Cookie Statement

Type of Cookie

Description

Prior permission required 

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. For example, cookies that enable you to navigate our Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of our Website. 

If you have chosen to identify yourself to us, we may place on your browser cookies containing an encrypted, unique identifier. These cookies allow us to uniquely identify you when you are logged into our Website and our services and to process your online transactions and requests. 

No permission is required to place these cookies, as they have little or no effect on your privacy.

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). 

We and our third-party partners may also utilize HTML5 local storage or Flash cookies for these purposes. Flash cookies and HTML local storage are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. We also use Flash cookies, to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our Website to personalize your visit.

We only place functionality cookies on your device if we have your prior permission. 

Analytical cookies 

These cookies allow us to count the number of visitors to our Website and collect information about how visitors use our Website (e.g. which pages are visited most often and if any error messages are received from web pages). We use this knowledge to improve our marketing activities, as well as the quality, effectiveness and user-friendliness of our Website.

We use the Google Analytics service for this purpose. This is a web analytics service provided by Google inc. which uses cookies to show us how visitors found and explored our Website, and how we can enhance their experience. 

We only place analytical cookies on your device if we have your prior permission to do so. 

Third-party (advertising) 

cookies

We sometimes use cookies delivered by third parties to show you ads for our products and services that we think may interest you on any devices you may use and to track the performance of our ads. 

For example, in these cases, cookies remember information such as which browsers have visited our Website. The information provided to third parties does not include personal information, but this information may be re-associated with personal information after we receive it. If we are using one of its own cookie-related products on our own Website, then a cookie related to ads may appear on our Website under our or one of our affiliated company's names.

We also contract with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information from Web beacons (see below) on our Website, from emails, and on third-party sites. Ad networks follow your online activities over time and across different sites or other online services by collecting Website navigational information through automated means, including through the use of cookies. These technologies may recognize you across the different devices you use, such as a desktop or laptop computer, smartphone or tablet. Third parties use this information to provide advertisements about products and services tailored to your interests. You may see these advertisements on other sites or mobile applications on any of your devices. This process also helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. Third parties, with whom we partner to provide certain features on our Website or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity, use Flash cookies to collect and store information.  Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored.

We only place third-party advertising cookies on your device if we have your prior permission to do so. 

With third-party cookies we do not have control of the information provided by the cookie and we do not have access to this data. This information is entirely controlled by third party cookies as described in the respective policy. 

To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 local storage.