Introduction
Our website uses cookies. This policy has been put together to explain what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about them.
Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of (our website and services), we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
About Cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browsers. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies may be either ‘persistent’ cookies or ‘session’ cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain information that personally identifies a use, the personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies that we use
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Authentication – we use cookies to identify users when they visit our website
- Status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website
- Personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise our website for you
- Security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services in general
- Advertising – we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you
- Analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services
- Cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally
Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on.
How to turn cookies off?
If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer. You may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
Where can you learn more about cookies
You can learn more about cookies and the following third-parties websites:
- All about cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org