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Cookies policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and services. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you visit our website or use our services and allows us to improve our website and services for your benefit. 

What are cookies? 

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your browser or your computer to help distinguish you from other users. We use cookies to help us provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and help us to improve our site through monitoring visitor interest and behaviour anonymously. 

We use the following cookies: 

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website. 

  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. 

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). 

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.  

What cookies do we use on our site? 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below: 

 

Name

Use

Explanation 

_ga 

Strictly necessary 

This cookie is used by our analytics software to monitor which pages are visited and allow us to make improvements to the website by analysing visitors interest and behaviour. All data collected is anonymous. 

__gads 

Targeting 

This cookie enables the website to show Google ads and to provide advert delivery or retargeting. 

__exponea_etc__ 

Strictly necessary 

This is used for user communication for service and marketing. 

__exponea_time2__ 

Strictly necessary 

This is used for user communication for service and marketing. 

__qca 

Targeting 

This cookie is used by Quantcast to store consent. 

_gid 

Analytical 

This cookie is used for Google Analytics to store and update a unique value for each page visited. 

ai_session 

Strictly necessary 

This cookie is used by our analytics software to monitor which pages are visited and allow us to make improvements to the website by analysing visitors interest and behaviour. All data collected is anonymous. 

ai_user  

Strictly necessary 

This cookie is used by our analytics software to monitor which pages are visited and allow us to make improvements to the website by analysing visitors interest and behaviour. All data collected is anonymous. 

pi_browser_consent 

Functionality 

This cookie is used to handle the consent given by the user that allows us to show the newsletter and browser push web layers. 

addtl_consent 

Strictly necessary 

This cookie is used to record your consent status for cookies. 

euconsent-v2 

Strictly necessary 

This cookie is used to record your consent status for cookies. 

Third party cookies 

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.  

Advertising 

  • Adprime  

  • Amazon  

  • AppNexus  

  • Google  

  • Index Exchange  

  • Media.net  

  • Nativo  

  • Online Media Solutions  

  • Pubmatic  

  • PulsePoint  

  • TanMedia  

  • TapNative  

  • Teads  

  • TripleLift  

Some of the advertising partners above will also use other advertising networks on the approved IAB Vendors list https://iabeurope.eu/vendor-list-tcf/  

Site Analytics 

  • Google Analytics 

  • Azure Application Insights 

  • Quantcount 

  • GA Audiences 

Social Media 

  • Facebook Connect 

Changing privacy and cookies, including in your browser 

You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set on our website via on the cookie banner, or by clicking on the privacy settings icon at the bottom left of the webpage. You may also deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies by the cookie banner or privacy settings icon. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. We have provided links below to instructions for all the major browsers on how to change your cookie settings. 

 Last revised 08th April 2024