COOKIE POLICY

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other visitors to our website. This helps us to provide

you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.

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 will typically contain a record of the website which issued it, its own name, and a value which

is often a randomly generated unique number. A cookie will have a ‘lifetime’, which tells your browser

when to delete it.

TYPES OF COOKIES

Different cookies are used for different purposes. The most common ones are as follows:

• 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/performance cookies. They 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.

• 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).

• 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. We may also share this information with third parties

for this purpose.

There are also several different types of cookie. These are the most common ones:

• Session cookies. Session cookies only last for the duration of your website visit. A web browser

normally deletes session cookies when it quits.

• Persistent cookies. Persistent cookies will outlast user sessions. If a persistent cookie has its

maximum age set to 1 year, then, within the year, the initial value set in that cookie would be sent

back to the server every time the user visited the server. This could be used to record a piece of

information such as how the user initially came to this website. For this reason persistent cookies

are also called tracking cookies.

• Secure cookies. Secure cookies are only used when a browser is visiting a server via HTTPS,

ensuring that the cookie is always encrypted when transmitting from client to server.

• First-party cookies. First-party cookies are cookies set with the same domain (or its subdomain)

in the browser’s address bar.

• Third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are cookies set with different domains from the one

shown on the address bar (i.e. the web pages on that domain may feature content from a third-

party domain – e.g. Google Maps or YouTube). Privacy setting options in most modern web

browsers allow you to block third-party tracking cookies.

THE COOKIES WE USE

The table below provides an overview of the cookies used on our website, including details of who

sets each cookie, its purpose, when it expires, and, if relevant, how you can find out further information.