To make this website work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your computer, tablet, or device. Most other websites do this too. We use cookies to store information, improve your browsing experience, and expand the functionality of our website.

 

1. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file, web beacon, or similar technology that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. A cookie may be temporary and expire at the end of your browsing session or remain in the cookie file of your browser after you leave the website. For example, it enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

 

2. How do we use cookies?

We use cookies in the following ways:

 

Remembering your preferences with respect to the website, related products, services, or language.

To enable content or services on the website for you

Remembering your previous use of the website and gathering usage data (for instance, to be used for improving the website or marketing).

Where relevant, cookies may allow us to remember your user ID so that you do not have to input it every time you visit our websites.

Measuring the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns (web contacts, newsletters, direct mailing, and advertising campaigns) and determining your activity related to such marketing campaign (for example, responding to a marketing campaign). We may use cookies from third parties to accomplish this.

Allowing you to share certain information on our websites via social media. We may also use cookies from third parties to accomplish this.

In the course of this use, our cookies may collect and store your personal information. We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personal data and only use this personal information in accordance with our privacy policy. We also only retain personal information as detailed in our Privacy Policy. Please view our Privacy Policy here.

 

3. How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

 

You should be aware that disabling cookies may affect the appearance of our websites on your computer, tablet, or device. In particular, it may prevent access to any secure areas of our websites, where relevant. Disabling cookies may prevent the use of portions of our website or prevent certain parts of our website from functioning correctly.

 

4. Third party sites

Our website contains links to third party sites. These third party sites are not operated or secured by us. Your use of these third party websites is pursuant to the use rights, policies, and security of those individual third party sites. As a result, we recommend that before any use of these third party websites you review the relevant policies (including the website’s cookie policy).