Cookie Policy
This cookie policy explains what cookies are, how the website uses cookies, how third parties we work with may use cookies on the websites, and your choices regarding cookies. Please read this cookie policy in conjunction with our Privacy Notice, which sets out further details on how the website uses personally identifiable information and your various rights.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the website or a third party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you. Essentially, cookies are a user's identification card for the website's servers. Web beacons are small graphic files linked to our servers that allow us to track your use of our site and related features. Cookies and web beacons allow us to better serve you and personalise your experience on our site.
Cookies can be either ‘persistent’ or ‘session’ cookies.
How does the site use cookies?
When you use and access the site, the site may place a number of cookie files in your web browser.
The site uses or may use cookies and/or web beacons to help us determine and identify repeat visitors, the type of content and sites to which a user of our sites links, the length of time each user spends in a particular area of our sites, and the specific features that users choose to use. To the extent that cookie data constitutes personally identifiable information, we process such data based on your consent.
We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on our various sites, and we use different types of cookies to operate these sites:
- Essential cookies: Necessary for the operation of the site(s). We may use essential cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of user accounts, or provide site features.
- Analytical/performance cookies: Allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the site(s) when they are using it. This helps us improve the way the site(s) work.
- Functionality cookies: Used to recognise you when you return to the site(s). 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 cookies: Record your visit to the site(s), the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the site(s) more relevant to your interests.