Cookie Policy

USE OF COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains cookies and similar technologies we use and why on our websites and through our online services and how to contact us with any questions concerning this Policy.

By consenting to this Cookie Policy, you agree that we can distinguish you from other users of our website for the purposes set out below. This helps us to provide you with good user experience, tailored content and it also allows us to continually improve our website. For example, we can recognise and remember important information that will make it more comfortable for you to browse our website or use our apps such as preferred settings.

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?

There are three main types of cookies:

  • Session cookies: specific to a particular visit and limited to sending session identifiers (random numbers generated by the server) so you don’t have to re-enter information when you navigate to a new page or check out.  Session cookies are not permanently stored on your device and are deleted when the browser closes;
  • Persistent cookies: record information about your preferences and are stored in your browser cache or mobile device; and
  • Third party cookies: placed by someone other than us which may gather data across multiple websites or sessions.

WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies.These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and use its features. The information collected relates to the operation of our website (e.g. website scripting language and security tokens) and enables us to provide you with the service you have requested.
  • Analytical / performance cookies.These cookies collect information on how users use our website, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages and how you arrived at our website. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our website. These cookies are sometimes placed by third party providers of web traffic and analysis services. We use Google Analytics. For information on how Google processes and collects your information and how you can opt out, please see the table below providing for a Google Analytics opt-out link.
  • Functionality cookies.These cookies are used to remember the choices you have made, for example the country you visit our website from, your language and any changes you have made to text size and other parts of the web pages that you can customise to improve your user experience and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. 
  • Targeting cookies.These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the information (including marketing information) displayed on it more relevant to Your interests and to measure the effectiveness of and marketing or information initiatives We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. They remember the other websites you visit and this information is shared with third party organizations.

OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

In addition to cookies, we use some other similar technologies as follows:

  • Web Beacons: small graphic images included on our website or emails or those of third parties to provide analytics information
  • Local shared objects: these are sometimes called flash cookies and can be stored on your browser. They are used to maintain preferences and usage records.

COOKIES WE USE

Universal Analytics (Google)
1P_JAR (domain .gstatic.com)
1P_JAR (domain .google.com)
ANID (domain .google.com)
APISID (domain .google.com)
CONSENT (domain .google.com)
CONSENT (domain .gstatic.com)
DV (domain .google.com)
HSID (domain .google.com)

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

For more details please read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.

You acknowledge that where we allow third parties to drop cookies, we have no control over those cookies, or the data generated.  Please refer to the third party’s privacy policy for information on what information they collect and how they use it.  These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Additionally, when visitors request pages from our websites, our server log the visitor’s Internet Protocol address (“IP address”). Your IP address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of your query, enable us to better understand and improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of our websites for purposes of system administration, to infer a visitor’s geographic location, to track the use of our websites, and to identify a visitor when it is necessary to enforce compliance with our policies.

HOW TO CHANGE COOKIE SETTINGS?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘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.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. To learn about more disabling third-party Cookies, we invite you to consult the websites and Cookie policies of these third parties (links provided below), or to make use of your browser’s cookie management tools.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time.

If we change anything important about this Cookie Policy, we will notify you through a pop-up on the website for a reasonable length of time prior to and following the change. You may review the Cookie Policy by visiting the website and clicking on the “Cookie Policy” link.

Cookie Policy

USE OF COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains cookies and similar technologies we use and why on our websites and through our online services and how to contact us with any questions concerning this Policy.

By consenting to this Cookie Policy, you agree that we can distinguish you from other users of our website for the purposes set out below. This helps us to provide you with good user experience, tailored content and it also allows us to continually improve our website. For example, we can recognise and remember important information that will make it more comfortable for you to browse our website or use our apps such as preferred settings.

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?

There are three main types of cookies:

  • Session cookies: specific to a particular visit and limited to sending session identifiers (random numbers generated by the server) so you don’t have to re-enter information when you navigate to a new page or check out.  Session cookies are not permanently stored on your device and are deleted when the browser closes;
  • Persistent cookies: record information about your preferences and are stored in your browser cache or mobile device; and
  • Third party cookies: placed by someone other than us which may gather data across multiple websites or sessions.

WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies.These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and use its features. The information collected relates to the operation of our website (e.g. website scripting language and security tokens) and enables us to provide you with the service you have requested.
  • Analytical / performance cookies.These cookies collect information on how users use our website, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages and how you arrived at our website. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our website. These cookies are sometimes placed by third party providers of web traffic and analysis services. We use Google Analytics. For information on how Google processes and collects your information and how you can opt out, please see the table below providing for a Google Analytics opt-out link.
  • Functionality cookies.These cookies are used to remember the choices you have made, for example the country you visit our website from, your language and any changes you have made to text size and other parts of the web pages that you can customise to improve your user experience and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. 
  • Targeting cookies.These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the information (including marketing information) displayed on it more relevant to Your interests and to measure the effectiveness of and marketing or information initiatives We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. They remember the other websites you visit and this information is shared with third party organizations.

OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

In addition to cookies, we use some other similar technologies as follows:

  • Web Beacons: small graphic images included on our website or emails or those of third parties to provide analytics information
  • Local shared objects: these are sometimes called flash cookies and can be stored on your browser. They are used to maintain preferences and usage records.

COOKIES WE USE

Universal Analytics (Google)
1P_JAR (domain .gstatic.com)
1P_JAR (domain .google.com)
ANID (domain .google.com)
APISID (domain .google.com)
CONSENT (domain .google.com)
CONSENT (domain .gstatic.com)
DV (domain .google.com)
HSID (domain .google.com)

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

For more details please read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.

You acknowledge that where we allow third parties to drop cookies, we have no control over those cookies, or the data generated.  Please refer to the third party’s privacy policy for information on what information they collect and how they use it.  These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Additionally, when visitors request pages from our websites, our server log the visitor’s Internet Protocol address (“IP address”). Your IP address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of your query, enable us to better understand and improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of our websites for purposes of system administration, to infer a visitor’s geographic location, to track the use of our websites, and to identify a visitor when it is necessary to enforce compliance with our policies.

HOW TO CHANGE COOKIE SETTINGS?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘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.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. To learn about more disabling third-party Cookies, we invite you to consult the websites and Cookie policies of these third parties (links provided below), or to make use of your browser’s cookie management tools.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time.

If we change anything important about this Cookie Policy, we will notify you through a pop-up on the website for a reasonable length of time prior to and following the change. You may review the Cookie Policy by visiting the website and clicking on the “Cookie Policy” link.