Cookies Notice
Last revised: 12 November 2021
This Website uses cookies to improve the user experience and ensure that it is functioning effectively. This Cookie Notice is part of our Privacy Statement. For more information about us, and how we protect visitor information, please see our Privacy Statement. In order to provide you with a more personalized and responsive service we need to remember and store information about you and how you use this Website. This is done using small text files called cookies. Cookies contain small amounts of information and are downloaded to your computer or other device by a server for this Website. Your web browser then sends these cookies back to this Website on each subsequent visit so that it can recognize you and remember things like your user preferences. You can find more detailed information about cookies and how they work at http://www.aboutcookies.org/. Initially, you should pay attention to our Terms of Use. Whenever you use this Website, information may be collected through the use of cookies and other technologies. By using this Website you agree to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Notice.
How we use cookies
Some of the cookies we use are necessary to enable you to move around the Website and use its features such as accessing secure areas that may contain content for registered users. We also use functional cookies to record information about the choices you have made and to allow us to tailor this Website to our users; for example, to remember your language or region or that you have already completed a survey. This information is anonymized and is not used for any purpose unrelated to this Website. We also use analytic services to help us understand how effective our content is, what interests our users have, and to improve how this Website works. For further information, please see our Privacy Statement. In addition, we use web beacons (or so-called tracking pixels) to count visitor numbers and performance cookies to track how many individual users access this Website and how often. This information is used for statistical purposes only and it is not our intention to use such information to personally identify any user. However, if at any time you register and sign into this Website we may combine such data with information from our web analytic services and cookies to analyze how you use this Website in more detail. Information on how to control these analytics cookies is set forth below, in Managing Analytics Cookies. This Website does not use targeting cookies to deliver targeted advertising on this Website. Please contact us if you would like to receive more detailed information on the cookies we use.
How to control cookies
By using this Website you agree that we can place cookies on your computer or other device as explained above. However, you can control and manage the use of cookies anytime. Please bear in mind that blocking or removing cookies which already have been placed on your computer can impact on your user experience and parts of this Website may no longer be fully accessible.
Browser controls
Most browsers will allow you to see what cookies you have and delete them on an individual basis or block cookies from particular or all websites. Be aware that any preference you have set will be lost if you delete all cookies, including your preference to opt-out from cookies as this itself requires an opt-out cookie to have been set. For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, see http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/. Before you visit these websites, we recommend to pay attention to our Terms of Use.
Managing Analytics cookies
You can opt-out of having your anonymized browsing activity within websites recorded by analytics cookies. We use the following service providers and you can learn more about their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their cookies by clicking on following links: Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html
Managing Flash Cookies
A flash cookie (or local shared object) is like most other browser cookies except that it can store additional types of information. These cookies cannot be controlled using the mechanisms listed above but can rather be controlled manually via the Adobe website. Some parts of this Website use these types of cookies to store user preferences for media player functionality and without them some video content may not play properly. These cookies can be controlled manually by visiting the Adobe website. http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
Social buttons
We use ‘social buttons’ to enable our users to share or bookmark web pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites. Through these social buttons, these sites may provide non-personal information about you such as log information about your activities on the Internet, including on this Website. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy statements of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information and to find out how to delete such information or how you could prevent the transfer of such information.
External web services
We sometimes use external web services on this Website to display content within the web pages of this Website, for example to display images and videos or run polls. As with the social buttons, we cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of this embedded content. We may modify or amend this Cookie Notice from time to time at our discretion. When we make changes to this notice, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page, and such modified or amended Cookie Notice shall be effective as to you and your information as of that revision date. We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Notice to be informed about how we are using cookies.
