Information about our use of cookies
Our
website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This
helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and
also allows us to improve our site. [By continuing to browse the site, you are
agreeing to our use of cookies.]
A cookie
is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the
hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is
transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the
following cookies:
- Strictly necessary
cookies. These are cookies that are
required for the operation of our website. They include, for example,
cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a
shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance
cookies. They allow us to recognise
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 recognise you when you return to our
website. This enables us to personalise 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]
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.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies
will expire after a maximum of two years.