Cookie Policy
How Does the Company that Owns This Website Use Cookies?
The company that owns this website uses various technologies to enhance the efficiency of its websites, including your experience when browsing these sites. These technologies include cookies.
What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file, usually consisting of letters and numbers, that is installed on your computer, tablet, phone, or similar device when you use it to visit a website. Website owners use cookies to make their websites work or to make them work more efficiently, as well as to report information.
What Are Cookies Used For?
There are different types of cookies for different types of use. The company that owns this website uses the following types of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website, for example, to allow you to log in to secure areas of our website or to use a shopping cart.
Performance and analytics cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to our website and to see how they move around the site when they are using it. This helps us improve the way our website works (for example, by ensuring that visitors can easily find what they are looking for).
Functionality cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to the website. This allows us to personalize 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 the website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We 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.
Google Analytics cookies: for an indefinite duration.
- _ga, _gat, _gid Purpose: Statistical analysis of website visits
How Long Do Cookies Stay on My Device?
Some cookies operate from the moment you visit a website of the company that owns this website until the end of that particular browsing session. These cookies expire and are automatically deleted when you close your internet browser. These cookies are known as temporary or «session» cookies.
Some cookies will remain on your device during browsing sessions, do not expire when you close your browser. These cookies are known as «persistent» cookies. The length of time a persistent cookie stays on your device varies from one to another.
Who Puts Cookies on My Device?
The company that owns this website, as the operator of the website, installs cookies on your device. These cookies are known as «first-party» cookies. It is possible that other suppliers different from us put cookies on your device. These cookies are known as «third-party» cookies.
How Can I Control What Cookies Are Placed on My Device?
It is up to you to decide whether or not to accept cookies. One way to do this is through your internet browser settings. Most internet browsers allow control of almost all cookies through the browser settings. (Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access certain parts of our website.) The following websites provide information on how to adjust the cookies settings in some of the most popular browsers:
- Apple Safari
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Mozilla Firefox
You can also use a browser plug-in, such as Ghostery by Evidon Inc. or the Tracking Protection List by TRUSTe. (A browser plug-in is a piece of software that adds extra functionality to your browser, for example, to view a video or search for viruses.)
Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia on a computer. Websites that use Adobe Flash can store flash cookies on users’ devices to remember settings, preferences, and similar uses for other types of cookies. The company that owns this website may use Flash to provide special content such as video clips or animations. You can access Flash management tools directly from Adobe’s website.
To opt out of Google Analytics analytical cookies on the company’s websites, visit: Google Analytics: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For more information about interest-based advertising and your choices, visit these sites: Digital Advertising Alliance, Network Advertising Initiative, and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe.
For more information about cookies in general, including how cookies are set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.