Cookies 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.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are placed on the computer of a website user to provide the website operator with information about use of our site. They are used to enable websites to function or to provide information to the owners of a website.
Some cookies are deleted when you close down your browser. These are known as session cookies. Others remain on your device until they expire or you delete them from your cache. These are known as persistent cookies and enable us to remember things about you as a returning visitor.
Why do we use cookies?
In broad terms we use cookies on our site for the following purposes:
- Analytical purposes: Analytical cookies allow us to recognise, measure and track users of our site in anonymous form. The information collected includes the number of visitors to our site, where visitors have come to our site from and the pages that they have visited. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by determining whether site visitors can find information easily, or by identifying the aspects of websites that are of the most interest to them.
- Usage preferences: Some of the cookies on our site are activated when visitors to our sites make a choice about their usage of our site. The site then 'remembers' the settings preferences of the user concerned. This allows us to tailor aspects of our site to the individual user.
- Session management: The software that runs our websites uses cookies for technical purposes needed by the internal workings of our servers. For instance, we use cookies to distribute requests among multiple servers, authenticate users and determine what features of our site they can access, verify the origin of requests, keep track of information about a user's session and determine which options or pages to display in order for our site to function.
- Functional purposes: Functional purpose cookies store information that is needed by our applications to process and operate. For example, where transactions or requests within an application involve multiple workflow stages, cookies are used to store the information from each stage temporarily, in order to facilitate completion of the overall transaction or request.
Your cookie preferences
To make full use of our site, your computer or mobile device will need to accept some essential cookies, as our site will not function properly without them. In addition, cookies are required in order to provide you with personalized features on our site.
We also use cookies to track, compile and analyse usage, navigational and other statistical information that allow us to understand how people use our site, and to help us improve the structure and content of the site. However, you have the option to elect to disable non-essential cookies such as these when accessing our site by opting to allow strictly required cookies only.
Third party cookies
We may also work with third-party service providers who may set cookies on our site. These third-party service providers help us track and analyse your use of our site and to optimise our site and improve your experience. For these purposes, analytics cookies collect information about your device type, operating system type, browser type, domain, other system settings, IP address, referring URLs, information on actions taken on the site and the dates and times of your visits, as well as the country and time zone in which your device is located. These cookies are provided by third-party analytics providers, including Google Analytics and the information obtained through these cookies will be disclosed to or collected directly by these third-party service providers.
For more information about these third-party providers' cookies, please visit analytics.google.com.
Amending cookie preferences
You may restrict or disable the use of cookies through your web browser. Each type of web browser offers ways to restrict and delete cookies. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our Site(s) and functionalities may not work. For more information on how to manage cookies, please visit the appropriate links below: