COOKIE POLICY

 
 

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers 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.

We use the following cookies:

  • 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Facebook Pixel – 28 days
It tracks visitors to the site to later service them with display adverts on Facebook and Instagram

_Ga – 2 years
Google Analytics cookie, Used to distinguish users.

_gid – 24 hours
Google Analytics cookie, Used to distinguish users.

_gat – 1 minute
Google Analytics cookie, Used to throttle request rate.

AMP_TOKEN – Up to 1 year
Google Analytics cookie, Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.

_gac_<property-id> – 90 days
Google Analytics cookie, Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.

__utma – 2 years from set/update
Google Analytics cookie, Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmt – 10 minutes
Google Analytics cookie, Used to throttle request rate.

__utmb – 30 mins from set/update
Google Analytics cookie, Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmz – 6 months from set/update
Google Analytics cookie, Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmv – 2 years from set/update
Google Analytics cookie, Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmx – 18 months
Google Analytics cookie, used to determine a user's inclusion in web content testing experiment in which the user has been included in, whereby two versions of our website are tested to find out which one works better for the user.

__utmxx – 18 months
Google Analytics cookie, Used to determine the expiry of a web content testing experiment in which the user has been included in, whereby two versions of our website are tested to find out which one works better for the user.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.