What are cookies?
Our website uses cookies and other similar technologies (together “cookies") to ensure that you receive the best experience. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer (if you agree) when you use our website. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website and, where appropriate, serve you relevant advertisements.
Exploration of Cookies We Employ
We use the following types of cookies on our website for the following purposes:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the core functionality and operation of our website such as page navigation and cannot be switched off in our systems. They also include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. If you disable these cookies via your browser settings certain parts of the website will not function for you. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Analytical/performance cookies and third party cookies. These cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide, improve the performance of our website and help us better understand our users experience and needs. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it (including what links are chosen to click and how much time is spent on which pages) and see if you get any error messages. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring any errors are fixed and that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use third party analytics service on our website, which provide third party web analytics services and user behaviour analytics services, to help us analyse user behaviour including how visitors use the website so as to optimise the user website experience and create a better overall experience. Further information about these partners can be found here and via the link set out below in relation the individual cookies we use on our website.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website, for example by remembering the cookies you have consented to. This enables us to personalise our content for you and to check that certain functionality is working on our website.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and also show you relevant adverts on other sites. We may also share this information with third party service providers for this purpose so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
Use of Cookies to Enhance Features and Services
Managing Cookies from Third Parties: Our website hosts cookies set by third parties, which we do not control. It is advisable to check the privacy and cookie policies of these entities to understand how they handle cookies and the data they collect. Furthermore, you can disable all third-party cookies through your browser settings. For these changes to take effect, please refresh your page or navigate to another page on our site after altering settings.
Advanced User Interaction Monitoring
Our online environments incorporate web beacons, also known as clear GIFs, to track and analyze visitor behavior. This helps us and our affiliated third parties to enhance user engagement and service quality.
Detriments from Disabling Cookies
Please note: Disabling, removing, or blocking cookies may turn off some of the features of our Online Platforms that make your experience more efficient, and some Online Platforms may not function properly as a result. Further, if you opt out of having your information collected and used by us and our digital marketing partners for interest-based advertising purposes, you will continue to receive ads, but such ads will not be tailored to your specific interests based on web viewing data collected from your device over time and across unaffiliated websites.
Supplemental Rules
Collection of Usage Data
Usage Data is information collected automatically through your interaction with our Service or the technical functioning of our Service infrastructure, such as page visit duration. We collect details such as your device's IP address, browser type, specific pages you visit, the frequency and duration of visits, interactions with page elements, and other relevant analytics to enhance user experience and service efficiency.
Modifications to Our Policy
As our digital landscape evolves, we occasionally adjust this Policy to reflect the integration of new technologies and improvements in our services. We recommend that you check this document frequently to understand our updated practices.