What are Cookies and Why Do We Use Them?

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Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you access the internet. This website, like most other major websites, uses cookies to enable users to navigate around the site and to tailor the content to fit the needs of visitors. Cookies also help us to improve the user experience. Without cookies enabled, we cannot guarantee that the website and your experience while visiting are as intended.

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None of the cookies used on our websites collect personally identifiable information about you.

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This website uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire at the end of a browser session, while persistent cookies are stored on your equipment between browsing sessions until expiry or deletion.

 

Types of Cookies

• Geolocation cookies: These cookies are used to find out the country you are in when you request a service. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help guide content to your location.

• Form value cookies: These cookies are used to store information that users provide when completing forms and the save button is pressed. The stored data is only used to refill the form when the user returns to the same page.

• Analytical cookies: These web analytics cookies help us to learn more about how you interact with our content so that we can better shape our site. They collect information about how visitors use our site, which site the user came from, the number of each user's visits, and how long a user stays on the site. This information does not record the individual user's specific details, and it is used to create web statistics usage at an aggregated level. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. For more information, please visit Google Analytics.

 

How to Disable Cookies

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by us or any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how. Please note that disabling cookies may impact your ability to use certain parts of the website.

 

We comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable laws and regulations regarding the use of cookies.