Cookies

We use cookies to improve your user experience, optimise our websites and render them more user-friendly.

By using the website, you agree to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites you visit.  They are widely used in order to allow websites to work properly, remember your preferences, improve user-experience and provide information to the owners of the site.

Learn more in-depth information about how cookies work by visiting: https://ico.org.uk/

The different categories of cookies used and their purpose

We mainly use cookies that are necessary for the proper functioning of the website, as well as for providing you with an enhanced user-experience. These types of cookies may include, but are not limited to:

Necessary cookies - These cookies are essential in order to enable you to navigate around the webpages and the various features. Without these cookies, services you may have requested cannot be provided.

Preferences cookies - These cookies allow our website to remember information that changes how the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region you are in.

Statistic cookies - These cookies collect information about how you use the website, for example, which pages are visited the most often as well as if any error messages may have occurred.  The information collected remains anonymous and does not include any identifiable information about the website visitor.

Marketing cookies - These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests.  These are generally placed by advertising networks, such as Google.  We do not have third party advertising on our website, so we do not use targeting cookies for advertising purposes.  We may use them, however, for gathering analytics and intelligence about the site.  These cookies only use anonymous identifiers and have no way of associating identifiable users.

Third party cookies - Some cookies we use are from third party companies, which provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our websites.  The type of information collected by these cookies mostly includes how a visitor has interacted on our website.

This site uses Google Analytics, which is an analysis tool provided by Google Inc. (“Google”).  They use their own cookies to help us better analyze how users use this site, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on, and how long you are on our site.  For more information on how Google collects and uses information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policy.

Other user tracking technologies

This site contains electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called trackers).  They allow us to count the number of users who clicked on an advertisement for our products or services from a third party site. Web beacons collect only specific information, such as the cookie number, time and date of visit, and a description of the page on which the web beacon is installed.

It is not possible to opt out of web beacons used on web pages, you will not be able to accept or decline them. However, because we use web beacons together with cookies, you can limit their use by deleting cookies or changing their settings in your browser.

Managing cookies settings

You can manage your cookies settings to clear or block specific cookies, such as third party cookies, or all cookies. However, if you block all of the cookies that we use, it may affect your user experience and result in the website becoming unusable..

You can access these settings via our cookie banner, or in your browser by going to the browser settings; this option should be available for most browsers.  Please keep in mind that by clearing all cookies, your website preferences may be lost, including your ability to opt-out enabling cookies as this function itself requires the placement of a cookie on your device.

 

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Date of last update : July 24, 2019