Cookie Policy

Cookies are small files saved to your computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about your interactions and usage of our website. Cookies allow us to store your preferences to correctly present content, options or functions throughout our website. They also enable us to see information like how many people use our website and what pages they tend to visit.

Cookies have different duration. Temporary cookies, such as those only valid for your browsing session, expire when you close your browser.  Permanent cookies, however, will remain on your computer for a longer period of time, during which they will continue to collect information, until you delete them.  We detail the retention periods for these cookies below. We may also use the information gathered from cookies to compile reports to improve the functionality and user experience of our website.

Cookies can be set by different actors. Typically, this occurs in two cases:

  • First-party cookies: These are cookies set by this website for our visitors.
  • Third-party cookies: These are typically set by other websites whose features run on our website (such as social media plugins). We do not control the use of third-party cookies. Some third-party cookies may be set by Google. For more information regarding Google’s use of cookies, please see Google’s Cookie Policy.

Cookies have different purposes. We typically use the following cookies:

  • Functional Cookies: Cookies that are strictly necessary to enable you to move around our websites or to provide certain basic features. This includes basic features such as playing videos, and storing information already entered (e.g. username, language, location). These include:
    • WordPress (WordPress_sec, wordpress_logged_in, PHPSESSID, euCookie, wpfuuid, wp-api-schema-model): These cookies are required by our website software and store no personal information. Duration: Session only
    • Complianz cookies (cmplz_all, cmplz_choice, cmplz_id, cmplz_stats, cmplz_consent_status, complianz_policy_id, cookie-accept): These record which cookies you consent to. Duration: 1 year (consent is stored for up to 35 years)
  • Statistics: Cookies that monitor the popularity of sections of our website. These include:
    • Google Analytics (_gat): Used to understand how users navigate through our website. This service is provided by Google Inc. Duration: 1 minute
    • Google Analytics (_gid): Used to throttle requests from users to our website. This service is provided by Google Inc. Duration: 1 day
    • Google Analytics (_ga): Used to collect information on page requests for visitor, session and campaign data. This service is provided by Google Inc. Duration: 2 years
  • Marketing: Cookies that track users and display advertisements relevant to them.
    • Marketing cookies are generally not used on this website.

Your rights in relation to cookies. We generally only place cookies with your consent when you first visit this website, apart from for Functional cookies, which are mandatory for this website to operate. If you want to avoid this website placing other cookie on your browser, you can choose to deselect these cookies on visiting this website. You may also set your browser settings to attempt to reject all cookies or manually delete the cookies in your browser, and may still use this website.