Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and what benefits they allow while using our website. This is to be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which can be found here and explains how we use personal information.

If you do not accept our use of cookies, please disable them, following our guidance below.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites save on your computer to:

• understand and save users' preferences for future visits
• keep track of advertisements
• compile data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer a better experience

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you turn cookies off, some of the features that make your site journey more efficient may not function properly. It will not affect the user's experience, which makes your site experience more efficient, but it may not function properly.

What cookies do we use on our website?

• Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting 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 the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Our site uses two types of cookies, session and persistent. Session cookies are only stored during your active session with us; upon closing your browser, they will be removed from your system. Persistent cookies have a specified lifespan and are not removed from your system upon closing your browser, and are kept for future visits.

Turning cookies off/changing your cookie settings

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

You may opt out of Google’s analytics cookies by visiting Google’s opt-out page - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.