Cookie Policy

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files of letters and numbers that are placed on your computer or device by websites that you visit.  They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently and to provide information to owners of the website. Cookies allow a website to recognise the user’s device and store information about the user’s preferences or past actions.

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 and also allows us to help improve our website.

TYPE OF COOKIES

We use the following cookies:

Necessary

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

Functional

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

Analytics

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

Performance

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

Advertisement

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

Others

Other cookies are those that are being identified and have not been classified into any category as yet.

SESSION AND PERSISTENT COOKIES

Session cookies are temporary cookies which only exist during the time you use the website (until you close the browser after using a website).  Session cookies help websites remember what you chose on a previous page, avoiding the need to re-enter information and improve your experience.

Persistent cookies stay on your device after visiting a website, they help us identify you as a unique visitor.

LIST OF COOKIES WE USE

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

 

CONTROL OF COOKIES

You can choose which of these cookies you consent to us using when you use our website.  Once you have consented to the use of cookies, you can remove or reject cookies in your browser’s settings at any time, but this might affect the functionality and availability of the website.  We shall have no liability or responsibility for the content and cookies on any external or third party websites.

Cookies and similar technologies

You can set your browser to refuse browser cookies (other than those which are strictly necessary), or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. Our website provides the ability for you to confirm or change your performance and tracking cookie preferences by clicking on the “manage cookies” option displayed on the cookie banner on the landing page of our website or by returning to the cookie policy page on our website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly. Further information identifying the name of, uses of information collected by, and expiry dates of the cookies used by our website, together with further information to explain how to change your cookie settings can be found on our cookie policy page

Gifs, pixel tags and other similar technologies

GIFs (also known as pixels or web beacons) are small graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, but whereas cookies are stored on the hard drive of your device, GIFs are invisibly embedded on web pages.  We may use GIFs to track the activities of users of our services, gather statistics about the use of our services and to help us to manage content.  We also use GIFs in HTML emails to our customers to help us to track email response rates, to identify when our emails are read and to track if our emails are forwarded.

Analytics

We work with third party advertising partners, including Google, to reach individuals with more relevant content on and off our website and usage information related to our website and our ads and content. We use Google Analytics to evaluate the use of our website and services.  You can find more information on Google Analytics here.  This information is only processed in a way that does not directly identify anyone.  Google has developed a Google Analytics opt out browser add on for websites and you can find more information here

Analytics providers may use cookies and other similar technologies to perform their services and may combine the information they collect about you on our Sites with other information they have collected for their own purposes, this policy does not cover the use of data by third parties.

To disable Google Analytics cookies and to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en 

FURTHER INFORMATION

For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org