Cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Examples of purposes for which a cookie may be used:

• Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognise you when you return to our site.
• Assisting you while you navigate our site.
• Carry out analysis of your use of our services, applications, products, help and training files.
• Carry out analysis of our promotional offers, sales and marketing efforts (including behavioural advertising).
• Allow you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient, for example, by allowing you to store items in an electronic shopping basket between visits. If you register with us or complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie.

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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

• 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).

If you do not enable these cookies some of the content, services and platform functionality may not be available to you.

• 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.

  These cookies do not store directly personal information. The information will generally be used to identify your browser type and the type of device you are using to view content.

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies or specified expiry periods, all cookies will expire after 365 days.