For almost any modern website to work properly, it needs to collect certain basic information about its users. To do this, a site will create files known as cookies – small text files that are stored on computers of the users – the site visitors. These cookies are designed to allow the website to recognise its users. This is especially useful when revisiting the site as these cookies allow the recognition of users and their preferences on the website, and to authorise other websites to recognise these users.
Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the Internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID and the contents of your shopping cart… Thus, they help you navigate between pages more efficiently. They also help ensure that the advertisements that you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Some data collected is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to improve user experience.
3. How do we use cookies on our website?
Our pages use different types of cookies.
Some of our sites may display content from external providers (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter). To view this third-party content, you must first accept their specific terms and conditions. This also includes their cookie policy, over which we have no control.
We use Google Analytics to obtain data related to website traffic (e.g., number of visitors, pages visited by visitors, time spent on the site). We may also use third-party cookies to help us with market research, improving site functionality and providing support on the website.
You can adjust your browser settings to block the use of third-party cookies. This can affect the functionality of the website or parts thereof. For more information on existing cookie policies of third parties, visit their websites:
5. How to control cookies and their use
If you want to change how your browser uses cookies, including blocking or deleting cookies from any website, you can do so by changing your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to control the use of cookies through the browser settings. You can, for example, accept or reject all cookies, or have your browser prompt you each time it wants to save a cookie. At any time, you can also delete the cookies stored by your browser. The procedure for deleting cookies from your browser depends on the kind of browser you are using. To find out how to remove cookies from a particular browser, see the instructions on www.aboutcookies.org with details on how to control and delete cookies in most browsers.