What is a Cookie?
A Cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of Cookies. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser Cookies or to alert you when our Website is set to access Cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Why are we using Cookies on our Website?
We are using Cookies on our Website for the following purposes:
- To remember User preferences and settings.
- To deliver personalized content and advertisements to the User.
- To analyze app usage and its performance.
- To detect and prevent fraud.
- To provide smooth social media integration.
What Cookies do we use?
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Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are Cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, Cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
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Analytical/Performance Cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
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Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
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Targeting Cookies: These Cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
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Persistent cookies – These cookies are stored in your device's browser and used whenever you visit our Website. These cookies help us remember your settings and preference(s) to make your next visit more convenient. For instance, these cookies will ensure you will not have to log in again. It will also remember the users' language preferences on their next visit.
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Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookies archive of your browser until you leave our Website. The information we receive using these cookies helps us to analyze web traffic patterns, enabling us to identify and troubleshoot problems and provide a better navigation experience.
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Advertising cookies - These cookies help us provide relevant ads to measure the performance of the advertisers’ campaign by analyzing your interaction with the advertiser’s ads. For example, it helps us determine the number of times users have clicked on an advertiser’s ad and have visited the advertiser’s website.
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Web beacons - these are tiny graphic images (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”). We use web beacons and cookies to identify our users and their behavior. We use web beacons for the following purposes:
- To track user activity on our website and improve our services.
- To analyze user engagement with our emails and improve our email campaigns.
- To measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing efforts.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use Cookies, over which we have no control. These Cookies are likely to be analytical/performance Cookies or targeting Cookies. You can block Cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some Cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including essential Cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how you use our content and work out how we can make things better. These Cookies may follow all visitors of the Website and collect anonymous data on where they have come from, which pages they visit, and how long they spend on the site. Google then stores this data to create reports. These cookies do not store personal data or business data. The information generated by the Cookie about the use of the Website, including the IP address, may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may use this information to evaluate the visitor’s use of the Website, compiling reports on Website activity for us and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. 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 will not associate any IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this Website, all visitors consent to the processing of data by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. The Google Website contains further information about Analytics and a copy of Google's Privacy policy pages.
How do I manage Cookies?
You can choose whether to accept our Cookies (except Strictly Necessary Cookies) by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links in our Cookie Preference Center, which can be found in our Site’s footer and Cookie banner. You also have the right to refuse or accept Cookies at any time by activating the settings on your browser.
Note that blocking some types of Cookies may impact your experience on our Site and the services we are able to offer you.
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites or applications, including those of our partners. Please note those third-party websites may also use cookies. We do not control those third-party websites and are not responsible for the cookies they set or access. If you click on one of these links or apps, please note that each will have its cookies policy. Therefore, please read the cookies policy of other Internet sites or apps before using them.
What can you do to delete, disable or block cookies?
Your browser will usually provide information on refusing, deleting, or blocking cookies. The following links will take you to that information on some of the commonly used browsers:
You may opt out of third-party cookies from Google Analytics through its ads settings or https://adssettings.google.com
In addition, you can change your mobile device settings to control whether you see interest-based advertisements.
Please note
If you choose to block the cookies we set on our Website, you may not be able to access all or part of our services; for example, you may not be able to save customized settings such as login information.
