Cookies policy
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files, containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Your browser sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit the site again so it can recognise you as a return visitor and improve your experience.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited the website before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. This guide is to help you understand how we use cookies.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “sessions”, depending on the length of time a cookie stays on your browsing device. While session cookies only stay on your device until you stop browsing, persistent cookies stay after you have finished browsing until they expire or are deleted.
Cookies can also be “first party” or “third party”. First party cookies belong to us and it is us who place them on your browsing device. Third-party cookies are placed on your browsing device by third parties. These will be providing a service to us or a function of the website but we do not always have control of how they are used. You should check the third party’s website for more information on how they use cookies.
2. Cookies we use
We use persistent cookies, which have different functions:
Essential/strictly necessary cookies: which are essential to the functioning of the website.
Performance cookies: which help us measure the website’s performance and improve your experience. In using performance cookies, we do not store any personal data, and only use the information collected through these cookies in aggregated and anonymised form.
Analysis: these cookies monitor and analyse your behaviour. The information collected through them is used in the analysis of the activity on the website and user navigation profiles.
Technical: these cookies make your authentication possible and allows you to log in. Behavioural Advertising: these cookies allow us to offer ads based on your interests to show our ads on other websites. We also use first party and third party cookies. For more information on how the third parties use cookies, please check their website through the links provided below.
Cookie
Purpose
Third party
Advertising
The cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
Google, Youtube
Analytics
These cookies are used for web analytics, where the data collected is limited to the website operator’s use only, for managing the performance and design of the site.
Google, Youtube
Technical
These cookies are used for the correct functioning of the Site. For example, these are the ones to ensure the continuity of the session, management of the response time and performance or validation of options.
Google, YouTube, WPEngine
Personalisation
These cookies, in combination with more other information, provide us with details such as the language in which the site has been accessed; how was the application loaded; when playing a video, what was the volume option or the resolution selected by you.
Google, Youtube
Profiling
The cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
Google, Youtube
Third party
Google, YouTube, WPEngine
3. How to change cookie settings
How to check cookies are enabled for:
Google Chrome
1. Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select Options
2. Click the ‘Under the Hood’ tab, locate the ‘Privacy’ section, and select the ‘Content settings’ button
3. Now select ‘Allow local data to be set’
Mozilla Firefox
1. Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select Options
2. Then select the Privacy icon
3. Click on Cookies, then select ‘allow sites to set cookies’
Safari
1. Click on the Cog icon at the top of your browser window and select the ‘Preferences’ option
2. Click on ‘Security’, check the option that says ‘Block third-party and advertising cookies’
3. Click ‘Save’
Safari on OSX
1. Click on ‘Safari’ at the top of your browser window and select the ‘Preferences’ option
2. Click on ‘Security’ then ‘Accept cookies’
3. Select the ‘Only from site you navigate to’
Mozilla and Netscape on OSX
1. Click on ‘Mozilla’ or ‘Netscape’ at the top of your browser window and select the ‘Preferences’ option
2. Scroll down until you see cookies under ‘Privacy & Security’
3. Select ‘Enable cookies for the originating web site only’
Opera
1. Click on ‘Menu’ at the top of your browser window and select ‘Settings’
2. Then select ‘Preferences’, select the ‘Advanced’ tab
3. Then select ‘Accept cookies’ option
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
