Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies 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 if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies in use on our website
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/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, 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 will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
We may share information with third parties for this purpose.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Cookie name or title | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|
| cmplz_functional cmplz_statistics cmplz_preferences cmplz_marketing | Cookie consent banner and cookie consent choices functionality. | Complianz |
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 and we cannot accept any liability for the third party’s compliance with its legal obligations. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies:
| Cookie name or title | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|
| Cookie name or title | Purpose | More information |
| _obid | Tracks unique visits to the site and relates them to the email campaign. | Expires: 1 year Role: Performance / Analytical |
| _obid_visit | Identifies a session across multiple pages; not linked to personal data. | Expires: 4 hours Role: Advertising / Tracking |
| cuid_* | Used as a session cookie in the webchat not linked to personal data. | Expires: 15 days Role: Functional |
| _ga, _gat, _gid | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors access and use our site. This is used to monitor performance, for reporting, and for providing data that will influence the improvements made to the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of people visiting the site, their gender and age, how many pages they looked at and what pages they visited. | Google Analytics Expires: 1 year 1 month 4 days Role: Analytics |
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 site.