Cookies Policy

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES  

 

Our website uses to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They 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, remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language).
  • 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

 

Cookie type

Name

Purpose

More information

HTTP Cookie

OptanonConsent

OptanonAlertBoxClosed

Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry.

Strictly necessary cookie for the website to function properly

HTTP Cookie

__dpla

__dplf

__dplz

Cookies used analytical purposes

Analytical/ performance cookie

HTTP Cookie

Mobile_detect

Cookie used for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).

Analytical/ performance cookie

3rd party HTML Cookie

AnalyticsSyncHistory

Lang

li_gc

li_mc

liap

lidc

lang

Used by LinkedIn.

Cookies used for performance purposes.

Analytical/ performance cookie

HTTP Cookie

wp-wpml_current_language

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like

your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Functionality cookie

HTTP Cookie

first_page

To store which page was visited first.

Targeting cookie

 

 

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 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 site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.

 

How do I change my cookie settings?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Cookies Settings’ button. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Confirm My Choices’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers: