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Cookie Policy

What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored in your computer’s memory and hard drive when you visit certain web pages. They are used to enable websites to function or to provide information to the owners of a website.

Why do we use cookies?
Cookies help us to provide customised services and information. For example, we use cookies on our Website to collect anonymous traffic data and also to improve your experience with the Website (e.g. to keep you logged in if you request this). In broad terms, we use cookies on our Website for the following purposes:

Analytical purposes: We use analytical cookies that allow us to recognise, measure and track visitors to our Website. This helps us to improve and develop the way our Website works, for example, by determining whether site visitors can find information easily, or by identifying the aspects of our Website that are of the most interest to them. For these purposes, we may store the following:

•the name of the domain from which you accessed the internet
•the date and time you accessed our Website
•the internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our Website
•the pages you accessed while visiting our Website
•the device from which you accessed our Website
•the location from which you accessed our Website

In addition, we use a third party service providers to provide certain analytics services to us in connection with the operation of the Website, including (without limitation) the collection and tracking of the data and information listed above. We may disclose visitor data, including personally identifiable information, to enable those third party service providers to provide such services. Such data may be sent to those third party service providers and their local overseas suppliers, where the standard of data protection may be lower than the country in which you reside.

Usage preferences: Some of the cookies on our Website are activated when visitors to our sites make a choice about their usage of the site. Our Website then ‘remembers’ the settings preferences of the user concerned. This allows us to tailor aspects of our sites to the individual user.

Session management: The software that runs our Website uses cookies for technical purposes needed by the internal workings of our servers and application. For instance, we use cookies to keep track of information about a user’s session and determine which options or pages to display in order for the site to function.

Functional purposes: Functional purpose cookies store information that is needed by our applications to process and operate. For example, where requests within an application involve multiple stages, cookies are used to store the information from each stage temporarily, in order to facilitate completion of the overall request.

Your cookie preferences
To make full use of our Website, your computer or mobile device will need to accept cookies, as our sites will not function properly without them. In addition, cookies are required in order to provide you with personalised features on our Website.

Third party cookies.
When you visit our Website, you may receive cookies that are set by third parties. For example, you may receive a cookie set by Google. These cookies are used for the purposes described in the “Why Do We Use Cookies?” section of this policy. We do not control the setting of these third party cookies, so we suggest you might wish to check the third party Website for more information about their use of cookies and how to manage them.

Amending cookie preferences
If you wish to remove cookies set by our Website from your browser in the future, you may delete them. The instructions for removing cookies from your computer or mobile device depend on the operating system and web browser you use. Please note, however, that withdrawing your agreement to the use of cookies on our sites will impair the functionality of the sites.