Cookies Notice
This Cookies Notice explains how Iris Energy Limited (doing business as IREN) and its affiliates (collectively, “IREN” or “us” or “we”) use cookies.
This Cookies Notice applies to the use of cookies on https://iren.com and any other IREN website on or accessible via https://iren.com (the “Websites”). It explains the types of cookies we use and why, and also how you can change your cookie preferences.
You should read this Cookies Notice alongside our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
1 What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file which is stored on your computer or device when you visit a website. They are generally used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information about your use of the website, and to display content and advertising that is relevant to you.
Other technologies operate in a similar way but use different names: for example, pixels, beacons, tags, scripts, social media plug-ins, device fingerprinting techniques. In this Cookies Notice, we use the term “cookie” to refer to all similar technology.
2 Why do we use cookies?
We (and our partners, including marketing partners) use cookies for various purposes: to analyse trends, administer the services, remember your preferences, track users’ movements around our Websites, gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, enable you to navigate between webpages more efficiently, help us understand how our Websites are used so we can improve it, and record information about your visit to help target advertising and to build a profile of you. The purpose for each cookie we use is set out below.
3 What cookies do we use and how long will they stay on my device?
We use four types of cookies: strictly necessary cookies, performance cookies, functionality cookies (including for social media) and advertising cookies. Each type of cookie has a different purpose.
Some cookies are set by us (known as first-party cookies).
Other cookies are set by another organisation’s website (known as third-party cookies). For third-party cookies, we do not have access or control over these technologies. We do not tie the information gathered by third parties to our client’s and users’ personal information.
A cookie can either be a session cookie or a persistent cookie. A session cookie is stored temporarily on your computer or device while you use the Websites, and is deleted when you close your internet browser. A persistent cookie remains on your computer or device after you have closed your browser, so we can remember if you have visited our Websites before or your preferences or to track your actions across different websites in order to target advertising to you. Depending on the type of cookie, the period of time the persistent cookie stays on your computer or device is set out below.
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies which are essential for our Websites to operate, such as cookies that are used to help a webpage load quickly.
Performance Cookies
These cookies help us to improve the way our Websites works. For example, they gather information that allows us to count the number of visitors to our Websites and to see how visitors move around our Websites.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the Websites to remember choices you have made such as your user name, language, the region you are in, in order to provide a more enhanced and personalised experience.
We also use HTTP cookies for customizing your user experience, remembering your settings, and monitoring use and effectiveness of our services.
Advertising / targeting cookies
These cookies record information about your visit to our Websites to help target advertising and to build a profile of you. For example, the pages you have visited, the links you have followed, the number of times you’ve seen an ad, the ads you have clicked on and your browsing habits and interests.
We, and our advertising partners, use this information to make the ads you see, both on and off our Websites, more personalised and relevant to your interests. Our advertising partners may combine it with other information they have about you, for example information about your browsing habits on other websites or information they have obtained from data brokers. This will then be used to create a profile of you so that relevant advertising is shown to you.
You might also see our advertisements on other websites that you visit. We and our advertising partners use locally shared objects (LSOs) or flash cookies to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing LSOs.
Advertising cookies may also be used for other purposes such as ad click fraud detection, market research, product improvement and debugging.
If you do not wish to have your information used to serve you targeted ads, you can opt out by contacting us via the “Contact Us” section below or by amending your preferences via the cookies preference centre at any time by clicking on the “Manage Cookies” link at the bottom of our Websites. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’ and then click ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. You can also opt out of receiving targeted advertising on websites through members of the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance Your Ad Choices.
Please note that users in the European Union and the United Kingdom may opt out of receiving targeted advertising on websites through members of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, selecting the user’s country, and then clicking “Choices” (or similarly-titled link). Please note this does not opt you out of being served all advertising and you may continue to receive generic ads.
4 Social media plugins
Our Websites also have social media plug-ins. A plug-in allows you to share our Websites content via your social media account or easily share information with others. We have a presence on Twitter or ‘X’, YouTube and LinkedIn.
If you click on any of the social media icons on our Websites, you will be taken to our pages on those platforms.
The platform may then start tracking your behaviour using cookies for their own purposes; for example, to better understand your interests so that they can present relevant content or advertising to you.
Data about you may also be transmitted to the social media channel even if you don’t click on the plug-in.
The social media platforms will provide us with statistical information, which we use to help understand how you and our other users interact with our social medial presence.
All these platforms provide you with some control over their use of non-essential tracking technology and you can find details of how to exercise this control by reviewing their privacy and cookies notices.
5 Pixels in our marketing emails
Our marketing emails contain a campaign-unique “web pixel” to tell us how you interact with our communications, such as whether you opened the email or clicked on a link in it. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email.
We use this information to help determine which of our emails are more interesting to you and to help us determine if you should to continue receiving emails if you do not open them. These pixels help us to understand how effective our marketing campaigns are and your level of engagement with us.
If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should opt-out of email marketing altogether, or configure your email to not load remote images by default or to show your emails in plaintext format. You can opt out of our marketing emails or change your preferences at any time by clicking “Unsubscribe” in the marketing emails or by contacting us via the “Contact Us” section below.
6 List based targeting of clients and potential clients on social media
Sometimes we will use cookies, or other identifiers such as your email address or IP address, to create a list of individuals who we would like to show advertising about our products and services when they use their social media.
We may use this list to target advertising to existing clients or users of our Websites. We may also use this list to target advertising to individuals who share similar interests and profiles to our existing clients or users.
For more information about our use of this type of list based marketing and other similar tools, please visit our Privacy Policy
If you do not wish us to use your information in this way, you can opt-out by contacting us via the “Contact Us” section below.
7 How to change your cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the “Manage Cookies” link at the bottom of our Websites. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’ and then click ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
If you use a smart phone, you can usually prevent cross-site tracking and block cookies in the settings section on your device. You may also be able to visit websites without leaving a history by turning private browsing on. You should visit the support section of the browser on your device for more information on how to do this.
8 Changes to this Cookies Notice
We will inform you of any changes to this Cookies Notice by posting them on our Websites.
This Cookies Notice was last updated on 24 October 2024.
9 Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookies Notice, please contact us using the contact details set out in our Privacy Policy.