Use of Cookies

Persistent Cookies: These Cookies stay on your computer or device after your browser has been closed and lasts for a time specified by the Cookie. We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the website.

Session Cookies: These Cookies only last as long as your online session, and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.

Strictly Necessary/ Technical: These Cookies let you use all the different parts of our websites. Without them, services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided. Some examples of how we use these Cookies are: To enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our websites.

Functional: We may use these Cookies to help us personalise the websites to you by remembering your preferences and settings. For instance, we may use these for remembering if you visited the website before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you, or for remembering how you customised the Websites setting like colour, font size and layout.

Performance / Analytical: These help us understand how people are using the websites so we can make it better and improve the performance. We may use first and /or third-party cookies, like Google Analytics for this. Some examples of how we use these Cookies are to track what pages are most frequently visited, to track what locations our visitors come from. Or if you sign up for a newsletter or fill out a contact form these Cookies may be correlated to you.

Advertising: Some websites use advertising networks to show you specially targeted adverts when you visit. These networks may also be able to track your browsing across different sites to show you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the websites for this purpose, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our websites.

Other tracking technologies: Some websites and emails may use things like web beacons, clear GIFs, page tags and web bugs to understand how people are using them and to target advertising to them.

They usually take the form of a small, transparent image that is embedded in a web page or email to record how you interact with them. They work with cookies and capture data like your IP address, when you viewed the page or email, what device you were using and where you were. They are used to help website and app publishers to better analyse and improve their services and to target advertising based on your browsing behaviour and interests.