What are cookies?

A cookie is a simple text file containing small amounts of information which are stored on your computer or mobile when you visit a website. Cookies are sent back to the originating site on each subsequent visit or to another site that recognizes the cookie. Cookies allow a website to remember your preferences, improve the user experience and tailor the adverts you see to those that are most relevant to you.

We may use other forms of technology which serve a similar purpose to cookies and which allow us to monitor and improve our sites and apps. These could include "web beacons" (also known as image tags, pixel tags, GIFs or web bugs) which are small pieces of code used to collect advertising data, such as counting page views, promotion views or advertising responses. When we talk about cookies in this policy, this term also includes these similar technologies.

Cookies used on this site

We use the following types of cookies:

• First party cookies: First party cookies are set by our website and can only be read by our site.
• Third party cookies: Third party cookies are set by an organization other than us. For example, we use a third party analytics company (Google Analytics) which will set its own cookie to perform this service. Our site may also contain content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Flickr, and these sites may set their own cookies. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies so you should check the relevant third party website for more information.
• Session cookies: Session cookies are temporarily stored during a browsing session and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed.
• Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies are saved on your computer for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies are used where we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session. For example, we use this type of cookie to store your preferences so that they are remembered for the next visit.

How we use cookies

We group the cookies used on our site into three categories:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary to enable you to move about the website and to use its features.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies enhance the functionality of the website by remembering and storing your preferences — for example, your name, default territory and language. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of our website that you can customize.
• Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use a website in order to improve and enhance its performance — for example, to remember which pages are visited most often.

How to opt out of cookies

If you don't want to allow cookies at all, or you only want to allow the use of certain cookies, please refer to your browser or device settings. The procedure for doing so varies from one browser application to another. To find out how to control or disable cookies within most browsers, consult the "Help" section of your browser or device or visit aboutcookies.org.

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze the use of our website. The information generated by Google's cookies about your use of the site (including your IP address) will be transferred to and held on Google's servers in the US. Google will use this information to analyze your use of the Site, to create reports about the Google may also transfer the information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with other information of Google. By using this site, you consent to the processing of your information collected by Google as described above and for the purposes described above. You can learn more about Google Analytics cookies here. Google Analytics can be disabled through this link.

Please note that by disabling cookies, you may be prevented from accessing some features of the site or certain content or functionality may no longer be available.