Cookie Policy
Last Updated: January 1, 2024
Introduction to Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners. Cookies serve various purposes such as distinguishing different users from each other, remembering your preferences, and helping to ensure the integrity of transactions made through our site.
Types of Cookies Used on Our Website
Our website utilizes several types of cookies, each serving a specific function:
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Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its services and features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
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Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
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Functionality Cookies: These cookies 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. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable aspects of the site.
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Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and your interests. They may be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on our site and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. If you are not logged in, these cookies can acknowledge that you have visited our site to show you targeted ads once you visit a site that has the same advertising partners.
Third-Party Cookies
We may employ third-party cookies across our websites from a variety of sources to collect information on website usage (for example, Google Analytics). These cookies are likely to be analytical or performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Managing and Deleting Cookies
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies and can exercise this right by amending or setting the cookies that you want to allow in your browser settings. For example, many browsers will allow you to refuse cookies completely, or you can set your browser to notify you each time a new cookie is received. If you do not want information collected through the use of these cookies, you should be able to opt-out by following the instructions which should be provided within the cookie notice on our site or by configuring your browser settings including, but not limited to:
- Operating system settings
- Browser settings (usually found in ‘Options’ or ‘Preferences’ depending on your browser)
- Internet Advertising Bureau’s consumer information page on how to manage cookies and opt-out of interest-based ads.
Consent and Control
By continuing to use our website without altering your cookie settings, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy. If you want to remove existing cookies from your device, you can do this using your browser options. The process for removing cookies differs across different browsers, so you should select your browser from the list below and follow the instructions which will show you how to delete all cookies which are stored on your computer.
- For Microsoft Internet Explorer:
- Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”
- Click on the “Privacy” tab
- Under “Settings,” move the slider to the level of privacy you want
- For Mozilla firefox:
- Click on “Tools” then “Options”
- Select the “Privacy” panel and then “Remove Cookies”
- For Safari users:
- Mac users: Select “Safari” in the top menu bar, then click on “Preferences”
- Go to the “Privacy” tab and click on “Remove all Website Data”
- For Chrome users:
- Click on the “Chrome” menu in the browser toolbar.
- Select “Privacy” then “Content settings”
- Under “Cookies,” you can remove already-set cookies or block new cookies.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookie Policy, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We take your privacy seriously and are here to help answer any of your questions regarding our use of cookies.
This Cookie Policy is compliant with GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, CCPA, and UK GDPR. Please note that the specifics of this policy may be updated from time to time in response to new legislation or best practices in data protection. This document was last updated on January 1, 2024, and any changes will be documented here.