Effective: 11 December 2020
COOKIES:
As you navigate through and interact with our Sites, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies (“Cookies”) to collect certain information to authenticate you, and to collect information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Information that is collected by most browsers, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, device type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system version, Internet browser type and version and the type and version of the Sites that you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Sites function properly.
- An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number that is automatically assigned to your device from which you access our Sites by your Internet Service Provider and is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you visit the Sites, along with the time of the visit and the activity on the Sites. We and our service providers use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating Sites usage levels, helping diagnose server problems, administering the Sites and determining your approximate geographic location.
The information we collect automatically is information that includes personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect from you in other ways or that we receive from third parties. We may use the information for marketing or analytical purposes. Cookie information helps us to operate and improve our Sites and to deliver a better and more personalised service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customise and improve our Sites according to your individual interests and usage.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognise you when you return to our Sites.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Sites.
We may use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are required for the operation of our Sites. They include, for example, cookies that help ensure that the content of a page loads quickly and effectively.
Analytical or performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Sites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Sites work.Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our Sites, which enables us to personalize content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Sites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our Sites and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyse information about use of the Sites and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. We do not control Google’s tracking technologies or how they are used. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please note that third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Sites.
As of the Effective Date listed above, there is no commonly accepted response for Do Not Track signals initiated by browsers. Therefore, we do not respond to such signals or to other mechanisms that provide the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information regarding your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. We do not control how third parties may use information they gather, including through Cookies or other content third parties may provide on our Sites.
ADDITIONAL COOKIE INFORMATION:
You can lean more about cookies we use on this website by clicking here.
