Cookie policy

How Cookies Work: Cookies are tiny files downloaded to your device that assist in enhancing site navigation, personalizing your experience, and gathering analytical data to improve site functionalities. We may use both our own cookies and those set by third parties to collect comprehensive data about site interactions and tool usage. Users have the option to manage or disable cookies through their browser settings. Note that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our services.

What do we use cookies for?

We use the following types of cookies on our website for the following purposes:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the core functionality and operation of our website such as page navigation and cannot be switched off in our systems. They also include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. If you disable these cookies via your browser settings certain parts of the website will not function for you. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
• Analytical/performance cookies and third party cookies. These cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide, improve the performance of our website and help us better understand our users experience and needs. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it (including what links are chosen to click and how much time is spent on which pages) and see if you get any error messages. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring any errors are fixed and that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use third party analytics service on our website, which provide third party web analytics services and user behaviour analytics services, to help us analyse user behaviour including how visitors use the website so as to optimise the user website experience and create a better overall experience. Further information about these partners can be found here and via the link set out below in relation the individual cookies we use on our website.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website, for example by remembering the cookies you have consented to. This enables us to personalise our content for you and to check that certain functionality is working on our website.
• Marketing 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 any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and also show you relevant adverts on other sites. We may also share this information with third party service providers for this purpose so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

How can cookies be managed/blocked?

• When you first visit our Sites, where required by law, you will have the option to give your consent to the analytics, advertising and functional cookies we use, or to refuse your consent to our use of those cookies.
• You can withdraw or modify your consent to our use of cookies at any time. If you no longer wish to receive cookies you can use your web browser settings to accept, refuse and delete cookies. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" settings).
• Please note that if you set your browser to refuse cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of the Sites.

Please keep in mind that, without cookies, you may not have access to certain features on our Sites, including access to your profile/account and certain personalized content. Removing all cookies from your computer could also affect your subsequent visits to certain websites, including our Sites, by requiring that, for example, you enter your login name when you return to that website. Please note that even if you exercise any of the choices described above, you will still see ads, but they will not be based upon the information collected through these tracking technologies, and therefore not necessarily relevant to your interests.

Additional Policies

Data Retention Policies We retain Personal Data strictly for the duration necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in our Privacy Policy. Usage Data is retained for internal analysis to improve security measures, service functionality, or to comply with legal retention requirements.

Cookie Settings Modifications

This Cookies Policy may undergo updates from time to time to reflect changes in our operational, legal, or regulatory environments. We recommend that you regularly review this policy to stay informed about the latest updates.