Key Facts About Cookies
Utilizing Cookies for Improved Site Functionality: Cookies are essential tools that store data on your device to enhance website responsiveness and user interaction. By assigning a unique identifier to each visitor, we track user interactions in a non-intrusive way. Our site also respects your privacy by not accessing personal information unless explicitly provided by you. Note that third-party advertisers might also use cookies to monitor interactions with their ads.Types of cookies used and purpose
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 Practices and Cookie Use
Social Media Engagement Notice: Engaging with our content via social media platforms (like liking or sharing our posts) might result in those platforms recording your activities and possibly setting cookies to track these interactions. If you prefer to opt out from such tracking, please consult the specific settings and instructions provided by each social media platform.Selecting Your Preferred Cookie Settings
Control Over Non-Essential Cookies: Upon entering our site, a cookie banner will appear at the top of the screen. You can disable or enable non-essential cookies through this banner. Ensure JavaScript is active to view and adjust your cookie preferences. By default, all non-essential cookies are disabled.Miscellaneous Provisions
Additional Details on Data PracticesOur Privacy Policy provides further details on how we collect, use, store, and disclose your personal data. Should you have any concerns about your personal data's handling, or if you wish to access your data, please reach out to our Privacy Officer via email.