Cookie notice

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placedon your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widelyused by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work moreefficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. 

Cookies set by the website owner are called"first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the websiteowner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enablethird party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website(e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties thatset these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visitsthe website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first and third party cookies forseveral reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order forour Websites to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or"strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to trackand target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our onlineproperties. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising,analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

The specific types of first and third partycookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are describedbelow (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on thespecific online properties you visit).

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to acceptor reject cookies. You may set or amend your web browser controls to accept orrefuse cookies. The means by which you can refuse cookies through your webbrowser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser'shelp menu for more information.In addition, most advertising networks offer you a wayto opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out moreinformation, please visit

‍http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

or

http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

The specific types of first and third partycookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are describedin the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may varydepending on the specific online properties you visit):

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize ortrack visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from timeto time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels'' or"clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a uniqueidentifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Websites oropened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor thetraffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliveror communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the websitefrom an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improvesite performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. Inmany instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly,and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Do you serve targeted advertising?

Third parties may serve cookies on yourcomputer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Websites. Thesecompanies may use information about your visits to this and other websites inorder to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you maybe interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure theeffectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookiesor web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sitesin order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potentialinterest to you. The information collected through this process does not enableus or them to identify your name, contact details or other details thatdirectly identify you unless you choose to provide these.