Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive or on your device. We may place and access cookies and similar technologies on your computer or device, which are known as first party cookies. Cookies may also be placed and accessed by a third party, which are known as third party cookies and are described below.
Cookies that we use may help you to navigate the website, may be used to deliver content relevant to your interests and to prevent you from having to reenter your username and password each time you access the website. We may also use cookies to track usage patterns on the website and to collect aggregate website usage information.
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are essential to enable you to move around the website and to use its features.
Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how you and other visitors use our website, for instance which pages are viewed most often and if you or other visitors receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you.
Functionality cookies: These are cookies that allow a website to remember choices you make and to provide content and features relevant to your interests.
Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts to you which are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as measuring the effectiveness of the advertising.
The types of cookies described above may be "session cookies" which are temporary cookies that are only stored on your device while you are visiting our website, or "persistent cookies" which are cookies that are stored on your device for a period of time after you leave our website.
Third party cookies: Some third parties may set and access cookies and similar technologies on your computer as well, or we may do so on their behalf. These cookies may provide information to those third parties about your browsing habits and may help them to identify if certain services they provide are being used and to serve advertisements that are more relevant to you. We do not have control over how these third parties use such cookies and similar technologies.
Web beacons: We may also use “web beacons” (also known as “clear GIFs” or “pixel tags”) or similar technologies on our website and in our communications with you to enable us to know whether you have visited a web page or received a message. A web beacon is typically a one-pixel, transparent image (although it can be a visible image as well), located on a web page or in an e-mail or other type of message, which is retrieved from a remote site on the Internet enabling the verification of an individual's viewing or receipt of a web page or message. A web beacon may enable us to relate your viewing or receipt of a web page or message to other information about you.