To make our website work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your computer or device. Most websites do this too. Our website is:
A cookie is a small text file that our website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit one of our sites. It enables our website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
We use cookies and other technologies to ensure everyone who uses our website has the best possible experience. Cookies also help us keep your account safe. By agreeing to this cookie policy, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes we describe in this policy.
There are two types of cookie:
Cookies also have, broadly speaking, four different functions and can be categorised as follow: ‘strictly necessary’ cookies, ‘performance’ cookies, ‘functionality’ cookies and ‘targeting’ or ‘advertising’ cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies are essential to navigate around a website and use its features. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use basic services like viewing other pages etc. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
Examples of how we use ‘strictly necessary’ cookies include:
Performance cookies collect data for statistical purposes on how visitors use a website; they don’t contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to improve your user experience of a website.
Here are some examples of how we use performance cookies:
Information supplied by performance cookies helps us to understand how you use the website; for example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services. We generally use independent analytics companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third-party company (third party cookies).
Preference cookies allow users to customise how a website looks for them: they can remember usernames, language preferences and regions, and can be used to provide more personal services like local weather reports and traffic news.
Here is an example of how we use functionality cookies:
Advertising and targeting cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you but can also limit the number of times you see an advertisement and be used to chart the effectiveness of an ad campaign by tracking users’ clicks. They can also provide security in transactions. They are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with a website operator’s permission but can be placed by the operator themselves. They can remember that you have visited a website, and this information can be shared with other organisations, including other advertisers. They cannot determine who you are though, as the data collected is never linked to your profile.
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Category | Name of Cookie | Purpose | Expiration |
Analytical | _ym_retryReqs | Registers statistical data on visitors' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | Persistent |
Marketing | CONSENT | Used to track users consent and eventually to avoid repeating the short disclosure in future pages and future visits. | 1 month |
NID | The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s Safe-Search filter turned on. | 6 months | |
ANID | his cookie sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. These cookies set by a third party (DoubleClick) and are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web. | 1 week | |
1P_JAR | Set by Google. This cookie sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. | 1 week | |
DV | Collect information about how visitors use our site. | Session | |
Unclassified | _ym_uid | Unclassified | Persistent |
_ym45759417_lastHit | Unclassified | Persistent | |
_ym45759417_lsid | Unclassified | Persistent | |
_ym45759417_reqNum | Unclassified | Persistent | |
_ym45759417_visorbuff | Unclassified | Persistent | |
panoviewer_settings | Unclassified | Session |