Cookie Usage Explained

Understanding Cookies and Tracking Technologies: This Cookie Notice details the cookies and related tracking technologies used across our websites and mobile apps. It explains how these tools function, their importance, and how you can manage them.

What are cookies?

Cookies, along with other tracking technologies like beacons, scripts, and tags, are small text files stored on your device. They remember your interactions with our site and help personalize your experience. On mobile, we use device IDs and Advertising IDs similarly to cookies, enhancing site usability and ad targeting.

#1 Insight into Our Cookie Practices

They enable us:

To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences, allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
To speed up your searches.
To recognise you when you return to our site.

#2 External Tracking Practices and Cookie Use

Our website may contain links to other websites for your convenience and to provide additional resources. If you navigate to a third-party website, you are thereby agreeing to that website's privacy practices and use of personal information.

Our website utilizes advertising marketing platforms to display ads on third-party websites to previous visitors of our site. This means we may advertise to former visitors who have interacted with our site, such as filling out a contact form. This could result in an advertisement being displayed on a search results page. Third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a user's past visits to our website. Any data collected will be treated according to our own privacy statement.

#3 Alternate Web Monitoring Techniques

Embedding Social Media Buttons

Our websites feature social media buttons to facilitate easy sharing and bookmarking across various platforms. By implementing these buttons, we enable connections to different social networks and external sites. Please be aware that these third-party sites may collect data about your online activities, including your interactions on our site. For detailed information on their data usage and opt-out procedures, refer to the privacy policies of these sites.

#4 How can cookies be managed/blocked?

You can choose to disable and enable all non-essential cookies by clicking on the relevant setting in the cookie banner which pops up at the top of the screen when you enter the site. JavaScript must be

enabled in order to see this banner and select your cookie preferences. All but strictly necessary cookies are set at “off” by default.

#5 Additional Information

Data Retention Approach

Our retention of Personal Data is strictly tied to the purposes laid out in our Privacy Policy. We retain Usage Data to enhance service security, functionality, and to adhere to statutory retention guidelines.

#6 Alterations to Cookie Preferences

This Notice is subject to periodic updates to ensure it remains compliant with legal standards and reflects our operational changes. We will update any changes on this Site. Regularly reviewing this Cookie Notice will help you stay informed about our practices concerning Cookies. Please contact us if you have any questions.