COOKIES POLICY

 

Introduction

Cookies are small text files based on your hard drive each time you access a website. We may use cookies to facilitate your internet sessions, to maintain security and to improve our websites.

In particular we use Google Analytics’ cookies to measure use of and improve our website and support advertising features as detailed below.

You can disable cookies on your computer by changing the settings in preferences or options in your menu browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our site.

Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site and by continuing to use our site you consent to the use of cookies.

 

Types of Cookies

The cookies used have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie Guide. A list of the kinds of cookies used on our website by category are set out below:

  • Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our Site and use its features, including accessing secure areas of our website.

  • Analytical / Performance cookies

These cookies collect and analyse information about how visitors use our Site. The service collects anonymous information such as the number of visitors to our Site, where customers are from, behavioural patterns and pages visited on our Site. For more information, see https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

  • Functionality cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activities on other websites.

  • Other third-party cookies

We also use third-party cookies (such as Google DoubleClick) to run Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These cookies gather website visitor data (such as age, gender and interests) and allow us to optimise website content and marketing. They do not collect any personally identifiable information.

 

About Google Analytics Advertising Features

This website implements and uses Google Analytics Advertising Features which includes the following:

  • Remarketing with Google Analytics;
  • Google Display Network Impression Reporting;
  • DoubleClick Platform integrations;
  • Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.

Third party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the internet. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. These cookies are used to collect data about the websites and individual pages that users visit and are typically used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.

You can find out more information about how Google uses you data by reading Google’s privacy policy located: at https://policies.google.com/privacy

You can opt-out or customise the use of Google Analytics Advertising Features via Ads Settings found at: www.google.com/settings/ads. This lets you opt out of ads shown to you based on factors such as your interests, previous visits to other websites, and demographic details on your computer’s browser. You can also prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by downloading the Google Analytics’ Opt-out Browser Add-on, which can be found at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We will not facilitate the merging of personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google adverting product or feature without your prior affirmative consent.

 

Your consent

By submitting your information, you consent to the use of that information as set out in this policy. If we change our cookie policy we will post the changes on this page, and may place notices on other pages of the website so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how to use it at all times. We will also e-mail you should we make any changes so that you may consent to our use of your information in that way. Continued use of this service will signify that you agree to any such changes.