12. Cookies
12.1 What are Cookies?
12.1.1 Certain sections of the Website use cookies. These are small pieces of data sent by the Website’s server to your computer that allow the Website to retrieve your user preferences, to personalise your visits and to simplify any sign-in procedures. It consists of anonymous information, including a unique user identifier. When you revisit a site or navigate between pages, this data is passed from your browser to the Website’s server. With this data, the Website is able to ‘remember’ your browser, enabling it to retrieve your user preferences, to personalise your visits and to simplify any sign-in procedures. We can then use this information to improve the Website for all our visitors.
12.1.2 Cookies are intended to improve your user experience by making it faster and easier to navigate through a website. For example, some websites require that you log in to gain access. If such websites did not use cookies, then you would be required to enter your login details every time you navigated to a new page because the website would not be able to remember that you had already logged in.
12.1.3 All of the information a cookie collects can only be retrieved by the website server that sent the cookie to your browser. Cookies are necessary for the Website to provide certain features and functions. Cookies are meant to improve the user experience, but some users prefer to set restrictions on the types of cookies that can be stored on their computer or mobile phone.
12.2 Cookies used on the Website
12.2.1 All of the cookies on the Website are set by us. We may collect information about your computer including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration, to record aggregate information, to record session information and/or to assist you in answering questions in connection with our Service. This may in some instances only be statistical data about how you browse the Website.
12.2.2 For the same reason, we may obtain information about your usage of the Website by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Cookies help us to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. For example, they enable us to estimate usage numbers and patterns and recognise you when you return to the Website.
12.2.3 The cookies used on our Website include:
Name of cookie
Session ID cookies
Purpose of cookie
To maintain a user’s session on the Website.
Reason for use
This cookie ‘remembers’ the user from page to page.
Name of cookie
Google Analytics cookies
Purpose of cookie
Used for web analytics and marketing purposes.
Reason for use
This cookie ‘remembers’ different types of data used by each user of the Website for the aforementioned purposes.
12.2.4 By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set or to reject all cookies. However, it is important to note that you will lose some functions of the Website if you choose to restrict or disable its cookies. It may also impact your browsing experience.
12.3 Third Party Functions
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. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
13. Changes and updates to this privacy and cookies policy
13.1 We reserve the right, from time to time, to change this Privacy and Cookies Policy (whether in response to any change in applicable law or regulation or otherwise) and the terms thereof that are applicable to your use of the Service will be the version that is displayed on our Website at each date you access the Service.
13.2 Without prejudice to 13.1, we will strive to notify you of any significant changes in the way we treat your personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address you have specified for such purpose and/or by placing a notice on the Website.
14. General
14 The provisions of clause 11.8 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction) of the Terms shall apply to this Privacy and Cookies Policy.