A cookie is a small text-only file of information that is sent or transferred to your device (such as your computer, smartphone or other web-enabled device) when you access a website. Cookies allow the website to recognise your device when you revisit and remember certain information about your prior visit such as which pages you visited, choices you made from menus, any specific information you entered into forms and the time and date of your visit. Among other things, cookies help us valuate what parts of our websites are useful and which need improvement.
Cookies can be set by the operator of the websites you visit or by third parties that may or may not have a relationship with that operator. First party cookies are set by the operator to gather information for use by the operator. For example, we set first party cookies that help us evaluate whether our websites are performing as intended. In addition to cookies which send information to us, our websites also use cookies which collect information and send it to third parties. These are third party cookies and are set by an external organisation.
Some of our cookies may collect and store your personal data, such as your name, email address or IP address. We are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy and will ensure that personal data we collect is kept and treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy. For further details of how we process personal data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
To manage your use of cookies there are various resources available to you. For example, the ‘Help’ section on your browser may assist you. You can also disable or delete the stored data used by technology similar to cookies, such as local shared objects or flash cookies, by managing your browser’s ‘add-on settings’ or visiting the website of its manufacturer.
