Cookie policy

What are cookies?

A coo­kie is a small pie­ce of data sto­red in your web brow­ser whi­le you are brow­sing our web­si­te. When you brow­se our web­si­te again in the futu­re, the data sto­red in the coo­kie can be retrie­ved to notify us of your pre­vious activity.

Our coo­kies don’t sto­re per­so­nal infor­ma­tion such as your name or your address. We use coo­kies to enhan­ce the fun­ctio­na­lity of the web­si­te by sto­ring your pre­fe­ren­ces, for exam­ple. We also use coo­kies to impro­ve the per­for­man­ce of our web­si­te in order to pro­vi­de you with a bet­ter user experience.

Which cookies does this site use?

We use Goo­gle Analy­tics, which crea­tes a num­ber of first-party cookies:

• _​ga: regis­ters a uni­que ID that is used to gene­ra­te sta­tis­ti­cal data on how the visi­tor uses the web­si­te. This coo­kie expi­res after 2 years.
• _​gat: used by Goo­gle Analy­tics to throttle request rate, which means that it limits the collec­tion of data on high traf­fic sites. This coo­kie expi­res after 1 day.
• _​gid: regis­ters a uni­que ID that is used to gene­ra­te sta­tis­ti­cal data on how the visi­tor uses the web­si­te. This coo­kie expi­res after 1 day.
• collect: is used to send data to Goo­gle Analy­tics about the visi­to­r’s devi­ce and beha­vior. It tracks the visi­tor across devi­ces and mar­ke­ting chan­nels. This is a ses­sion coo­kie and expi­res when you exit the browser.

We don’t belie­ve that our use of Goo­gle Analy­tics is pri­vacy-intru­si­ve. We use the data that is collec­ted in the follo­wing ways:

• To report, in aggre­ga­te, how our visi­tors find and use our website;
• To unders­tand ove­rall visi­tor behavior;
• To inform how we upda­te and impro­ve our website.

We do allow Goo­gle to use this data to colla­te and aggre­ga­te bench­mar­king data, which they pro­vi­de to us, about simi­lar web­si­tes in our industry. To do this, Goo­gle further anony­mi­zes the analy­tics data by remo­ving all iden­ti­fia­ble infor­ma­tion about our web­si­te. It also com­bi­nes the data with hun­dreds of other anony­mous sites in com­pa­ra­ble industries.

We do not sha­re our analy­tics data with any other third parties.

To opt out of our use of Goo­gle Analy­tics you may wish to con­si­der using the Goo­gle Analy­tics Opt-out Brow­ser Add-on.

How do I manage cookies manually?

You can mana­ge coo­kies manually via your brow­ser, by clic­king the links below:

Safa­ri | Ope­ra | Inter­net Explo­rer | Chro­me | Mozi­lla Firefox

Which third-party cookies does this site use?

In addi­tion to our first-party coo­kies, you may be ser­ved one or more of the follo­wing third-party coo­kies during your visit to our website.

Third-party coo­kies are coo­kies crea­ted by an exter­nal ser­vi­ce when you use a page on our web­si­te. The­se coo­kies are spe­ci­fic to the third-part­y’s domain and so the data held in them can be seen and mana­ged by the third party and not by us. We con­trol whether or not we use the third-party ser­vi­ce with our web­si­te, and how it is inte­gra­ted and pre­sen­ted on our web­si­te. We do not have con­trol over the coo­kies themselves.

We use Goo­gle Maps on our Con­tact Us page to pro­vi­de detai­led infor­ma­tion on how to loca­te our offi­ce. Goo­gle Maps sto­res up to four coo­kies: khcoo­kie, NID, SNID and PREF. We use Goo­gle’s inter­ac­ti­ve maps becau­se we belie­ve they pro­vi­de a help­ful way for our visi­tors to iden­tify how best to tra­vel to us. We use the Goo­gle Maps tools on the basis that Goo­gle adhe­res to its pri­vacy policy and its terms of ser­vi­ce for Goo­gle Maps.

We may use You­Tu­be to host video con­tent. When you view a web page on our site with an embed­ded You­Tu­be video, You­Tu­be crea­tes at least three coo­kies: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, use_​hitbox, and PREF. In some cir­cums­tan­ces you may also find an addi­tio­nal GEO coo­kie. We use the You­Tu­be ser­vi­ce as a con­ve­nien­ce for our visi­tors, and we use it on the basis that Goo­gle adhe­res to its pri­vacy policy.

You­Tu­be’s embed­ded pla­yer currently crea­tes and upda­tes two Flash LSO objects from s.ytimg.com. The LSOs are sound­Da­ta (which appears to sto­re volu­me set­ting pre­fe­ren­ces) and videos­tats (which appears to sto­re per­for­man­ce-rela­ted infor­ma­tion). We have no direct con­trol over You­Tu­be’s use of the data sto­red in this object.

What about social media and sharing tools?

We work with care­fully selec­ted sup­pliers who also use coo­kies on our web­si­te. The­se coo­kies enable cer­tain fea­tu­res that run in con­jun­ction with part­ners such as Face­book, Twit­ter and You­Tu­be to function.

We don’t con­trol the set­ting of some of the­se coo­kies. For more infor­ma­tion plea­se visit the rele­vant web­si­te to view their policies:

Face­book | Twit­ter | Goo­gle

The embed­ded ​‘sha­re’ but­tons on our web pages enable you to easily sha­re con­tent with your con­nec­tions through a num­ber of social net­works. When you click one of the­se but­tons, a coo­kie may be set by the ser­vi­ce you have cho­sen to sha­re con­tent through. We do not con­trol the dis­se­mi­na­tion of the­se cookies.

Face­book | Twit­ter | Goo­gle