Comprehensive Details on Cookies
Role of Cookies in Website Functionality: Cookies serve as small pieces of data stored on your device, essential for enhancing the responsiveness of our site. These cookies assign a unique identifier to each visitor, enabling us to track user interactions anonymously. We respect your privacy and do not access any personally identifiable information unless you voluntarily provide it. It's important to note that third-party ads on our site may also place cookies, which are beyond our control.
Navigating Through Our Cookie Usage
We use the following types of cookies on our website for the following purposes:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the core functionality and operation of our website such as page navigation and cannot be switched off in our systems. They also include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. If you disable these cookies via your browser settings certain parts of the website will not function for you. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Analytical/performance cookies and third party cookies. These cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide, improve the performance of our website and help us better understand our users experience and needs. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it (including what links are chosen to click and how much time is spent on which pages) and see if you get any error messages. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring any errors are fixed and that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use third party analytics service on our website, which provide third party web analytics services and user behaviour analytics services, to help us analyse user behaviour including how visitors use the website so as to optimise the user website experience and create a better overall experience. Further information about these partners can be found here and via the link set out below in relation the individual cookies we use on our website.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website, for example by remembering the cookies you have consented to. This enables us to personalise our content for you and to check that certain functionality is working on our website.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and also show you relevant adverts on other sites. We may also share this information with third party service providers for this purpose so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
External Tracking Mechanisms and Cookies
Managing Cookies from Third Parties: Our website hosts cookies set by third parties, which we do not control. It is advisable to check the privacy and cookie policies of these entities to understand how they handle cookies and the data they collect. Furthermore, you can disable all third-party cookies through your browser settings. For these changes to take effect, please refresh your page or navigate to another page on our site after altering settings.
Operational Limitations Without Cookies
In jurisdictions that require informed consent for storing and accessing cookies or other information on an end user's device, you must ensure, in a verifiable manner, that an end user provides the necessary consent before you use any Business Tools to enable us to store and access cookies or other information on the end user's device.
Other Policies
Email Interaction Tracking
Our emails might include a web beacon pixel which helps us determine if our emails have been opened and how you interact with links within the email. We utilize this information to enhance the relevance of our communications. If you prefer not to have this tracking pixel, you may choose to view emails in plain text or disable image loading.
Adjustments to Policy Protocols
We may occasionally make changes to this Cookies Policy to mirror adjustments in our practices or in response to new legal or regulatory requirements. We advise you to review this policy periodically to remain informed of the latest changes.