When we provide information services on our website we want to make them easy to use, helpful and reliable. This sometimes involves us placing cookies on your computer, mobile phone or tablet when you visit our site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
Our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use?
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
Cookie Description
Functional
These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.
Preferences
These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
Statistics
These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are needed to run the website, to keep it safe and secure and to comply with the laws that apply to us. Other important jobs they do are:
- Help you to move around the site.
- Tell us whether the user allows cookies or not.
How can I control the cookie preferences?
If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, or any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains detailed information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.