Cookie Policy

1. What happens when you visit the site

Every time you connect to the internet or, if you use an always-on connection, such as broadband or ADSL, when you boot up or restart your computer, you are automatically assigned a unique identifying number known as an IP Address. This IP Address, which contains information regarding the location of your computer on the internet (your country of origin) and the name of your internet service provider (“ISP”), is automatically logged by the site.

2. What is an IP address?

When you first started your internet session (i.e. your computer connected to the internet), your computer was automatically assigned a unique number (normally in the region of 9 or 10 decimal numbers), known as an IP Address. This is your computer’s unique address on the internet. Without an IP Address, websites would not be able to deliver their content to you given that they would not be able to find your computer on the internet. Since each time you disconnect and reconnect to the internet a new IP Address is automatically assigned to your computer, IP Addresses are not inherently capable of identifying you as an individual (at least, by themselves and not combined with other identifiers). An IP Address does, however, contain information regarding the location of your computer on the internet (your country), and the name of your ISP.

3. How do We collect your IP address?

Each time you visit a page on the site, your computer sends out a message asking for the requested content to be delivered. This message sent by your computer also encloses your IP Address as a form of “return address”, so that Our website may find your computer in order to send it that requested content. Our web-server automatically logs all these messages.

4. What do We do with your IP address?

When We log your IP Address, the data collected is grouped up with the other logged IP Addresses in order to provide Us with the statistics on the geographic location of visitors to Our website, how long they stay on the site, which are the most viewed pages and for other statistical reasons that may be relevant for Our business.

We gather your IP address automatically and store it in log files. These files also contain information relating to your browser type, ISP, operating system, date/time stamp, clickstream data and the files viewed on site. Collecting this type of information allows Us to generate aggregate information for the purposes of developing the site, including in terms of overall user trends and activities online (such as the number of unique visitors, pages accessed and viewed most frequently or the search terms entered). It also allows Us to administer the site, diagnose any potential server problems, analyse visitor trends and statistics, and generally helps Us to provide you with a better internet experience.

IP Addresses are not stored for longer than necessary for the above stated purposes.

1. What are ‘cookies’?

The site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. They allow Us to analyse trends and administer the site, to help Us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the site and to develop and improve the site at the same time.

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. A cookie enables the website to remember users that have already visited. Without a cookie, every time you open a new web page, the server where that page is stored will treat you like a completely new visitor. Cookies allow Us to remember your custom preferences such as your language preference and allow you to complete tasks without having to re-enter your information when browsing.

Cookies typically contain the name of the website that the cookie came from, the lifetime of the cookie as well as a randomly generated unique number. Websites typically use this number to ensure that you are recognised when you visit the website again, while you move from page to page within one website and that any information you have entered is remembered.

2. Which cookies do we use?

We use different types of cookies on our homepage, including:

• Session cookies that disappear when you log out and close the browser;

• Persistent cookies that remain on your device until you or your browser removes them or until they expire;

• Primary cookies that are associated with the domain you are visiting;

• Third-party cookies that are associated with a different domain than the one you are visiting.

In addition to the cookies listed above, we can also use other standard technologies, such as web beacons, web errors, clean gif, local storage objects (such as HTML5 and Flash), and scripts. They help to ensure the functionality described in this Policy.

Web beacons are typically a minute and transparent graphic image that is placed on a website or in an email. Web beacons allow the website to record the simple actions of the user opening the page that contains the web beacon. Since web beacons are the same as any other content on a web page, you cannot opt out or refuse them, however, these can be rendered ineffective by changing your browser’s cookie settings to refuse cookies.

3. Current cookies

Required / technical cookies
These cookies are required for the functioning of the website and cannot be disabled. They are usually installed only in response to the actions you make that constitute a request for services, for example, your privacy settings, logging on, or filling out forms.

You can configure the browser to lock or notify these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work. These cookies do not store personal data.

Performance / Analytics Cookie
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us find out which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors navigate the site. Some of the information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Functional cookies
These cookies allow the website to provide advanced functionality and personalization. They can be installed by us or third-party service providers.

If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these services may not work correctly.

Advertising cookies
These cookies can be installed through our site by our advertisers and other partners to personalize the content that you see. They can be used by these companies to create a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They often do not store personal information directly, but they are based on the unique identification of your browser and Internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will receive less relevant content to your interests.

4. What information do We collect from cookies

We use cookies in a variety of ways, including:

Security
We can use cookies to enable and maintain our security features and to detect malicious activity

Maintaining preferences and supporting additional features
Cookies can help you to fill out forms on our websites more easily.

Performance, analytics and personalization
Cookies help us to know how effective our websites are. They allow us to analyze the use of our websites, as well as personalize the content and experience provided to you. We also use cookies to understand, improve, develop and research products, functions and services for collecting, viewing, logging and getting technical information about you (such as event data), and for creating logs and records when accessing our web- sites from different devices, such as a PC or mobile device.

Marketing
We can use cookies to deliver marketing or advertising campaigns and track their effectiveness. Similarly, we can use cookies to collect information about your actions on our websites to provide you with ads based on your actions and interests. We may receive reports based on the use of cookies. Please note that we cannot control the actions of third-party ad servers and ad networks, therefore our Data Protection Policy does not apply in this case.

We do not use cookies to collect or store any personal information. We use the information that We gather in order to evaluate the website’s usage, content, navigability and composition. This statistical analysis allows Us to improve Our website, to generally make your internet experience more enjoyable and to provide a value-added service.

Please note that third parties (including 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 and performance cookies or targeting cookies.

5. Acceptance and blocking of cookies

You do not have to accept cookies to use Our website.

You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, and can even block or reject all or some cookies by activating the relevant setting on your browser. If you do block or reject cookies, you may still be able to access and use the site, but your ability to use some of its features and areas, together with the services that you connect to through the site, may be limited or may simply not function properly.

Majority of Internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but some browsers may allow you to change your settings to turn off cookies (and other tracking tools) or to request an acceptance before using cookies from websites that you visit. These browsers can also allow you to delete cookies that you already have. Please refer to the technical information of your browser or mobile device for instructions on how to delete or turn off cookies.

Preference managers
You can customize your preferences for most cookies on our website through the Cookie Approval Manager. You can also use this tool to view a list of third-party cookies on our Site. Please note that this tool will not be able to block all cookies and does not work with third-party sites.

Third-party extensions
There are several browser extensions that allow you to choose which cookies are hosted in your browser, and help you to control the tracking. Please note that these extensions are made by third-party companies, and not optimized, so we are not responsible and cannot provide technical support for these products.

Personalized advertising
You can opt out of receiving certain personalized advertisements from companies that are members of the network advertising initiative.

Further information on cookies can be found on various sites such as www.allaboutcookies.com.

6. Social Media features and widgets

The site includes social media features. These features may collect your IP address, which pages you are visiting on the site, and may set a cookie to enable this feature to function properly.

Any personal information that you provide via such social media applications may be collected and used by other members of that social media application and such interactions are gove ed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide the application. We do not have control over, or responsibility for, those companies or their use of your information.