Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A “Cookie” is a data file that is created and stored on your computer’s hard drive when you visit our Services, and it allows our Services to identify your web browser, for example. Cookies facilitate user preferences, allowing a website to remember the user. Cookies can also be used in order to allow for our Site to function properly.
How we use cookies
We use Cookies to track how our users access and use the services offered on our website, to learn when and how users visit the website, to learn which search terms are used, and to learn which websites direct you to the Services.
The Cookies we use can be categorized into the following groups:
Cookies | Type/Category | Purpose |
Essential | Necessary | These are Cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, Cookies that facilitate login and access actions to enter a user account and enable you to log into secure areas of our website. Specifically, we use essential Cookies, which allow you to access and use our Services, and which allow us to deliver those Services to you. For example, when you visit our website and login to your user account, we use Session ID Cookies and Javascript check Cookies. |
Non-Essential | Functional | These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). |
| Performance | We use performance Cookies that allow us to track site usage. This allows us to learn more about how users use the Services so that we make changes and improvements, as necessary. In particular, they allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors. |
| Analytics | Analytics cookies help us track how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. |
| Advertising | Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. |
Most web browsers automatically accept strictly necessary Cookies. You can decide if and how your web browser will accept Cookies other than strictly necessary Cookies by configuring your preferences or options in your browser or as noted under “Accepting or rejecting Cookies” below. You may refuse to accept Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your web browser. If you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site.
Third parties
Please note that the following third parties may also use Cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party Cookies are likely to be analytical Cookies or performance Cookies or targeting Cookies:
- In order to deactivate the use of third party advertising Cookies, please visit the Privacy Tools page to manage the use of these types of Cookies.
- We do not share information collected by the Cookies with any third parties.
Change settings from within your browser
Our cookie acceptance notification makes it easy for you to enable and disable all non-essential Cookies but will not stop all Cookies from other websites being set. To do this you may change your settings from within your browser by going to the “help” function on most browsers. If you choose to have your browser refuse Cookies, then it is likely that some areas of the website will not function properly when you use or visit them. The instructions for these vary from browser to browser and they may change from time to time as new versions are released. Here are some links to instructions for the most common browsers:- Microsoft Internet Explorer – Click here for Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Mozilla Firefox – Click here for Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome – Click here for Google Chrome
- Safari – Click here for Safari
