In compliance with EU cookie legislation, this page serves to inform visitors of cookies used on this website.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent from a website to your computer or mobile phone’s Internet browser. It is stored on your device’s hard drive and is used by websites to track online traffic flows. Unless you have programmed your computer to reject cookies, websites have been using cookies to enhance your online experience for years.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to gain a better understanding of our customers and their needs so we can improve their online experience with us. This applies to all visitors to our website, regardless of where in the world they live.
In order to comply with EU regulations, users now have the option of accepting our cookies. Although you will still be able to access most of our content without cookies, your visit to our site would benefit from the additional functionality that cookies will provide.
Whenever a person visits this site, we collect basic information about their behaviour on our site. This includes things like what pages have been visited and how they found our website. The information we gather for these purposes does not identify anyone specifically.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from the other users of our website. What we do gain from this information is a better understanding of what people are interested in on our website and how we can improve their experience on it.
To access this information, 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).
- 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.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
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Google Analytics _ga, _gid, _gat, _gac_<property-id>, _utmz, _utmc, _utmb, _utma
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This cookie allows us to gain a better understanding of how visitors use our site, what content they are interested in, and how they found us. The information we get from Google Analytics is anonymous and for the most part comes in the form of statistics.
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https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/cookie-usage
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Share This plug-in |
This social media plug-in allows visitors to share our website’s content with their social networks. Once again, this information is anonymous. The only information gathered from this cookie is a tally of how many people have shared a specific blog post and what social network was used. |
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Cookie Acceptance |
This cookie monitors whether or not you have accepted cookies on our site. |
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[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, all cookies will expire after two years.
People who use our online services
For convenience, we do have an online contact form that allows people to enquire about our services. This information is sent to us via email and is not stored on our site through cookies. We will not give your contact information to any other organisation unless legally obliged to do so.
Visitors also have the option of signing up for our monthly e-newsletter through our website, in which case their contact details are added to our email database with a well-known email provider. We do not pass along these details to any other organisation.
Managing your cookies
The links below will take you to information on managing cookies in the most commonly used browsers:
To manage your Google Analytics cookies, you can visit the Google Analytics help page, however, please keep in mind that information we obtain from Google Analytics goes towards improving the user experience on our site.