cookies to make our websites easier to use and to help tailor content to you. This policy is intended to inform you about what cookies are, what cookies we use and to help provide you options on how to manage or delete them.

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What are cookies?

Cookies are tiny pieces of code that are sent to your browser the first time you visit our website. Cookies remain in your computer or mobile device and enable our server to provide a number of features to help the website operate effectively and to improve your experience when you use the website as a returning visitor.

How does it work?

Your browser tells our server whether any cookies files were downloaded onto your device, and after our server connects to the cookies we are able to analyze certain information that cookies files provide us. 

Cookies are used to enhance your user experience enabling us to see your past actions and preferences on the website, analyze this information, and provide you with more relevant information on services you are currently using or may use in  future. 

In addition, cookies enable behavioral advertising. That means that they provide an opportunity for you to see relevant ads.

Which types of cookies does the website use?

We uses the following types of cookies files when you enter our website:

Categories of cookiesDescription
Essential (Strictly necessary) cookiesThese cookies ensure the website delivers you information and services securely and optimally. You cannot opt out from the use of these cookies, as they are essential to the website’s performance.
Performance (analytical) cookiesPerformance cookies are used to gather statistics about the use of the website in order to improve the performance and design of our services. For these purposes, performance cookies collect information about your device type, operating system type, browser type, domain, other system settings, IP address, referring URLs, information on actions taken on the website and the dates and times of your visits, as well as the country and time zone in which your device is located.
These cookies are provided by our third-party analytics tool providers, Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics, and the information obtained through these cookies will be disclosed to, or collected directly by, these third-party service providers. For more information about Google Analytics’ or Adobe Analytics’ cookie and information practices (including the types of cookies used and their expiration date), please visit the links below:
Google Analytics
Adobe Analytics
Advertising cookiesThese cookies record your visit to our websites, the pages you have visited and actions you have taken. We will use this information to make our advertising displayed on other platforms (by third party advertising providers) more relevant to you. We may share this information with third parties for this purpose, for example, we may serve you a relevant advertisement based on your browsing history with our website. We also use third party cookies so we can personalize our advertisements to you and to help us analyse our customers’ behavior. Our third-party advertising providers set anonymous cookies on other websites that we advertise on. If you receive one of those cookies, we may then use it to identify you as having visited that site if you later visit our website. We then personalize our advertisements to you based on this information.
Functionality cookiesThese cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

How do we deal with the data collected through the cookies?

If you visited our website and came here, the cookies consent message was the first message that you were likely to see that prompted you about the fact that cookies are used and active on our website. In most cases, we ask you about your consent to install cookies. This does not apply only to the strictly needed cookies, which are essential cookies.

Data that we collect with the cookies are processed in accordance with provisions of our Privacy Policy. For instance, this data can be accessed by our employees, subcontractors and affiliates.

How to manage cookies?

Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. Click on the different category headings in the Cookies preference page to find out more and change our default settings. Please note, however, that if you turn some of the cookies off, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly since the services will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings.

Guidance on how to block website cookies on other browsers can be found below:

Firefox cookie management
Chrome cookie management
Safari cookie management