Cookies Policy

Version number: 1.0
Effective date: 22 February 2021

1.   We and/or other companies use cookies and other tracking technologies on our website. A cookie is an identifier (a small file of letters and numbers) that is sent to your web browser.  Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the website owner or others. Some are temporary “session” cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser only until your browser is closed. Whereas persistent cookies stay for longer (depending on the lifetime of the specific cookie). For further information on cookies, including how to use your browser to block them and how to delete existing cookies, visit: www.allaboutcookies.org. Our site’s functionality will be limited if you configure your browser to reject cookies.

2.   We ourselves may place the following types of cookies:

3.  Companies which provide us with a service also place cookies. Some of these cookies (e.g. from Google) may involve certain information, such as your name and contact details and/or the IP and web address of the page you’re visiting, being sent to the company concerned. Below is a summary of the kinds of cookies used together with details about who places them and where you can go to get more information and to opt out (where possible):

Analytics cookies
These kinds of cookies recognise and count the number of website visitors as well as providing other information about the visit such as duration, route through the website and where the visitor came from. This information helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users find what they need easily. These cookies are provided by:

•  Google Analytics (“GA”)  More information:

-   Google’s overview of GA data practices and safeguarding
-   how to specifically opt out from GA cookies
-   Google’s use of its partners’ data

Advertising cookies
These kinds of cookies are typically used to personalise ads on this or other sites based on your use of our site, to measure ad effectiveness (for example, how often you click on or view ads and whether you go on to buy something from the advertiser) and to stop you being shown the same ad repeatedly. These cookies are provided by:

•   Google (including Analytics Ad Features / AdSense / Doubleclick)

-   how Google uses cookies and other technologies in advertising including how to opt out of advertising cookies
    (this explains how ad personalisation works)
-   Google’s use of its partners’ data

Note that there are various places where you can go to opt out of many companies’ advertising cookies in one go including some or all of the above:

-   www.networkadvertising.org/choices
-   http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
-   http://optout.aboutads.info

Affiliate cookies
These kinds of cookies allow third-party companies to determine where traffic to their websites has come from links on our website.

ShareThis cookies
Our website includes social media sharing, analytics, market research and targeted advertising cookies set by ShareThis designed to enable sharing via social media (Facebook, Twitter etc). ShareThis requires us to tell you the following: “We may allow third-party companies, including ad networks, to serve advertisements, providing other advertising services and/or collect certain information when you visit our website.  Third-party companies may use pseudonymized personal data (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visit to this website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you.   To learn more about Interest-Based Advertising or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit [the opt out websites mentioned above under Advertising Cookies].”  More information:

•   ShareThis’s privacy policy including further information about opting out of receiving ShareThis cookies.