Cookie Policy
WHAT’S A COOKIE?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records
how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present
tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to
analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within
your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser
that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser
settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of
our site.
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our
website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are
only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. You consent to us
placing non-essential cookies on your computer or device by continuing to use our website with your
browser settings set to accept cookies.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by
a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the
expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the
web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal
information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from
cookies.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
• authentification – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our
website;
• status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;
• analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and
services;
• personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise
the website to you;
• cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more
generally; and
• security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts,
including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services
generally.
Some of our service providers also use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer
when you visit our website. These are the third party service providers that store cookies when you
visit our website:
• We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information
about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to
create reports about the use of our website. Google’s Privacy Policy is available here.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies,
but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.
For further information on how we handle personal information please refer to our Privacy Policy.