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    Information about our use of cookies

    Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

    A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

    We use the following cookies:

    1. Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
    2. Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
    3. Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
    4. Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will 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.

    You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

    Cookie:

    _ga

    Name:

    _ga

    Purpose:

    Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

    Expires:

    2 years

    Cookie:

    _gat

    Name:

    _gat

    Purpose:

    Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate

    Expires:

    1 minute

    Cookie:

    _gid

    Name:

    _gid

    Purpose:

    Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

    Expires:

    24 hours

    Cookie:

    _gac_

    Name:

    _gac_

    Purpose:

    Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.

    Expires:

    90 days

    Cookie:

    AMP_TOKEN

    Name:

    AMP_TOKEN

    Purpose:

    Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.

    Expires:

    30 seconds to 1 year

    Facebook Remarketing

    Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from this website and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. Facebook uses a Custom Audience Pixel that is activated when you visit our website. A unique “cookie” is placed on your browser and this means you may see our ads on Facebook after you have visited our website. To opt out of Facebook’s collection and use of information for ad targeting visit https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

    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.

    You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

    Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after expiry periods in the table above.

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