Cookie Policy
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we place on your computer if you agree to it when prompted by a banner displayed during your first visit to our website. You can accept or decline tracking by indicating your preference on this banner. These cookies help us distinguish you from other users of the website, enhancing your browsing experience and allowing us to improve our website.
How Do We Use Cookies?
We use cookies for several common purposes, including:
- Analytics: To recognize and count the number of visitors and understand how they move around the site. This helps us analyze the usage of the website and improve its functionality, ensuring users find what they are looking for easily.
- Authentication: To identify and authenticate a user across different pages of our website, both within a session or across multiple sessions. This eliminates the need to provide a password on every page you visit.
- Data Retrieval: To retrieve previously stored user data, such as information you submitted earlier, to facilitate the reuse of this data.
- Personalization: To personalize the website for you, including targeting advertisements that 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. We use the following categories of cookies:
- Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the website to function and are enabled by default when you access the website. They ensure the best possible experience while using our website.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies help us understand how you use the services and provide certain functionalities, such as remembering your site preferences like language, region, or username.
- Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, helping us measure and improve the site's performance. They inform us about the most and least popular pages and show us how visitors navigate the site. All data collected is aggregated and anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we won't know when you have visited our site.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies help display advertisements that are relevant to you or are used by third parties to provide relevant advertising.
We use both session and persistent cookies:
- Session Cookies: These cookies last only for the duration of your browsing session and are deleted automatically when you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your computer and are not deleted automatically when you close your browser. They may store information for various durations, ranging from less than 24 hours to up to 24 months or more.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies to report usage statistics, deliver advertisements, and more. We do not control these third-party websites, but you can find more information on how to opt-out in their privacy policies.
Managing Cookies
Necessary cookies, which are required for the core functionality of the website, are enabled by default. For all other categories of cookies that are not essential, you can consent to their use by clicking “accept” or “ignore” on the cookie banner displayed on the website. You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies, prevent new cookies from being accepted, or decide on acceptance for each new cookie. However, disabling cookies may require manual adjustment of preferences each time you visit a site and may impact the functionality of some services.
Where Can You Find More Information About Cookies?
To explore cookie settings, refer to the “preferences” or “options” section of your browser’s menu.
Last Updated: 1st August 2024
