Cookie policy

Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies.

Our website uses cookies 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 site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

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. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

including:

CookieConsent – Remembering if you have accepted our cookie policy or not.
Cookie_notice_accepted – Remembering if you have accepted our cookie policy or not.

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

We use:

• _ga – Google Analytics – Privacy Policy – We use this to see how you found our site, and the content you view whilst on it.
• _gat – Google Analytics – Privacy Policy – Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
• _gid – Google Analytics – Privacy Policy –Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
• collect – Google Analytics – Privacy Policy –Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
• _gali Google Analytics – Privacy Policy –Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
• IDE – Google Analytics – Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

• Targeting 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 the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
• Third Party Functions. Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Our site includes the following which uses cookies:

• YouTube – Privacy Policy powers the videos on our site
• Google – Privacy Policy
• ds/ga-audiences – Google AdWords – Privacy Policy – Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.
• ads/user-lists/# – Google AdWords – Privacy Policy –Used by Google AdWords to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
• NID – Google AdWords – Privacy Policy –Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
• PREF – Google AdWords – Privacy Policy – Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE – Google – Privacy Policy – Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
• YSC – Google – Privacy Policy – Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
• Facebook – So we can track advertising on Facebook and the following visit son our websites.

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Blocking cookies. You block cookies 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.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 30 DAYS.