What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
- First party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
- Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit our website you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as language) for a certain period of time.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymous statistics about the browsing experience on our site.
Analytics cookies
We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users.
The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (data gathered does not identify you personally).
Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose.
Third-party cookies
Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. If you view any third party content
their cookies will be installed on your device. If you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.
How can you manage cookies?
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).