Cookie Policy

Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites, and also allows us to improve our sites.

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. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

The cookies we use

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.

Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise 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.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences, for example your choice of language or region.

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website, and the advertising displayed on it, more relevant to your interests.

Third-party cookies

Google Analytics uses a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics, _ga, enables a service to distinguish one visitor from another and lasts for two years. Any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services, uses the _ga cookie. Each _ga cookie is unique to the specific property, so it cannot be used to track a given user or browser across unrelated websites.

Managing 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.