Like most websites, our Website uses cookies and web beacons, which we deploy with your consent (if required), principally to enhance your viewing experience.
What are cookies?
Cookies are files or pieces of information that may be stored on your computer (or other internet-enabled devices, such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit the Website. A cookie will usually contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come from, the “lifetime” of the cookie (i.e. how long it will remain on your device) and a value, which is usually a randomly generated unique number.
Two types of cookies may be used on the Website – “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”. Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave the Website. A persistent cookie remains on your device for much longer or until you manually delete it (how long the cookie remains on your device will depend on the duration or “lifetime” of the specific cookie and your browser settings).
The system may also use web beacons which are similar but not identical to cookies in the way they operate.
What do we use cookies for?
We use cookies to make the Website easier to use and to better tailor our web presence and products to your interests and needs. Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities and experience on the Website. We also use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our web properties and to help us improve web structure and content. We cannot identify you personally from this information.
Certain information (which may be personal data) – including computer and connection information, browser type and version, operating system and platform details and the time of accessing the website – will be automatically collected thorugh our use of cookies. This information helps us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalized service. It helps us:
- [To estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- To store information about your preferences, so we can customize our site according to your individual interests.
- To speed up your searches.
- To recognize you when you return to our site.
- We occasionally carry out market research and business development. A third party might help us to do this and they may send a cookie or web beacon.]
The table below summarizes the different types of cookie we use on the Website, together with their respective purpose and duration (i.e. how long each cookie will remain on your device).
Cookies used on the Website:
Type of Cookie
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What do they do?
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Do these cookies collect my personal data / identify me?
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Cookie used and details
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Necessary
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Cookies that are essential to making the Website work correctly. They enable visitors to move around our website and use our features. Examples include remembering previous actions (e.g. entered text) when navigating back to a page in the same session.
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[These cookies do not identify you as an individual.
If you do not accept these cookies, it may affect the performance of our website.]
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[Insert names of necessary cookies used + details of what it is used for]
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Performance
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Cookies that help us understand how visitors interact with our web properties by providing information about the areas visited, the time spent on the website and any issues encountered, such as error messages. They help us improve the performance of our websites, alert of any concerns and more.
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These cookies don’t identify you as an individual. All data is collected and aggregated anonymously.
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[Insert names of performance cookies used + details of what it is used for]
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Functionality
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Cookies that allow our web properties to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) to provide a more personalized online experience.
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The information these cookies collect may include personally identifiable information that you have disclosed, such as a username, for example. We shall always be transparent with you about what information we collect, what we do with it and with whom we share it.
If you do not accept these cookies, it may affect Website performance and functionality and may restrict access to web content.
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[Insert names of functionality cookies used + details of what it is used for]
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Targeting / advertising
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Cookies that are used to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may be used to deliver targeted advertising or to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They also help us measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on the Website.
We may use these cookies to remember websites you have visited and we may share this information with other parties, including advertisers and our agencies.
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Most types of these cookies track consumers via their IP address so will collect some personal data.
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[Insert names of functionality cookies used + details of what it is used for]
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How can I control or delete cookies?
Not all cookies require consent to be placed on your device. Essential cookies do not require consent. Non-essential cookies do require consent. This is governed by privacy law. Some cookies and similar technologies maintain personal data. Some do not. You can find out more about this type of technology through your internet browser.
You may refuse to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser. Your browser will tell you in simple terms how to do this, usually through a ‘help’ section. If you are at all uncertain about how to do this, your browser manufacturer should be able to show you how. However, if you change the settings to refuse cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that the browser refuses cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
For cookies where we require consent (whether that requirement comes from eprivacy law or data protection law) we ask for this consent by a consent capture mechanism included in the banner you see when you first visit our Website. You are asked to take a positive action (such as click to “ACCEPT”, or through the continued use of our website) if you do wish to give your consent.
If you use different devices to view and access the Website (e.g. your computer, smartphone, tablet etc.), you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.