GDPR Statement

Overview

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the ‘Help’ section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

This enables the website to carry out the functions set out in the ‘What cookies are used on our website?’ section below.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file which is downloaded on to the devices you use to access our website, such as your computer, tablet or smartphone. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. Cookies are sent back to the website each time you re-visit it, enabling the website to retrieve and read the information held to “remember” you and /or your devices. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies may be encrypted.  More information on cookies and their use can be found at aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.

Why we use cookies

When we collect information automatically, we and our service providers use Internet server logs, cookies and other similar tracking technologies. We use these technologies in order to offer you a more tailored experience in the future, by understanding and remembering your particular browsing preferences. As we adopt additional technologies, we may also gather information through other methods.

We also use cookies to measure the effectiveness of our marketing communications, for example by telling us if you have opened a particular marketing email.

Types of cookies 

• SESSION COOKIES – these allow COMPANY Analytical Services to link your actions as a user of the website during a browser session. These cookies expire after the browser session ends.
• 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 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 also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

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.

We may periodically update the cookies we use and our Cookie Policy, and you should revisit this page if you wish to keep yourself informed.

Third Party Embedded Content

Videos on our website are hosted on the YouTube platform and use their video player application. We use YouTube because it allows us to share videos with our visitors.

• YouTube privacy policy: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ 
• YouTube cookie policy and how to opt out of it  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Third-party Information Collected and The Purpose of Collecting That Data, for YouTube

Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Youtube video. To track your behaviour Google uses a unique identifier created when you first visit our website and stored as a cookie so that as you visit other pages on the website, or if you leave and then return to the website, we identify the activity as belonging to the same user. This unique identifier does not directly provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information (such as your name or email address).

The information Google collects with regard to video allows us to measure:

• The number of visitors that have watched a video
• How often a video is watched in its entirety
• What devices visitors are using to watch videos on
• Where visitors are watching from (country, region and city)

We use the information collected by Google to understand user engagement with our videos and to improve their content.

If you don’t wish to have your activity tracked whilst visiting the website you can disable cookies for the website in your browser.