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Cookies Policy
This website uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer or other device to improve your experience. Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure the marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
This page describes what information the cookies gather, how we use that information and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, preventing the cookies from being stored may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
THE TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE
There are generally two types of cookies that we use: “Performance” and “Functionality”. The following is a brief description of each cookie category.
1. Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the website, for example, information related to the unique username you have provided. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate website usage and experiment with new features and changes on the website. The information collected is used to improve how the website works.
2. Functionality Cookies. These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, whether you chose to no longer see advertisements, whether you made an edit to an article on the website while logged out, when you logged in or out, the state or history of website tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the website to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you have customized the website in other ways, such as customizing the toolbars we offer in the right column of every page. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.
The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
Cookie Type | Name | Purpose |
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Functionality | disclaimer_agreed | To suppress the Disclaimer after users have dismissed it. |
Functionality | Cookies_saw | To suppress the cookies notification ribbon after users have dismissed it |
Functionality | Notification | To suppress notification pop-up from reappearing on the landing page. |
DISABLING COOKIES
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
In some cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time we may test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
MORE INFORMATION
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