Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?Cookies, also known as browser cookies or simply cookies, are small files that a website stores on your device (computer, phone, tablet etc.) while you visit our site. These files contain information about your interaction with our website and help us to provide you with a better user experience.

Why do we use Cookies?We use cookies for various purposes, including:

• To remember your preferences when visiting our website
• To track how often users access certain pages or features of the website
• To understand which websites you came from before reaching ours (for analytics and advertising)

Types of Cookies

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary to allow us to provide our basic services, such as:

• Remembering your login credentials for future visits
• Accessing secure areas of the site without re-authenticating each time
• Managing technical issues with our website's functionality

These essential cookies do not have an expiry date and will be deleted once you log out or close your browser.

Session Cookies

Session cookies are used to keep track of user activity while they remain on a single page, session. They expire as soon as the user closes their browser.

Examples include:

• Temporary login sessions
• Shopping cart contents

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies store information between multiple visits and can be either first-party (from our website) or third-party (from external sites). These cookies can persist for weeks, months or years until they expire. We use them to:

• Store user preferences over an extended period of time
• Track repeat visitors' interactions with specific content

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow users to adjust their experience while visiting our site.

Examples include:

• Language setting: storing the language chosen by a visitor for future visits
• Theme or layout preference: allowing users to customize their view of the website

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how many people visit certain pages on our website, which devices they are using, and what actions are being performed.

These include:

• Pageview counts (e.g., Google Universal Analytics)
• Time spent interacting with individual sections or buttons
• How visitors reached the site initially (referrers)

Preference and Language Settings

Cookies can store a visitor's preference for certain settings. For instance:

• Saving user language choice across multiple visits
• Enabling keyboard shortcuts on specific pages

Login/Session Continuity

When you log in, we create cookies to enable session management between page loads or browser reloads.

Device Recognition

These are typically set by third-party advertising partners who may also collect your data through their own privacy policies and terms of service agreements.

Examples include:

• Cookie IDs (cids)
• Advertising preference centers
• Ad retargeting pixels

Security-related Cookies

Cookies can store information related to security features or anti-fraud measures such as:

• CAPTCHA scores to identify human interactions from automated scripts
• IP blocking or whitelisting for specific ranges of devices

Browser Storage Technologies

Modern browsers offer additional storage options beyond cookies, like localstorage and indexedDB. We use these technologies to optimize performance on different types of websites.

Examples include:

• Page caching with localstorage keys
• Indexdb sessions stored locally without sending user data back and forth

Third-party Integrations

Other companies (third-parties) may store their own cookies or scripts when you visit our site, including analytics libraries, social media integrations, content sharing modules and advertisements.

Examples include:

• Google's AdSense advertising technology
• Facebook's Like button with JavaScript-based tracking

Marketing/Communication Preferences

Some third-party services will set persistent cookie IDs based on user interaction. We encourage all visitors to manage their preferences within those platforms according to the service providers' own terms of use and opt-out policies.

Cookie Consent ManagementWe follow EU ePrivacy Directive, which recommends explicit consent for storing non-essential cookies when you first visit our site or modify browser settings regarding third-party cookies.

You may opt out of cookies in various ways, including adjusting browser settings to block all third-party tracking and delete current stored information on the next shutdown. Note that restricting certain functionalities can impair user experience.

To avoid this issue while also keeping essential performance features, there are a range of aggregated analytics solutions (like Google Analytics) which maintain users' data within anonymous identifiers instead of assigning specific identities, although their effectiveness might depend heavily on how carefully users configure privacy settings and whether browser plugins remain up to date with the latest tracking protections available.

Technical Diagnostics & Performance OptimisationWhen cookies are disabled:

• Analytical tools may not collect any user interaction metrics.
• The ability to remember some session preferences will be affected.