ABOUT THIS POLICY
This Cookie Policy tells you what to expect when our website collects personal information. It applies to the information we collect about our visitors and those who log in to our website.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A ‘cookie’ is a small text file that is delivered by our website server onto your computer whilst you visit our website. This can subsequently be used by the website to identify individual devices and thereby remember your website preferences and login details. Most cookies will not collect information that identifies you and instead will collect more general information such as how you arrived at and used our website, or your general geographical location.
We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience with our Services. This type of information is collected to make the Services more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special interests and needs.
Most web browsers include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.
You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, certain parts of our Website may become inaccessible and certain features may not work correctly. Unless you adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue them.
Our Website pages [and e-mails] may contain web beacons (small transparent embedded images or objects, also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count website page visitors [or email readers,] or to compile other similar statistics such as recording Website content popularity or verifying system and server integrity.
WHY ARE COOKIES NEEDED?
Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. They help make our website more user-friendly, efficient and secure and they are a standard part of most modern websites. For example, they remember the items you’ve placed in your online shopping cart so that the items appear at the checkout when you make your purchase. Another example would be when you login to webmail services such as Hotmail or Gmail: on such occasions a cookie is generated that confirms you are logged in and, when you log off, the cookie is deleted. This means if someone goes back to your webmail address on your computer, you will still be logged out – and they won’t be able to read your emails.
More detail on how businesses use cookies is available at: www.allaboutcookies.org
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
We automatically collect your data via cookies when you visit our website, in line with the cookie settings in your browser, and through the cookies you activated when you selected various options on our cookie banner.
We use cookies to track your activity to help ensure you get the best possible experience when visiting our website and, for example, if you are using a shared computer, that you stay logged out when you leave our website.
We do not make any attempt to discover the identities of anyone who visits our website, and we will not associate any of the data gathered from our website with any personally identifiable information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies (known as “Essential cookies”) enable core functionality such as page navigation and access to secure areas. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes, and they do not remember when you have been on the internet. You may disable these cookies by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how our website functions during your interactions with us (see relevant section below).
Non-essential Cookies
We collect data from you for the purposes shown below when you visit our website, but we can only do so if you have granted us permission to do so using our cookie preferences shown on our Cookie Banner. You can change your preferences at any time.
Analytical/Performance Cookies
These cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone but it allows us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Website.
We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the United States. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services regarding website activity and Internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.
Targeting Cookies
These cookies record your visits 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.
Third Party Cookies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. They may associate the information collected with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites or other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control how these third-party tracking technologies operate or how they may use the collected data. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
The specific cookies we use are:
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NAME TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY PURPOSE
First Party
Persistent Navigation flow
- JSESSIONID
- PHPSESSID
- session
- We_cart_hash¬_191bbe94a731e0ba16a5e4e2e330c6af
- Wc_fragments_191bbe94a731e0ba16a5e4e2e330c6af
- WordPress_test_cookie
Third party
Social cookies Created by a website with a domain name other than the one the user is currently visiting:
- Pardot Form
- GTM – link click listener (google tag manager)
- Hotjar
Analytics
- Google Analytics Persistent
- Form submission Persistent Tracks and reports on website traffic
- Page tracker Persistent
- Tag manager Persistent
I DON’T CONSENT TO THE USE OF COOKIES – WHAT CAN I DO?
You can turn off cookies for a particular website or several sites, by adjusting your browser settings to prevent it from accepting cookies. You can learn how here or follow the links below:
Browser plugin You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Objecting to the collection of data You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site: Turn Google Analytics on or off for users – Google Workspace Admin Help
For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
It’s important to note that turning off cookies is likely to limit the functionality of not only our website, but also the functionality of a large number of the world’s websites, and accordingly, your experience of ours and other websites may be impaired because data is no longer being captured about your interactions.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware” and in which case, rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE POLICY
This ‘Cookie Policy’ was last updated in November 2022.
