What are the cookies used for?
We use cookies and similar technologies such as web beacons, tags and Javascript alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about the usage of our websites and interaction with emails from us. When you visit our websites, our servers or an authorised third party may place a cookie on your browser, which can collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different sites. Cookies allow us to track overall usage, determine areas that you prefer, make your usage easier by recognising you and providing you with a customised experience.
Session-based and Persistent Cookies:
We use both session-based and persistent cookies. Session cookies exist only during one session and disappear from your computer when you close your 4 browser software or turn off your computer. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or device after you close your browser or turn off your computer. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our websites or services. To opt-out from tracking by Google Analytics, please use the specific opt-out mechanism as indicated further below.
Web Beacons:
We also use web beacons on our websites. For example, we may place web beacons in marketing emails that notify us when you click on a link in the email that directs you to one of our websites. Such tracking technologies are used to operate and improve our websites and email communications and track the clicking of links or opening of emails. We sometimes use cookies delivered by us or third parties to show you ads for our products that we think may interest you on any devices you may use and track the performance of our advertisements. For example, in these cases, cookies may collect and remember information such as which browsers have visited our websites. The information provided to third parties does not include Personal Data, but this information may be re-associated with Personal Data after the third parties receive it.
We currently use the following cookies:
| Cookie | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Tracking cookies | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. If you do not allow these cookies we will not be able to include your visit in our statistics. You can read the full Google Analytics privacy policy here. |
| Autopilot Analytics | Tracking cookies | We use analytics cookies to tell us whether you have visited the website previously and to gather statistics about visits to a page. |
| Geotargeting | Location cookies | These cookies are used by software that tries to work out what country you are in from information supplied by your browser when it 5 requests a web page. This cookie is completely anonymous and is only used to help target content. |
| Registration | Sign In cookies | When you sign in, we generate cookies that let us know whether you are signed in or not. Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with. |
| Site Performance | Preference cookies | We use website performance cookies to remember preferences you may have set on our websites. |
| YouTube | Embedded cookies | We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. |
Ntice ATS
ATS provider also contracts with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information from web beacons (see below) on our websites, from emails, and on third-party websites. Advertising networks follow your online activities over time and across different sites or other online services by collecting device and usage data through automated means, including through the use of cookies. These technologies may recognise you across the different devices you use, such as a desktop or laptop computer, smartphone or tablet. Third parties use this information to provide advertisements about products and services tailored to your interests. You may see their advertisements on other websites or mobile applications on any of your devices. This process also helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.