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You can usually use the browser that you are viewing us through (or application settings) to enable, disable or delete cookies. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser or mobile telephone (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” settings). Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access secure areas of our site and other parts of our site may also not work properly.
You can find out more information about how to change your browser cookie settings at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Some third parties may use Advertising Cookies to help gather information about your browsing activity so that they can deliver website advertising to you that is relevant to your interests.
The types of cookies used on our site can generally be put into one of five categories: Strictly Necessary; Analytics; Functionality; Advertising; and Social Media. Cookies may be presented by us (first party) and others (third parties).
Five Categories of Cookies
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. These cookies don’t gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
- Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how people are using our sites, for example which pages are visited the most often, how people are moving from one link to another and if they get error messages from certain pages. These cookies don’t gather information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is grouped together with information from other people’s use of our sites on an anonymous basis. Overall, these cookies provide us with analytical information about how our site is performing and how we can improve.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make and tailor our site to provide enhanced features and content to you. For example, these cookies can be used to remember your user name, language choice or country selection, they can also be used to remember changes you’ve made to text size, font, and other parts of pages that you can customise.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a site and this information may be shared with other organisations such as advertising partners. This means after you have been to our site you may see some advertisements about our services elsewhere on the Internet.
- Social Media Cookies: To enhance your internet experience and to make the sharing of content easier, some of the pages on our sites may contain tools or applications that are linked to third-party social media service providers such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Through these tools or applications, the social media service provider may set its own cookies on your device. We do not control these cookies and you should check the social media service provider’s website for further details about how they use cookies.
First Party Cookies; Third Party Cookies
- “First party cookies” are cookies that belong to us and that we may place on your PC or device.
- “Third-party cookies” are cookies that another party may place on your PC or browsing device when you visit our site. We believe it is important for you to know what third-party cookies we use on our website and services. Here is a list of the third-party cookies that we currently use. As we develop and improve our services, we may use other third parties that are not listed below.
Google Analytics
These cookies allow us to see how you use our website and mobile application so that we can improve your experience. We encourage you to read the Google Privacy Policy. If you do not want data reported by Google Analytics, Google permits you to opt out by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Google AdWords
These cookies allow our vendors to serve ads based on your past visits to our sites and for remarketing purposes. Google may use these cookies and other tracking technology to show you our ads across the internet. Google permits you to opt-out of Google’s use of these cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
Social Media Features
Our website may include social media features, like the Facebook recommend button or interactive mini-programmes that run on our site. If you use these features, they will collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Features may be hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature, not by our privacy policy.
OptinMonster
These cookies allow us to display offers that might be of interest based on your browsing history and behaviour. You can read the OptinMonster Privacy Policy here.
Do cookies ever expire on change?
The length of time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your browsing device after you have finished browsing until they expire or are deleted. Information about the cookies we use may be updated from time to time, so please check your browser on a regular basis for any changes.