Cookie Policy
Last Updated: January 1, 2024
Introduction to Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data that a website asks your browser to place on your computer’s hard drive or in your device’s memory. They serve various functions, such as enabling you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies can be set by the website you are visiting (first-party cookies) or they can be set by third-party services who provide content on the website you are viewing (third-party cookies).
Types of Cookies Used
Necessary Cookies
These are essential for the proper functioning of the website and enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you’ve asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
Performance Cookies
These collect information about how you use our website – for instance, which pages you navigate most often – and enable us to optimize our service for users by identifying patterns of usage. They do not gather information that identifies you personally – all information collected is anonymous and is only used to improve how our website works.
Functionality Cookies
These allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These can also be used to remember changes you’ve made to the text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They may be used by us and our third-party advertising network. They remember that you have visited a website and share this information with other organizations, including analytics providers and advertisers, for the selection of advertising that is more customized to you and aligned with your interests.
Managing or Deleting Cookies
If you wish to control, manage, delete, or disable cookies, you can do so through your browser’s settings as follows:
- Most browsers allow you to refuse all cookies or to select only certain cookies for deletion by clearing them. Blocking cookies, particularly necessary cookies, may affect your experience on the site and its functionality.
- To learn more about how to manage cookies, including how to turn off third-party cookies, visit aboutcookies.org.
Third-Party Cookies
We may use third-party service providers to serve customized advertisements on our website. These providers may place or recognize their own cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect automatically users’ information in the course of advertising delivery as described in the Privacy Policy of this website. You can learn more about online advertising at aboutads.info and the Network Advertising Initiative at networkadvertising.org.
Consent and Control
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. We will ask for your consent to use non-essential cookies in compliance with GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, CCPA, and UK GDPR. You do not have to consent to the use of necessary cookies as they are essential to the use of our website.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by contacting us at [email protected]. If you have provided consent, you may withdraw it at any time without detriment by updating your preferences here or by contacting us directly.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our website.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies and data protection, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].
This Cookie Policy is subject to change; therefore, we recommend that you review it regularly. If significant changes are made, we will notify you and seek your consent where necessary. Lastly, please note that third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads on our website, and user data (such as age, gender, and interests) may be shared with them when you visit our website, as governed by their respective privacy policies.