.

After withdrawal, Orizzonte will prevent the relevant optional technologies from being activated in the future. A third-party cookie already stored on the device may need to be deleted through the browser where the third party does not provide a mechanism allowing Orizzonte to remove it directly.

The Cookie settings control should remain accessible from every principal page of the website.

10. Browser controls

Most browsers allow users to inspect, block or delete cookies through their settings.

Browser controls may allow you to:

• block all cookies;
• block third-party cookies;
• delete existing cookies;
• receive a notification when a website seeks to place a cookie; or
• manage site-specific permissions.

Blocking all cookies through a browser may also block strictly necessary cookies and may prevent forms, security controls or other website functions from operating correctly.

Browser settings are an additional control. They do not replace Orizzonte’s responsibility to obtain consent before activating non-essential technologies.

Instructions vary between browsers and devices. Refer to the support information provided by the relevant browser supplier.

11. What happens when optional cookies are rejected?

If you reject non-essential cookies:

• optional analytics, advertising, targeting, preference and social-media technologies should remain disabled;
• the website’s essential content should remain available;
• some optional features or embedded content may not operate; and
• strictly necessary technologies and ordinary server-security processes may continue.

Rejecting optional cookies does not mean that the website processes no technical information at all. A web server may still receive information necessary to deliver and secure a requested page, including an internet protocol address, request time, browser information and security data.

The use of that personal information is explained in the Orizzonte Clinical Research Privacy Notice.

12. Third-party providers

Where a third-party technology is used, Cookie settings should identify the provider and link to appropriate information about its practices.

A third-party provider may process information under:

• Orizzonte’sinstructions;
• its own independent purposes; or
• a combination of responsibilities, depending on the service.

Orizzonte assesses third-party technologies before authorising their use and seeks to limit information to what is reasonably necessary for the identified purpose.

A link to another organisation’s policy does not, by itself, remove Orizzonte’s responsibility to provide clear information and obtain consent where Orizzonte determines that the technology should be used on its website.

13. International access and transfers

Some third-party technology providers may store or access information outside the United Kingdom.

Where an optional technology involves an international transfer, its provider and purpose should be identified in Cookie settings before consent is requested.

Where Orizzonte is responsible for a restricted transfer, we will use an appropriate legal safeguard. Depending on the circumstances, this may include:

• a UK adequacy regulation;
• the UK International Data Transfer Agreement;
• the UK Addendum to the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses; or
• another legally permitted transfer mechanism.

Further information about Orizzonte’s approach to international transfers is provided in the Orizzonte Clinical Research Privacy Notice.

14. Website forms and health information

The cookie-consent process is separate from consent relating to personal or health information submitted through a Registry or study-enquiry form.

Accepting or rejecting cookies will not constitute:

• consent to join the Orizzonte Research Registry;
• consent to use health information;
• consent to assess study eligibility;
• consent to participate in clinical research; or
• consent to receive unrelated marketing.

Where a form collects health information, the applicable privacy information and explicit-consent request should be presented separately at the point of collection.

15. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when:

• website functionality changes;
• a technology or provider is introduced, removed or replaced;
• the purpose of a technology changes;
• retention arrangements change; or
• legal or regulatory requirements change.

The current version will be published on this page with its effective date.

Where a change affects an optional technology or the purpose for which it is used, we will seek a new consent where required.

16. Contact us

If you have a question or concern about cookies or how Orizzonte uses information collected through the website, contact us:

Online: www.orizzonte.co.uk/contact
Telephone: +44 (0)333 015 2632

Postal address:

Data Protection
Orizzonte Clinical Research Ltd
1st Floor North
Westgate House
The High
Harlow
United Kingdom
CM20 1YS

You can also raise a data-protection concern using the complaints procedure described in the Orizzonte Clinical Research Privacy Notice.

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you are concerned about the use of your personal information:

Information Commissioner’s Office – Make a data-protection complaint
Telephone: 0303 123 1113

 

Last reviewed:4 September 2026