Cookie Policy

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service.

• Cookies are used to improve your experience while visiting our Website. Where applicable thisWebsite uses a cookie control system allowing you on your first visit to the Website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on your computer/device. This complies with legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from you before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on your computer/device.

• Cookies are small files saved to the user’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows our Website, through its server, to provide users with a tailored experience.

• If you wish to prevent the use and saving of cookies from this Website on to your computer’s hard drive you should take necessary steps within web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from our Website. However, if you instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service.

What cookies do we use?

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

• Necessary/Essential Cookies
  • Type: Session Cookies
  • Administered by: Us
  • Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.

• Functional Cookies
  • Type: Persistent Cookies
  • Administered by: Us
  • Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.

• Cookies Policy/Notice Acceptance Cookies
  • Type: Persistent Cookies
  • Administered by: Us
  • Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

• Tracking and Performance Cookies
  • Type: Persistent Cookies
  • Administered by: Third-Parties
  • Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.

• Analytics
  • Our Website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how you use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to the user’s hard drive in order to track and monitor engagement and usage of the Website, but will not store, save or collect Personal Data. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information.
  • Other cookies may be stored on your hard drive by external vendors when our Website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer.
  • If you would like further information about cookies and how they are used, you can visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
  • When we email you, such emails may contain tracking facilities. Activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include but is not restricted to: the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity.
• Retargeting/Advertising Cookies: Retargeting/Advertising Cookies collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so that we can provide advertising that we believe is relevant to you. For more information about this, please see the section below titled “Behavioral Remarketing”

 

• Third Party Cookies and Social Plugins: Some content or applications, including advertisements, on our Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, application providers, and social media sites such as Facebook’s Like Button. As a result of this, you may send to the third party the information that you are viewing on a certain part of our Website. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you access our Online Interfaces. They may collect your Personal Data, including your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, then the third party may not know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, then the third party may be able to link information or actions about your interactions with our Online Interfaces to your account with them. Please refer to the third party’s privacy policies to learn more about its data practices. They may also use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising and other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

 

How can you control cookies?

We will only issue Browser Cookies of individuals in the European Union and use other Tracking
Technologies when you have affirmatively consented to us doing so by accepting the cookie
banner.

• Browser Cookies:
  You can control and manage cookies in various ways. You may refuse to accept browser cookies
  by activating the appropriate setting in your browser. Please bear in mind that removing or
  blocking cookies can impact on your user experience and parts of our Online Interfaces may no
  longer be fully accessible.

 

• Other Tracking Technologies:
  You cannot remove or block web beacons, as they form part of the content of the web pages
  rather than placing information on your computer. However, because they work in conjunction
  with cookies, turning off cookies will prevent web beacons from tracking your activity. The web
  beacon will record an anonymous visit, but cookies will not be recorded.

 

• Analytics cookies:
  You can opt-out of having your anonymized browsing activity within Online Interfaces recorded
  by analytics cookies. Manage your cookie settings at any time by visiting Cookie Settings in the
  footer of EU-facing websites.

 

Depending on your browser, you may decline our cookies. You can still use our Website if you
decline our cookies, but some parts of our Website may not work properly by doing so.

Please refer to your browser Help instructions to learn more about managing cookies and visit
http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/

NOTE: We do not control any of the above links and are not responsible for any choices you make
based on information found on these websites or using these mechanisms or the continued
availability or accuracy of these mechanisms.

Behavioral Remarketing

We use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Website. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Website.

• Google Ads (AdWords)
• Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.
• You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
• Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collectedand used by Google Analytics.
• For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

• Facebook
• Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
• You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page:
  https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
• To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook:
  https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
• Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising
  established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other
  participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA
  http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada
  http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe
  http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

 

How we respond to Do Not Track Signals

We also may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online
activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a
preference that they “do not track” your online activities.

At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or
how we use that information based upon whether such signal is broadcast or received.