Cookie Policy
Introduction
Our website uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged with. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
The remainder of this policy document can help you find the information you need about the use of cookies on our website. We encourage you to read it in its entirety.
If you have any further questions, please contact us directly. Our contact information can be found in the Contact section at the end of this policy document.
This policy was last changed on 11/09/2019
This policy is effective starting 11/09/2019.
About cookies
Also known as browser cookies or tracking cookies, these are small, often encrypted text files, located in your web browser. They are used by our web developers to help you efficiently navigate our website and to perform certain functions. Due to cookies’ core role of enhancing / enabling usability or website processes, disabling cookies may prevent you from using some of our website functionalities.
Cookies come in several flavours, as described below.
Essential cookies
Also known as Strictly necessary cookies, these cookies make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. They do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the Internet. Our website cannot function properly without essential cookies, therefore we do not provide option for them to be rejected (i.e. they are always turned on).
Functional cookies
Sometimes referred to as Preference cookies, they allow our website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks. This includes your preferred language or the region that you are in.
At any time during your visit you have the choice to disable them, however be aware that by doing so any preferences you might have set up would be lost.
Performance cookies
These cookies also go by names Analytics cookies or Statistics cookies, and they help us to understand how you interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. For this purpose we use Google Analytics cookies. They collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our website is being used. We anonymise IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymised data is transmitted to and stored by Google on their servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google promises not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Information collected by performance cookies is in aggregate form and most often anonymised, but you still have the choice to disable them. We would however appreciate you leaving them enabled as this will provide us with valuable data about the performance of our website, resulting in better service to you.
Marketing cookies
Also known as Advertising cookies or Targeting cookies, these cookies are used to track you across our website. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for you and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. We also use a marketing database management programme that deploys a cookie when you interact with a marketing communication, such as a marketing email or a marketing-based landing page on our website.
These cookies collect personal information such as your name, which pages you visit on our website, your history about arriving at our website, and the like. Collected information is used to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and / or to provide better targeting for marketing.
You have the choice of disabling marketing cookies, but please bear in mind that by doing so you will lose the opportunity of being served only those advertisements that might be of interest to you.
Other cookies
Any other, uncategorised, cookies. You should not encounter them during your visit of our website.
Enabling / disabling cookies
Whenever you visit our website for the first time, our web server will present you a cookie banner with a tool to configure your cookie preferences. The banner also includes the link to this policy. With the exception of essential cookies, any other category of cookies (functional, performance, marketing) can be enabled or disabled through this tool.
Configuring your web browser to accept / reject cookies
Besides using the online tool on our website, you can configure your cookie preferences through the settings of your web browser. In order to do so please consult web browser support resources.
Complete list of cookies we serve
The following table lists all cookies served by our website. Along with the name of each cookie, its originating domain, purpose and lifespan are listed.
Strictly necessary cookies
| wordpress_test_cookie wordpress_sec wp_settings_1 wp_settings_time_1 | Essential WordPress cookies. |
Functional cookies
Performance cookies
| _ga | Cookie asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. It is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _gat | Cookie associated with Google Universal Analytics It is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _gid | Cookie asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited. |
Marketing cookies
