Cookies policy

For almost any modern website to work properly, it needs to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a site will create files known as cookies – which are small text files – on its users’ computers. These cookies are designed to allow the website to recognise its users on subsequent visits, or to authorize other designated websites to recognise these users for a particular purpose. Information collected by cookies is now classed as personal data.
Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the internet much smoother and more interactive.

We do our utmost to respect users’ privacy. We use cookies to monitor and improve our services.

Cookies do a lot of different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

These cookies are strictly necessary to enable you to move about the website and to provide certain features you have requested. For example, to save products or services that you have put into your cart. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use basic services. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet. There is no need for consent for the use of such cookies.

These cookies ensure that the website stores your choices (e.g. your user name, language and location) and offers enhanced and customised functions. For example, the site may offer local weather forecasts or traffic news through the use of cookies to store information on the location you are currently in, stores the changes in font size, font type and other parts of the website that are customizable and offer you requested services, such as viewing a video and putting up a comment to a blog. Data stored by these cookies may be anonymised and these cookies cannot keep track of your browser activities on other websites.

These cookies gather information on how you use the website. For example, which sites you visit most frequently and whether you are receiving error messages from them. These cookies do not compile information that would identify you. All data compiled by these cookies are aggregated and are therefore anonymous. These data are used only to enhance the site's functionality.

These cookies are used to (1) deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests; (2) limit the number of times you see an advertisement; (3) help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign; and (4) understand people’s behaviour after they view an advertisement. They are usually placed on behalf of advertising networks with the site operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a site and quite often they will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
Within these four categories, cookies are classified as either ‘Session’ or ‘Persistent’ cookies:

You would be informed of the types of cookies and other tracking technologies in use on our web sites via our cookie popup consent banner. The banner gives you the options of ‘opt in’ and ‘opt out’ of the various types of cookies, have access to the cookie settings and make subsequent changes to them if you change your mind.
The table below outlines the use of cookies on this site.

To find out more about cookies and how to set preferences, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you can install the following browser add-on - tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.