Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on your device when you visit them. They're used to remember things like login details, preferred language, or even what's in your shopping cart.

Why do we use Cookies?
We use cookies to provide a better experience for our users. We also need some types of cookies to function properly, such as those that keep you logged in and ensure our site remains secure.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of our website. Without them, you won't be able to access certain features or navigate our site efficiently.

• Login Persistence: We use essential cookies to remember your login details, so you don't have to enter them every time you visit.
• Session Cookies: These cookies help us maintain a secure connection between your browser and our server. They're automatically deleted when you close your browser or end the session.

Session Cookies

Session cookies are temporary and only exist for as long as your browsing session is active. Once you close your browser, these cookies expire.

• User Preferences: We use session cookies to remember your user preferences, such as language settings.
• Technical Diagnostics: These cookies help us diagnose technical issues with our website and improve performance optimisation.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies are stored on your device until they're deleted or expired. They can be used for various purposes like remembering login details, tracking analytics data, or providing customized content based on your preferences.

• Personalization: We use persistent cookies to provide you with a more personalized experience.
• Analytics and Performance Monitoring: These cookies help us monitor how users interact with our website, track user engagement, and identify areas for improvement.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies are used to improve the functionality of our site. They can include analytics tracking codes or performance optimisation tools.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use functional cookies from third-party service providers like Google Analytics to help us understand how you interact with our website and make data-driven decisions about our content, design, and overall user experience. This helps us identify trends, track conversions, and create a better online presence for visitors like you.

Preference and Language Settings
We also use persistent cookies to remember your language preferences and tailor the content based on that information. When selecting languages or displaying website localizations in their respective country's languages within those regions such as Europe. Our site is accessible worldwide through internet browsers, we follow global regulation policies.

Login/Session Continuity

Our website employs security measures, including session cookies, to maintain continuity between user login sessions and sessions for ensuring a secure browsing experience.

• Secure Authentication: We use persistent cookies to authenticate your access, ensure the integrity of data in transmission.
• Continuing User Session Experience: These enable seamless continuation across subsequent visits without requiring additional input.

Security-Related Cookies

Security-related cookies are an essential part of maintaining our website's security. They help protect you from potential threats by validating incoming requests and preventing attacks.

Browser Storage Technologies

In addition to cookies, we also use other technologies like HTML5 storage or local shared objects for data persistence. These allow us more flexibility in storing user preferences but are subject to similar considerations of transparency regarding the types of stored information.

Technical Diagnostics and Performance Optimisation
We continually work on improving our site's performance by monitoring your interaction with it using functional cookies from third-party services such as Google Tag Manager.

Site Functionality Impact When Cookies Are Disabled

Disabling cookies may affect certain functionalities like login persistence, session management, and analytics tracking. Some areas of the website may not function properly or display inaccurately when this happens.

Clearing/Disabling Cookies

You can choose to delete all your browser's cookies manually by following these steps for each individual supported platform:

• Chrome: On a computer: Select “Clear browsing data” under "Privacy and Security." Press the three dots on an Android device, click “Help & feedback,” then select “More Tools” > “Clear Browsing Data.”

  • For Windows/Mac: Navigate to Settings.
  • Mobile/Android: Choose Chrome app.

• Firefox:

  Desktop/Linux:

  1. Open Firefox's menu (three horizontal lines at the top right corner)
  2. Select Options
  3. Click on Advanced > Network > Data and enable "Clear cookies when leaving a site"

  Alternatively, 4. Go to Privacy & Security from drop down in firefox toolbar or type privacy&security after opening address bar and hit enter Set your browser's preferences for blocking cookies at the moment, you may need this if there is anything you want us to display that is otherwise hidden

• Edge (Legacy):

  1. Select the three dots icon located in top right corner. 2. click on Tools>Privacy settings Set your browser's preferences for blocking cookies at the moment, you may need this if there is anything else we want to display that otherwise would be hidden

Browser Cookie Controls

Browsers like Chrome and Firefox offer built-in features allowing users to manage their cookie consent:

• Chrome: Visit chrome settings privacySection, from here you will see settings for cookies

  • Set "Allow local data to be set" or block it.

  You may need this feature if there is something we want to display on your screen that otherwise would not appear

  • Clear browsing history and data periodically. For instance, a: go to chrome settings advanced/ b: click delete data from past days weeks months or all time

Device Recognition