Cookie Policy
Our website may use cookies to deliver information to your computer. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent from a web server to a browser and stored by that browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from it. Cookies can be "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: the persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until the set expiry date unless it is deleted before the expiry date; the session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user's session, when the browser is closed. Cookies do not usually contain information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to data stored and obtained through cookies. We may use persistent and session cookies on our website, on our own or through our service providers, as described below. Cookies may save your preferences while you are on our website, such as allowing persistent login on pages that require a login, and we may use them to provide you with personalised information and tracking as you use our website. Cookies help us, among other things, determine which areas of our website are popular by tracking access to those areas, which may, in turn, allow us or our third-party vendors to provide you with information or advertisements/advertising about our services. By changing your browser preferences, you can accept cookies, be notified when a cookie is sent, or reject cookies. Rejecting or limiting cookies by your browser may limit your ability to use the website.
We may use several third parties to provide services to us, to help us understand the use of our services, to provide information and to provide advertisements about our website and services. Third-party service providers may include but are not limited to Google Analytics, Google Maps and Google AdSense. These third-party service providers may use cookies or other methods to collect, store and share information as dictated by these third parties privacy policies and disclosures.
Google may use the data collected to track and review your use of this website, prepare reports about your activities, and share these reports with other Google services. Google may also use the data collected to contextualise and personalise ads on its advertising network, such as by using cookies to serve ads based on a user's previous visits to the website. You can see Google's privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
We may use Google Analytics and Adwords to recognise a computer when a user visits our website, track users as they browse the website, enable a shopping cart on the website, improve website usability, analyse website usage, administer the website, prevent fraud and enhance website security, personalise the website for each user, or target ads that may be of particular interest to users.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies, for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the override cookie handling settings, available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", then "Advanced";
- In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from websites",; and
- In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by going to the "Customise & Control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings", and "Content settings", then selecting "Block sites from sending any data" under "Cookies".
Blocking all cookies will harm the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you cannot use all the features on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer, for example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to delete cookies manually (instructions on how to do this can be found at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", then "Delete all cookies"; and
- In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Customise and Control" menu, clicking "Settings", "Show Advanced Settings", and "Delete Browsing Data", then selecting "Delete Cookies and other website and plugin data" and clicking "Delete Browsing Data".
Deleting cookies will harm the usability of many websites.
Effective date: 21 June 2021
