Cookies are small data files or pieces of code, which often include a unique identifier, that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. When you visit a website, the website will request to store this text file on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Other information gathered through cookies may include the date and time of visits and how you are using the particular website.
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may also use other, similar technologies to cookies known as “web beacons”, "tracking pixels", or "tags"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our website or opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
For the purposes of the remaining sections of this Cookie Statement, we refer to all cookies and similar technologies using the above features as “cookies”.
Cookies set by us, the website owner, are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by third-party website operators are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits our website and also when it visits certain other websites.
Information about you collected by those third-party cookies will be shared with the relevant third party. Please refer to the relevant third-party website operator’s privacy notice for more details about the information they collect and how they use it.
Please note that our website may link to third-party websites which are not operated by us. Where you follow links from our website to the website of a third party, that website may place different cookies on your device. You should check the relevant privacy notice and/or cookie notice for more information about how that third party uses cookies.
You should be aware that applications you use to access our website, such as your website browser, may also place cookies on your device when visiting our website, or other website. An example of this would be where you sign in to Google Chrome using a Google Account. We do not have control over these third-party cookies, so you will need to manage these cookies in the settings of the relevant applications.
For more details on cookies and similar technologies, please visit All About Cookies.