Cookie Policy

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 website, you are agreeing to our use of 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 persistent cookies and session cookies on our website.

Persistent Cookies

A persistent cookie is stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions which allows the preferences or actions of a user across the website (or in some cases across different websites) to be remembered.

Session CookiesA session cookie allows the website to link your actions during a browser session. We use session cookies to enable certain features of the website, to better understand how you interact with the website and to monitor aggregate usage by users and web traffic routing on the website. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log off from the website and then close your browser.

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, use a shopping cart 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.

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

COOKIE

NAME

PURPOSE

DURATION

Strictly necessary cookies

Remember me

This is essential to enable a user to login securely to our website and enables prefilled username and password so that they are not required each time a user logs into the site.

Perpetual

Analytical / performance cookies.

User cookie

This will save details of a user’s system IP, browser version, login time, time zone, operating system etc.
It will enable analytics of the website.

Perpetual

Targeting Cookies

Page cookie

This cookie will save data of visitors by tracking page clicks and total page views to enable analysis of the
usage of the website pages

Perpetual

Third Party Cookies

SharpSpring

This cookie is set by SharpSpring to track and store marketing data from our website. It allows us to customise your experience.

Perpetual

 

Full Story

This cookie is set by Full Story records anonymous user behavior on our site so we can improve our user experience.

Perpetual

 

Facebook

Facebook sets this cookie to track and store marketing data from our website.

Perpetual

 

Optinmonster

This cookie is set by Optinmonster to capture user data such as first name, last name and email for marketing.

Perpetual

 

Subscribers.com

This cookie is set by Subscribers.com to capture user data such as first name, last name and email to enable us to send alerts to your browser.

Perpetual

 

Perfect Audience

This cookie is set by Perfect Audience to enable retargeting marketing.

Perpetual

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.

You may 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.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 months.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Do not track

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the “Preferences” or “Settings” page of your web browser.

 

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