Cookie Policy

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.

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:

  • 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.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.
  • 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).
  • 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:

Name Purpose Source
_ga Used to distinguish users.
Expiration time: 2 years
Google Documentation
_gid Used to distinguish users.
Expiration time: 24 hours
Google Documentation
_gat Used to throttle request rate.
Expiration time: 1 minute
Google Documentation
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary Saves user preference of non-necessary cookies.
Expiration time: 1 year
WordPress
viewed_cookie_policy Saves user cookie policy consent.
Expiration time: 1 year
WordPress
lightbox_locale Records if the user has seen a popup asking them to visit an appropriate version of the website for their language.
Expiration time: end of browser session
WordPress
wordpress_test_cookie Checks if cookies are enabled on the browser to provide an appropriate user experience.
Expiration time: end of browser session
WordPress

Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third parties may include advertising networks and providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services. Third party cookies are likely to be analytical, performance, or targeting cookies.

Google

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may click on the “Cookie Policy” tab present in the bottom right corner of the screen at all times, which will trigger a consent management solution allowing you to reject non-necessary cookies.