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Cookie policy

Cookies are small text files transferred from websites, applications or services to your web browser.  Our website uses cookies to help provide you with the best experience possible.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as expected
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow users to share/link with social networks
  • Gather analytic and usage data to allow us to make improvements to the site
  • Gather analytic and usage data to allow us to optimise our search engine performance
  • To distinguish between humans and bots

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your internet browser are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with the use of cookies. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will mean that our site may not work as you would expect.

The following types of Cookies are used on our website:

Statistics

Statistic cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our website. We use Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how and when users arrive at our site and how they browse or use our site. The data stored by these cookies never shows personal details from which your individual identity can be established.

Functionality

These cookies remember choices you have made such as the country you visit our website from, language preference, text size, fonts, and other customisable parts of web pages. These are then used to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and to make the visits more tailored to your needs. The information these cookies collect are anonymised and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Social buttons

We use ‘social buttons’ to enable visitors to share or bookmark thought leadership content pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites and these sites may log information about your activities on the Internet, including on our site. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information.

Controlling your Cookie Preferences

You can manage website cookies in the settings of your internet browser. If you do make changes to your settings, you may find that certain features may not work as intended.  Please click below for detailed information on how to disable and delete cookies in some commonly used browsers:

Mozilla Firefox®

Microsoft® Internet Explorer

Google Chrome™

Safari®

If you wish to know more about cookies, here are some useful resources that provide detailed information about cookie types, what they are used for and how you can manage your cookie preferences:

www.aboutcookies.org and/or www.allaboutcookies.org

Last updated May 2020