Cookies

Our website uses cookies that help us to continually improve your experience. Also known as browser cookies or tracking cookies, cookies are small, often encrypted text files, located in browser directories. Cookies are created when a user's browser loads a particular website. The website sends information to the browser which then creates a text file. Every time the user goes back to the same website, the browser retrieves and sends this file to the website's server.

Managing Cookies

For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies are on your computer and how to manage and delete them, visit allaboutcookies.org who have detailed instructions on how to:

• Manage cookies on your computer.
• Delete cookies installed on your computer.

Types Of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies
User authentication - “remember me” functionality on the login control
API authentication - to enforce API security for services such as Google Maps and YouTube
Message or notification - so that it shows only once after the user closes it

Preference Cookies
Also known as “functionality cookies,” these cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, what region you would like weather reports for, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in.

Statistics Cookies
Also known as “performance cookies,” these cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymised. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited.

Marketing Cookies
These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad. These cookies can share that information with other organisations or advertisers. These are persistent cookies and almost always of third-party provenance.

For more information about types of cookies, how these are regulated between the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, visit gdpr.eu/cookies/.

Cookies & Third-party Services

Google Analytics
Google analytics provides us with information on traffic on our website and how our users interact with it. This information includes: browser type, manufacturer and version number, operating system, network location & IP address, time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page, referring website, demographics & interest reports, search engine query used that brought you to our website.

YouTube
We deliver videos on our website using YouTube which is also a google service. For more information about how Google handles data, visit policies.google.com/privacy.

Google AdWords & Doubleclick-branded Services
We use Google AdWords and Doubleclick-branded Services to serve advertisements on our website. For information on how Google handles data, visit policies.google.com/technologies/ads