This Cookie Policy explains how International Awards Associate Inc. uses cookies and similar technologies on the Noble Impact Awards website, entry system, and related digital services.
It should be read together with the Noble Impact Awards Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files stored on your computer, tablet, or mobile device when you visit a website.
They may allow a website to:
- Operate essential functions
- Keep users securely signed in
- Remember preferences
- Maintain entry and checkout sessions
- Understand website usage
- Identify technical problems
- Display embedded content
- Measure marketing performance
We do not retain cookies longer than reasonably necessary for their stated purpose.
2. Similar Technologies
This policy also applies to similar storage and tracking technologies, including:
- Pixels
- Tags
- Software development kits
- Local storage
- Session storage
- Device identifiers
- Embedded scripts
- Similar browser or device technologies
Together, these are referred to as “cookies” in this policy unless otherwise stated.
3. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by the Noble Impact Awards website or entry system.
They may support account access, security, form completion, entry management, checkout, and cookie preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are placed or accessed by external services used through the website, such as:
- Analytics providers
- Payment processors
- Embedded-video services
- Advertising and campaign-measurement providers
- Security and fraud-prevention services
Third-party providers process information according to their own privacy policies as well as any contractual arrangements applicable to their services.
4. Cookie Categories
The descriptions below explain cookie categories. The Noble Impact Awards website currently enables only its strictly necessary session cookie; functional, analytics, advertising, and embedded-media cookies are not currently enabled by this website.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website and entry system to function.
They may support:
- Secure account login
- Authentication
- Entry-system sessions
- Form submissions
- Shopping carts and checkout
- Payment security
- Fraud prevention
- Load balancing
- Cookie-consent preferences
Strictly necessary cookies can be blocked through your browser settings, but disabling them may interrupt account access, forms, and checkout because the requested service may not function without them.
We do not use strictly necessary cookies for advertising or unrelated analytics.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies remember selections that improve or personalize the website experience.
They may remember:
- Language
- Country or region
- Display settings
- Saved interface choices
- Video or media preferences
Where consent is required by applicable law, functional cookies are activated only after you provide that consent.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website and identify performance or usability issues.
They may collect information relating to:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on the website
- Navigation paths
- Referring pages
- Browser and device information
- Technical errors
- Website responsiveness
- General interaction patterns
Analytics information may include cookie identifiers, IP-derived information, and other online identifiers. Although reports may be aggregated, the underlying information is not necessarily anonymous.
Where required, analytics cookies will remain disabled until the visitor provides consent.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
These cookies may be used to:
- Measure campaign performance
- Understand referral sources
- Limit repeated advertisements
- Build or measure audiences
- Provide more relevant promotional content
- Understand interactions with advertisements
These cookies may enable third-party providers to recognize a browser or device across different websites.
Advertising and marketing cookies will only be activated where permitted and, where required, after consent.
Embedded-Media Cookies
Pages may contain content from services such as YouTube or Vimeo.
When embedded content is activated, the provider may receive information such as:
- IP address
- Browser and device details
- Page visited
- Video interactions
- Provider account information when the visitor is signed in
Where consent is required, connections to embedded-media providers and their non-essential cookies remain blocked until you provide consent or choose to load the content.
5. Services That Use Cookies
Noble Impact Awards Session
The NOBLEIMPACT cookie maintains your session, supports sign-in and form security, and carries entry and checkout activity between pages. It is an essential session cookie.
PayPal and Stripe
When you choose PayPal or Stripe to process a payment, you are directed to the selected provider. The provider may use cookies to authenticate transactions, prevent fraud, maintain payment sessions, and complete the requested payment under its own policies.
6. Cookies Used by Our Service Providers
Payment providers may use session or persistent cookies when you access their services. Their own cookie and privacy information describes their cookie names, purposes, and durations.
The Noble Impact Awards website does not currently enable Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, advertising trackers, or embedded YouTube or Vimeo players.
7. Managing Cookie Preferences
You can review, block, or delete cookies through your browser settings. The Noble Impact Awards website currently uses only its essential session cookie and does not provide an optional-cookie preference center.
If non-essential cookie technologies are introduced, this policy will be updated and consent controls will be provided where required before those technologies are activated.
8. Browser Controls
Most browsers allow users to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block some or all cookies
- Receive notifications before cookies are stored
- Control cookies for individual websites
Browser controls allow you to manage cookies placed by this website and by external services.
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent account access, entry submission, checkout, payment, or other website functionality from operating correctly.
9. Cookie Duration
The NOBLEIMPACT cookie is a session cookie, with no persistent browser expiry. It is normally removed when the browser session ends; browser session-restoration settings may retain session cookies.
Payment-provider cookie durations are determined by the provider. You can delete stored cookies at any time through your browser settings.
10. Withdrawing Consent
No optional-cookie consent selection is currently collected by the Noble Impact Awards website. You can delete or block its essential session cookie in your browser, although doing so may interrupt sign-in, entry submission, or checkout.
Where an external service relies on your consent, manage or withdraw that consent through the provider’s controls. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.
11. External Websites
The Noble Impact Awards website may link to external websites.
This Cookie Policy does not govern cookies placed independently by websites that visitors access through an external link. Visitors should review the privacy and cookie information provided by those websites.
12. Changes to This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated to reflect changes in technology, website functionality, service providers, or applicable requirements.
When this Cookie Policy is updated, the revised version will be published with a new effective date. Where a change materially affects your cookie choices, we may ask you to review or renew your preferences.
13. Contact Us
Questions concerning this Cookie Policy may be sent to:
Email:
iaa@iaaawards.org
Legal address:
International Awards Associate Inc.
Office Suite 1320, Level 13(C), Block 4,
Financial Park Complex Labuan,
Jalan Merdeka,
87000 Federal Territory of Labuan,
Malaysia