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This Cookies Policy (hereafter the “Policy”) explains how cookies are used on this website. The Policy may be amended from time to time. In the event it is amended, we will let you know by appropriate means such as by posting the revised Policy on this website with a “Last Updated” date. You may choose and manage at any time your preferences regarding the placement of Cookies on your computer by clicking on the preferences button of the pop-up window which appears on your screen in relation to our Cookies Policy.

1. What are Cookies?

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of your browser or your computer's hard disk, so that the website can distinguish you from other users on the website. These may include which webpages you have visited, choices you have made from menus, any specific information you have entered into forms and the time and date of your visit.

2. Types of Cookies

There are two main types of cookies:

• Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that expire at the end of a browser session; that is, when you leave the website. Session cookies allow the website to recognise you as you navigate between webpages during a single browser session and allow you to use the website most efficiently. For example, session cookies enable a website to remember that a user has placed items in an online shopping basket.
• Persistent cookies: in contrast to session cookies, persistent cookies are stored on your hardware equipment between browsing sessions until expiry or deletion. They therefore enable the website to "recognise" you on your return, remember your preferences, and tailor services to your preferences.

In addition to session cookies and persistent cookies, there may be other cookies which are set by a website, in order to provide the operator or third parties with information.

3. Our use of Cookies

We currently use the following types of cookies on this website.

We use session cookies to:

• Help us maintain security and verify your details whilst you use the website as you navigate from page to page, which enables you to avoid having to re-enter your details each time you enter a new page.

We use persistent cookies to:

• Help us recognise you as a unique user when you return to our website so that you do not have to input your details multiple times as you move between our pages or services.
• Remember how you have customised your use of this website, such as your preferred currency and time zone.
• Collect and compile anonymous, aggregated information for statistical and evaluation purposes to help us understand how users use the website and help us improve the structure of our website.

In specific, our use of cookies is performed for the following purposes:

• 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.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These 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 and in enabling web pages to be loaded more quickly when a user requests the download of a large file.
• 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 or currency).
• 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.

In addition to cookies which send information to us, we also use cookies which collect information and send it to third parties. These are called ‘third party cookies’. An example of this is Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to help collect and compile information such as the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the webpages they have visited. You may visit Google’s website for an overview of Google’s privacy policy. Where this website allows such cookies to be set or you access other websites from this website using the links provided, the operators of these websites will use cookies in accordance with their own cookies policy, which may differ from ours and over which we have no control.

Some of our cookies may collect and store your personal information, such as your name or email address. We are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy and will ensure that all personal information collected by us is kept and treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy. A link to our Privacy Policy is available within the footer of this website.

4. Management of Cookies preferences on this Website

To manage the use of cookies on this website, you may click on the preferences button of the pop-up window which appears on your screen in relation to our Cookies Policy.