As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.Back to Top
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use. Back to Top
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Essential cookeis are required to make this website work, they can include rembering login details, remembering what is currently in a shopping cart and are essential to the correct functioning of the website. Back to Top
Also called a transient cookie, a cookie that is erased when the user closes the Web browser. The session cookie is stored in temporary memory and is not retained after the browser is closed. Session cookies do not collect information from the users computer. They typically will store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user. Back to Top
Also called a permanent cookie, or a stored cookie, a cookie that is stored on a user’s hard driveuntil it expires (persistent cookies are set with expiration dates) or until the user deletes the cookie. Persistent cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific Web site. Back to Top
Advertising cookies, also known as “targetign Cookies” record information about your visit to our site and the use of our website also for advertising purposes. Information on third party targeting or advertising cookies that we may use on our website can be seen under the section “Third Party Cookies”. Back to Top
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies as part of our our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We only process such personal information once you have fully consented to us placing the cookies we use on this site on your computer or mobile device.
Legitimate interests: Enhancing your website expeience and providing full functionality throughout the site for the duration of your visit.
Analytical (or performance) cookies
These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. Analytical cookies track and gather data about what pages a visitor visits on our website and duration of stay on our website and individual pages. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:
• Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on and your location (based on your IP address). The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are: ga, gat and gid. These cookies are session and persistent cookies. These cookies expire after 24 hours in the case of gid and 2 years in the case of ga. gat is a session cookie. Back to Top
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. Back to Top
You may also disabel and control Cookies using your browser settings. Please refer to the links below on instructions for your preffered browser.
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
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Name of Cookie | Essential or Non-essential? | Type of cookie | First or Third party? | Session or Persistent? | Expiry time | Purpose |
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__cfduid [x2] | Essential | HTTP Cookie | Third party | Session | 1 year | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
CookieConsent | Essential | HTTP Cookie | First Party | Session | 1 Year | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain |
local_storage_support_test [x2] | Essential | HTML Local Storage | Third Party | Persistent | Persistent | The cookie is used in context with the local-storage function in the browser. This function allows the website to load faster by pre-loading certain procedures. |
_at.hist.# | Non-essential | HTML Local Storage | First Party | Persistent | Persistent | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user’s usage history of the AddThis sharing widget |
__atuvc | Non-essential | HTTP Cookie | First Party | Session | 1 year | Updates the counter of a website’s social sharing features. |
__atuvs | Non-essential | HTTP Cookie | First Party | Session | 1 year | Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis. |
_at.cww | Non-essential | HTML Local Storage | First Party | Persistent | Persistent | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis |
at-lojson-cache-# | Non-essential | HTML Local Storage | First Party | Persistent | Persistent | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis |
at-rand | Non-essential | HTML Local Storage | First Party | Persistent | Persistent | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis |
i/jot | Non-essential | Pixel Tracker | Third Party | Session | Session | Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers. |
lidc | Non-essential | HTTP Cookie | Third Party | Session | 1 day | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
loc | Non-essential | HTTP Cookie | Third Party | Session | 1 year | Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level). |
NID | Non-essential | HTTP Cookie | Third Party | Session | 6 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
uvc | Non-essential | HTTP Cookie | Third Party | Session | 1 year | Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. |
xtc | Non-essential | HTTP Cookie | Third Party | Session | 1 year | Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media. |
__widgetsettings [x2] | Non-essential | HTML Local Storage | Third Party | Persistent | Persistent | Pending |
If you are still looking for more information regarding cookies in use on our website, then you can contact us here.
For more general information on cookies see here.
This Cookie Policy is effective from August 5th 2021. Back to Top