Guide to Cookies

System Optimization Through Cookies: Cookies are crucial for our system's operation; they remember information about your device and usage, enhancing your experience. Information such as your computer's IP address, browser type, and demographic details are stored. This helps if you are a registered user or navigating from a third-party site. Cookies are fundamental for verifying user identity and improving overall system interactions.

Functional Cookies: How They Aid Our Site

There are two categories of cookies:

  • Technically necessary (essential) cookies, ensuring basic website functions
  • Technically non-essential cookies, supporting website performance
Some web pages use cookies, which are small text files stored on your computer by your browser. These files do not harm your computer or contain viruses, and they enhance website usability, effectiveness, and security.

Most cookies used are "session cookies", automatically deleted after your visit. Others remain on your device until manually deleted. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on subsequent visits.

You can adjust your browser settings to manage cookie acceptance, including allowing cookies only in specific cases or disabling them entirely. Browser-specific information can be found at the provided links.

Disabling cookies may limit website functionality. For more detailed information on cookies and their usage on this website, please consult our Cookie Consent Tool accessible via the Privacy Policy.

Use of Technically Necessary (Essential) Cookies

We use cookies necessary for providing expressly requested services by the user, storing the following data:

  • Consent management
  • Current language selection
Technical service providers assist in website operation and maintenance, acting as our processors. Storage duration details are available in our Cookie settings.

Providing this personal data is neither legally nor contractually required but essential for website service and functionality.

Use of Technically Non-essential Cookies

We also utilize cookies analyzing user browsing behavior to enhance website efficiency and appeal. The legal basis for processing is your consent.

Technical service providers assist in website operation and maintenance as our processors. Further details on recipients and cookie functionality/storage duration are available in our Cookie settings.

Providing your data is voluntary, based on your consent. However, full website functionality may not be available without it. Consent can be revoked at any time through the Cookie settings.

Using Websites Linked but Not Affiliated

We use features and services provided by third parties that may set cookies on our behalf. Commonly such services are embedded on our web pages to provide functionality such as video players and social media sharing tools. These third party services may set their own cookies which we cannot control or access.

For example these services allow us to provide a personalised experience based on your previous visits or location, allow you to easily comment on our blog posts using your Facebook account, to engage with social tools or to conveniently prefill fields in our online forms.

Advertising and marketing cookies

These cookies are used to measure advertising effectiveness and to deliver content that is relevant to your interests. They may be used to deliver behavioural/targeted advertising on other websites you visit or to highlight content and services we feel are of interest to you based on your activity on our websites and/or other websites within our advertising networks.

Cookie Management

You can change your cookie settings by reviewing your internet browser’s cookie options. We have provided more information below on how to adjust those settings and opt out of the collection of your personal information using cookies or other technologies.

Cookie Settings

  • You can use the settings within your browser to control the cookies that are set on your computer or mobile device. However, please be aware if you set your browser to reject or block cookies, all or parts of our Sites may not be functional or accessible to you.
  • You may choose to change your browser settings to opt-out of cookies.
  • To opt out of interest-based ads on mobile devices, please follow these instructions for your mobile device.To learn more about limiting ad tracking using this identifier, visit the settings menu on your device.
  • To opt-out of location tracking when using our apps, you can use the settings of your device.

General Provisions

Email Open Tracking

Our emails may use a web beacon pixel to understand if you open our emails and interact with the contents, such as clicking on links. This helps us tailor our communications to better match your interests. If you prefer not to be tracked, you can read the email in plain text or disable images.