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Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies, also known as browser cookies or web cookies, are small data files that websites store on your device (computer, phone, tablet) when you visit them. These files contain information such as login details, preferences, and tracking IDs to enhance your browsing experience.

Why do Websites use Cookies?

Websites use cookies for various purposes:

  • To remember your login credentials so you don't have to enter them every time.
  • To store your preferences (language settings, font sizes) between visits.
  • To analyze how users interact with the website and improve its performance.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly. They include:

  • Login persistence: Stores your login details so you can access your account without entering them every time.
  • Session management: Handles the creation, updating, and expiration of session IDs to keep track of user sessions.
  • Security-related cookies: Validates SSL certificates and ensures a secure connection.

Session Cookies

These cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser or after a short period (usually 1-30 minutes). They store information like:

  • Login credentials
  • Shopping cart contents
  • Search queries

Session cookies do not persist on your device beyond the current browsing session.

Persistent Cookies

Unlike session cookies, these files remain stored on your device even when you close your browser. They may retain settings or preferences for subsequent visits (e.g., language choice).

We use persistent cookies to store:

  • User preferences: Customizable elements like font sizes and colors.
  • Marketing ID: Uniquely identifies users across our marketing channels.

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable our website's essential features. They cover aspects such as:

  • Form submission
  • Shopping cart functionality
  • Commenting systems
  • Search functions

Without functional cookies, some of these core elements wouldn't work properly or at all.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use performance-oriented cookies to analyze how users interact with our site, aiming to improve its overall usability. These are collected by third-party services like Google Analytics:

  • Track page views and clicks
  • Record user demographics (e.g., language preference)
  • Measure website loading speeds and other technical metrics

Preference and Language Settings

You can set your preferences through the cookies settings we've implemented for convenience:

  • Choose languages
  • Set text size
  • Adjust font styles

These selections remain active between sessions to personalize your browsing experience.

Login/Session Continuity

To ensure a smooth user experience, our website stores login information securely. When you log in or stay logged-in on devices that have the same login credentials stored (i.e., same account), we'll recognize and respect these details:

  • You can continue with an ongoing session.
  • Your existing settings remain applicable.

Device Recognition

Our site detects returning users' devices by analyzing cookies saved previously, to enable seamless continuity in various sessions. This also contributes to optimizing our content offering and improving website performance for all users based on actual user habits.

Security-Related Cookies

We store security cookies temporarily (up to a few minutes) during browsing sessions:

  • For detecting attempted hacking incidents
  • Validating your current session from the server-side using cryptographic methods such as TLS or SSLThese help secure communication protocols and block malicious actions, ultimately providing protection against common cyber risks.

Browser Storage Technologies

Cookies aren't the only means of storing data locally. Browsers have other options available:

LocalStorage: Allows users to store large amounts of structured data that can be updated dynamically.SessionStorage: Supports dynamic updating during runtime sessions

  • Both are utilized for session management or temporary state persistence when you need more complex local data storage compared with traditional cookies.

Third-Party Integrations

Some features on our website come from third-party vendors:

  • These partners collect additional information as needed (with consent), which contributes to personalized user experience.
  • We maintain a strict approach towards partnering, prioritizing the confidentiality of sensitive details.Third party integration services may:
  • Analytics: Collect aggregated behavioral data through anonymous session cookies or LocalStorage entries for optimizing website performance.

Marketing/Communication Preferences

We utilize marketing-oriented tracking systems like Google Tag Manager and Doubleclick that respect Do Not Track (DNT) flags set in your browser configuration. If enabled, all our website will prioritize minimal interaction when you've opted to block potential online ad targeting attempts using DNT guidelines from the European Union.

Browser Cookie Controls

Each major browser includes built-in cookie management tools:

  • Disable cookies: Temporarily or permanently stops storing new data
  • Block third-party cookies: Restricts websites outside our site from placing cookies in your session.These features are useful for users who want fine-grained control over the types of data gathered by browsing history. For full information about handling specific browser-specific settings, we direct you to relevant documentation.

Clearing or Disabling Cookies

Disabling cookies: Browsers allow choosing which sites have permission to save their own cookies.Clearing cookies: Manually delete all stored cookie files and user preferences between visits.

Keep in mind: Enabling full control over your browsing data could diminish some website functionality (as explained below).

Site Functionality Impact When Cookies Are Disabled

Cookies play a significant role for our site's efficiency, as follows:

  • Without essential cookies, some features become unavailable.
  • A session cookie can help manage content delivery more effectively; without them you may notice loading delays due to inefficient usage of website resources.

However, enabling cookie controls does not make the web experience insecure or unreliable; rather, it's an added layer for controlling personal data being shared across various sites during browsing sessions.

Technical Diagnostics and Performance Optimisation

Through continuous analysis with services like Google Tag Manager and New Relic, we ensure our site performs well on multiple platforms and networks by detecting potential issues based on user interactions and server load metrics recorded through aggregate cookie-collected information:

  • Our technical staff will review this data to make the necessary adjustments.As a result of monitoring how users navigate between pages or time spent interacting with website components (like form submission) within specific regions worldwide, we're able to improve usability.

Aggregated Analytics Information

To maintain accurate metrics on global user experience:We collect aggregated and anonymous session statistics like:

  • Page views per visit
  • Click streams during interactionsUser profiles remain private thanks to de-identified information being fed into analysis tools (e.g., Google Tag Manager).

User Experience Improvements

We're constantly working towards creating an enjoyable browsing experience for all our visitors:For this purpose, your interaction patterns across the website will be collected using a tracking ID assigned when you first arrive at our landing page through cookies stored temporarily during initial access. This enables us to:

  • Identify potential improvements in terms of content organization or navigation structureDevelop intuitive UI elements with increased accessibility based on actual user data provided anonymously and securely via cookies.