Use of "cookies"
Our site uses cookies. By clicking on the "I accept" button in the relevant pop-up window, you consent to our site sending you or displaying on your user interface any number and content of cookies.
You can decide whether to accept cookies each time you visit our site. Your decision is thus only valid for a single occasion and cannot be corrected or modified during use.
When you browse the site, we place cookies, also known as "cookies", which are small individual text files of information on your computer's browser.
We process cookies to learn more about your information usage habits so that we can improve the quality of our services and to present you with tailored pages and marketing (advertising) material when you visit the site.
Please note that there are cookies that we need to store, without which the site cannot function. These are the so-called technically necessary cookies. We are entitled to use these cookies without your permission.
- cookies that store information about you: these cookies are automatically deleted from your computer when you close your browser. These cookies are only used to identify your computer and do not store any personal information about you.
- Authentication session cookies: these are used to identify users after login to ensure that users can access personal pages, and these cookies ensure that you do not have to log in again and again after each click during navigation.
- User-centric security cookie: cookies designed to perform specific tasks to enhance the security of a service that a user has specifically requested. Examples include cookies used to detect repeated failed login attempts to the website or other similar mechanisms designed to protect the login system from abuse. Although logon cookies are usually set to expire at the end of the session (when you exit the browser program), security cookies have a longer expected expiry time to achieve their security purpose.
- user interface customisation cookies are used to store user preferences about the service through websites that are not linked to other persistent identifiers such as username (e.g. cookies for preferred language, cookies for preferred display of results when queried).
- We also use HotJar, which is a cookie used for heat-map analytics that collects information about click locations, mouse movements.
- Enabling the cookies described above is not a requirement for the website to work, but they improve the user experience and make it easier for you to use our website. We are not responsible for the operation of the website if cookies are not enabled.
Google Analytics cookies: provide anonymous, aggregated information about your activity on our websites.
There are cookies that we can only use with your prior consent. These are:
Performance cookies: collect information about how you use the website. We use Google Analytics cookies to better understand the behaviour and characteristics of our users: which sub-pages they visit, how often they visit and for how long. These cookies only identify your computer and the data collected is anonymous.
Functional cookies: they allow the website to remember your previous preferences, thus providing you with a better, more personalised service. They may also contain personal data that you have provided to our site.
Targeting cookies: allow us to display targeted, relevant advertising to you. These cookies also allow you to connect to social networking sites. They only identify your computer and the data collected is anonymous.
We also use remarketing services, such as Google AdWords remarketing, to deliver our personalised ads to you. You can disable these cookies by following the instructions in the Google advertising settings manager. You can find out more about Google's privacy policy on advertising by visiting the relevant Google website.