What are cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you select to agree at the banner that is displayed to you during the first time you visit our website. You may accept or decline being tracked by indicating your preference for this banner. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of the Website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve the Website.

How do we use cookies?

Some of the common uses for our cookies are as follows:

  • to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us analyze the use of the Website and to improve the way our Website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • to identify and authenticate a user across different pages of our Website, within our own Website, in a session or across different sessions. This is so that you do not need to provide a password on every page you visit; and
  • to be able to retrieve a user’s previously stored data, for example, information that the user previously submitted to the Website, so as to facilitate reuse of this information by the user.
  • to personalize the website for you, including targeting advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.

Cookies in use

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser. For specific details about the cookies used, please visit our cookies table.

We use the following categories of cookies:

Necessary: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function and are enabled by default at the time you access the Website. Those cookies enable us to offer you the best possible experience while using our Website.

Functionality: These cookies are used in order for us to understand how you use the Services, and provide you with certain functionalities of the Services, e.g remember your preference on the site such as language, region, username etc.

Analytics: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.

Advertising: We use these cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you or are used by third parties in order to provide you with relevant advertising.

We also use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

Session cookies: last only for the duration you browse the website and are deleted automatically once you quit your browser.

Persistent cookies: are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser. Some cookies may store information for less than 24 hours and other may store information up to 24 months or more.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

We don't control those third party websites, but you can find more information on how to opt out from those on their privacy policies.

What are your choices regarding cookies?

Necessary cookies, which are required for the core functionality of the website, are enabled by default automatically when you access the Website.

For all other categories of cookies used, which are not necessary for the site to operate you can expressly consent on their use by clicking “accept” or “ignore” on the cookie banner which is set on the Website.

Additionally you can also decide whether or not to accept cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all cookies that are already on your computer. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.

Where can you find more information about cookies

To explore what cookie settings are available to you, look in the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu. To find out more information about cookies, including information about how to manage and delete cookies, please visit https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ or http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

If you have any questions or comments about our Cookies Policy please contact: [email protected].

Last updated June 2024.