Cookie Policy
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
We implement Google Analytics on our website to help us monitor and improve user experience. The tracking code used on our website supports Google Display Advertising to facilitate Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. This anonymous data allows us to better understand the visitors to our website. If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking, please visit here.
We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online and we can assure our visitors that none of the information collected is associated with them as individuals and shall not be disclosed to any other organisation except as required by law.
Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. If you’re using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari, you can configure your browser to restrict or block cookies, or you may wish to delete them by going to browser settings.
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (small file of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until deleted or until it reaches its set expiry date.
A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, register, submit questions or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting 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 the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; however you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.