Pieces of information transferred to your computer’s hard disk from a website are known as cookies. They allow our website to store information about your browsing patterns, making the website more useful to you. Many major sites use cookies: in fact, they are commonly used throughout the internet to offer personalized services. Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies. Each time you use our website, the cookie is accessed. This way, we can track the features you use and the pages and content that you view on the website to help personalize your experience.

We use the following categories of cookies for our website:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our websites and use its features. The information collected by these cookies relate to the operation of our website, for example website scripting language and security tokens to maintain secure areas of our website.
• Performance cookies. These cookies collect anonymous information about how you use our website, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages, and how you arrived at our website. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our website and never to identify you. These cookies are sometimes placed by third-party providers of web traffic analysis services, such as Google Analytics.
• Functionality cookies. These cookies remember choices you make, for example the country you visit our website from, your language and any changes you have made to text size or other parts of web pages that you can customize, to improve your experience of our website and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.
• Targeting or advertising cookies. These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.The cookies are usually placed by third party advertising networks.They remember the websites you visit and that information is shared with other parties such as advertisers.

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. We use Google Analytics. For information on how Google processes and collects your information in regard to this product and how you can opt-out, please see here.We also use Google AdSense to publish adverts.When you view or click on an advert a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other websites.You may opt-out of the use of this cookie by visiting Google’s advertising and privacy page.

For more information on managing cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org, or visit www.youronlinechoices.com which has further information about behavioural advertising and online privacy.

You may disable cookie support on your browser but be aware that by doing so, you will lose certain features that require a cookie to work properly. We may use the information collected by the cookie to provide us with various statistics without identifying any individual.