Information about Cookies

Our website uses cookies. These are small text files stored in your browser or device by the websites you visit. Cookies help us distinguish you from other users and collect information about how our website is used (e.g. number of visitors, time spent on the site, or content that attracted their attention).

This information is anonymous (e.g. which browser you use and the domain name of your internet service provider) and is used solely to improve and ensure the proper functioning of our website. We do not attempt to identify individual visitors unless they have provided their contact details via one of the forms on the site.

We may use the following types of cookies:

1. Necessary cookies – These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website. They include, for example, cookies that allow you to log into secure areas of the site, use a shopping cart, or make online payments.
2. Analytical/performance cookies – These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how users move around the site. This helps us improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring users can easily find what they are looking for.
3. Functional cookies – These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize content and remember your preferences (such as language selection).
4. Targeting cookies – These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website and advertising more relevant to your interests. We may share this information with third parties (such as advertising providers) for this purpose.
5. Flash cookies – Our website uses Adobe Flash Player to deliver audio and video content. Flash Player uses Flash cookies, for example, to store video playback settings.

First-party and third-party cookies

Whether a cookie is “first-party” or “third-party” depends on the domain that places the cookie on your device or browser. First-party cookies are set by the website you are currently visiting. Third-party cookies are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting.

Persistent cookies

These cookies remain on your device for the duration specified in their settings. They are activated each time you visit the website that created the cookie.

Session cookies

These cookies allow website operators to link a user’s actions during a single browser session. They are created when the browser window is opened and deleted when it is closed.