Cookies Policy, Why we use cookies?

Why we use cookies

Our  website uses cookies to distinguish you from other visitors of our  website in order to provide increased functionality and service. This  not only helps us to provide you with a better experience, but also to  help us improve our website and services.

Unless you  have adjusted your web browser settings (if and where possible) to  refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our  website or related online services. However in doing so, you may find  that certain functionality or services may be impaired or unavailable to  you.

The cookies we use only contain anonymous information to improve the services we offer, and do not contain personal information.

It  is also important to point out that not all cookies used by this  website are created by us. These cookies (referred to as third party  cookies) are covered below.

What cookies do we use?

The cookies we use are to  help provide functionality and/or analytical services.

Functionality cookies

These  cookies allow us remember your coockie policy choice and remind the browser to keep essential files to improve the website loading speed.

Cookie name What it does
cookie_noticed_accepted This cookie helps us determine the user accepted our cookies policy previously on our website.
__cfduid This cookie helps on speed loading content.

Analytical cookies

These  cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our  website, discover how visitors move around our website, and to track the  content that visitors view and are interested in. This helps us to  tailor the content we provide and make sure we offer more of what our  visitors want, and less of what they don’t want. Without this  information we would have to rely on you, the visitor, contacting us and  letting us know if you don’t like something, or if you want to see more  of a particular type of content. Analytics does this automatically, all  without personally identifying who you are.

What analytical cookies do we use?

Google Analytics

Our  website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google,  to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the  information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The  cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number  of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and  the pages they visited.

Cookie name What it does
_utma This cookie helps us determine the number of unique visitors to our website.
_utmz This  cookie helps us determine the referral method for people visiting our  website. This helps us to analyse the traffic arriving at our      website and to determine which are the most popular routes (e.g. direct,  search engine search, email link).
_utmb We  use this Google Analytics cookie to help us to record the length of  individual sessions from our users on our website. Each time you move to  a new page within our website within 30 minutes of arriving the cookie  updates so that we know that you are still actively using our website  within a single session.
_utmc Similar to _utmb, we use this Google Analytics cookie to help us record the length of individual sessions on our website.
AddThis AddThis  is an online service to track which social networking options you use.  This information is only used to identify which are the most popular  document networking tools, and how many people may like our content.
Uid/uvc Features for sharing via social media (Facebook, Twitter etc). AddThis track visitors who use any of their features.

From  time to time we may embed photos or video content from websites such as  Flickr or YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page containing these  items you may be presented with cookies from these websites.

We  do not control these cookies and you should check the relevant third  party’s website for more information on their cookies usage or privacy  policies.

Sharing tools

On  a lot of our pages you will see sharing buttons which enable you to  easily share content with your friends through the most common social  networks. When you click on any of these links, a cookie may be set by  the social network you have chosen to use. As with embedded content, we  do not control these cookies, so always check with your chosen social  network for more information.

I want to know more…

You can find out more about cookies, including how to disable/enable them at the following website: www.aboutcookies.org

You  can also choose to block most cookies by configuring the settings in  your web browser. However, if you use your browser to block all cookies  (including the essential ones our website requires) you may not be able  to access all parts of our website, or you may find that particular  functionality is reduced or missing. Unless you have adjusted your  browser settings to block cookies, our website will issue cookies as  soon as you visit it.

If you are trying to  delete or disable cookies on your mobile phones, tablets, or any other  internet-enabled devices, please refer to the manual that was provided  with it, or to the device manufacturer’s website.