What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded and may be stored on any of your internet enabled devices e.g. your computer, smartphone or tablet - like a memory for a web page.
This means we automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:
the internet domain and IP address from where you access the Service;
the type of browser software and operating system used to access the Service;
the date and time you access the Service;
if you linked to the Service from another website, the address of that website; and
the pages you enter, visit and exit from the Service.
Our Privacy Policy sets out full details of the other information we collect and how we use your personal information.
How We Use Cookies
We use the following cookies:
Login related cookiesWe use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
Site preferences cookiesto set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third-party Analytic Service Provider
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You should refer to the third parties’ own cookie and privacy policies for information about how they may use your information.
In particular, we use Google Analytics cookies to obtain an overall view of visitor habits and visitor volumes, and to help improve the overall experience of our Service.
We use Google Analytics, a third-party web analysis service provided by Google Inc, which uses “performance cookies” and “targeting cookies” to analyze how you use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, this website uses Google Analytics with the feature of ' IP Anonymization ', which means that Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union.
On behalf of us, Google will use the information collected for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to us. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as described above. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB# . You may disable the use of Google Analytics by using the link disable Google Analytics. This link creates an opt-out cookie which prevents the further processing of your data. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google's help pages and privacy policy. If you do not accept the use of these cookies, we cannot guarantee how our Website will perform for you.
You can find more information about the Google Analytics cookies here:https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie usage .
Besides Google Analytics, we also use Facebook Insight to help us know better our website page performance, like demographic data about our audience. With Insight, we can use understand how people are engaging with our page, view metrics about our page's performance. Please note that we do not merge personally-identifiable information with the non-personally identifiable information collected through any third-party analytics service.
You can learn more on how Facebook to collect and use your cookies from https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
For more information about how to do this, please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/clear-cookies-installed.html , or follow the 'Help' option in your internet browser for more details.
To block Google Analytics cookies specifically, you can install the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” provided by Google. If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies may affect all users of that computer.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
