9.1 What are Cookies: A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our Services. When you visit a page on the Services it may generate any of the following types of cookies:
a. These cookies are required to save your session and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of the Services. They enable us to provide you with services you have specifically asked for and are essential for you to move around the Services and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Services. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided to you. We also use security cookies to ensure the security of the Services. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Services to you, you cannot refuse them. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, as described below in ‘Managing your cookies’. However, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Services.
b. Functionality Cookies: If you consent, we use functional cookies to allow the Services to remember choices you make on the Services (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) to provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They also do not gather any information about you that could be used for advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the Internet besides our websites.
c. Performance Cookies: If you consent, these cookies collect information about your visit and use of the Services, for instance, which pages you visit most often, and if you get error messages from such web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is only used to improve how the Services works. We also use these cookies to understand how our media campaigns work. This information is used to evaluate and improve the content of the Services and our campaigns and ultimately to improve user experience.
d. Analytics and Customisation Cookies: If you consent, we use these cookies, to help us understand how users access and use our services. The data collected typically includes information such as your IP address, your internet service provider, your web browser, the time spent on web pages, the links clicked and the advertisements viewed on those pages. We use this information to improve the Services and your experience, to see which areas and features of our services are popular, and for which visitors, and to count visits.
9.2 Other tracking technologies: We use other similar technologies to cookies on our Services such Web Beacons (also known as “clear GIFs”), which are transparent graphic images placed on a web page or in an email and indicate that a page or email has been viewed or tell your browser to get content from another server. We use web beacons to measure traffic to or from, or use of, our online forms, tools or content items and related browsing behaviour and to improve your experience when using the Services. We may also use customized links or other similar technologies to track hyperlinks that you click and associate that information with your Information in order to provide you with more focused communications.
Where we refer to ‘cookies’ in the reminder of this section, we are referring cookies or any other tracking technologies we use.
9.3 Consent to use tracking technologies and changing settings
We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our Services.
Most browsers allow you to see what cookies you have on your device and to clear them all or individually. To find out how to do this, go to allaboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a variety of browsers. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/.
9.4 Our use of cookies: N/A
9.5 Third party access to the cookies: N/A
