Information about our use of cookies
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. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing
to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and
numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you
agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard
drive.
We use the following cookies:
·
Strictly necessary
cookies. These are cookies that
are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example,
cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
·
Analytical/performance
cookies. They allow us to
recognise and count the number of visitors and to see 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.
·
Functionality cookies.
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us
to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your
preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
·
Targeting/retargeting
cookies. These cookies record
your visit to our website, the pages you visit and have visited, and the links that
you follow when browsing the Internet. We will use this information to make our
website, both during and after your visit, more relevant to your interests. We
may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the
individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table
below:
Cookie
name |
Cookie
type |
Purpose |
SESSION_ID |
Session |
Stores information in the form of a
session identification that does not personally identify the user |
__utma |
Persistent |
Used to distinguish users and
sessions. Used by Google Analytics. |
__utmt |
Session |
Used to throttle request rate. Used by
Google Analytics. |
__utmb |
Session |
Used to determine new sessions/visits.
Used by Google Analytics. |
__utmz |
Persistent |
Stores the traffic source or campaign
that explains how users reach our site. Used by Google Analytics. |
__utmv |
Persistent |
Used to store visitor-level custom
variable data. Used by Google Analytics. |
Please note that third parties
(including, for example, advertising networks, affiliated websites and
providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use
cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be
analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the
setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some
cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies
(including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our
site.
Except for essential cookies, all
cookies will expire after 24 months.