Cookies Policy

When you visit our website, we may place small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies and web beacons. Cookies provide additional functionality to the website to enable us to better match your interests and preferences. Some of the cookies placed by us or by partners are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of this website. Others are optional and are used for different purposes (Analytics/Functionality/Advertisement) detailed below. We invite you to inform us of your choices regarding the use of optional cookies on your terminal, either by accepting them all, refusing them all, or by personalizing the cookie setting. Your consent to the installation of optional cookies is free and can be withdrawn at any time.

Our website may also use web beacons and/or other technologies. When you access certain pages on our website, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us. These technologies usually work in conjunction with cookies. If you turn off cookies, web beacons may still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded. We process the information gathered through the use of cookies and other technologies such as web beacons to better understand users’ interests to aim to improve user satisfaction and to deliver information which may be of interest to the user.

We collect certain information which is recorded by the standard operation of our Internet servers and those of our partners on an anonymous basis, such as the operating system and type of browser you are using, the sections of the website you visit, and the website pages read and images viewed. These files cannot be used to identify you personally however these pieces of information are used to improve services for you.

The non-identifiable information collected is used on an aggregate basis and in a non-personally identifiable form, including: (i) for Website and system administration purposes, (ii) to improve the website, (iii) to conduct internal reviews of the number of visitors to the website; (iv) to help us better understand visitors’ use of our Website; (v) to respond to specific requests from our visitors; and (vi) to protect the security or integrity of our Website when necessary.

More information on our Privacy Policy can be found here.

Removing and Disabling Cookies

With most Internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block the creation of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored, although doing so may affect your use of the website and your ability to access certain features of the website. Please refer to your browser instructions or the help section of your browser to learn more about these functions. If you are browsing our website using a mobile device, you will need to refer to your mobile device operation manual for information on how to remove or disable cookies.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ which contains comprehensive information on cookies in general, including how to disable or remove them on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your desktop machine. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.

If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

Cookies set by us

The X-Mapping cookie is sent by the server to keep the user’s browser sessions intact by using the same server, even if a page is reloaded.

Necessary

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. Learn more about necessary cookies.

Analytics / Performance

These cookies help us to understand how visitors engage with the website. We may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics. In addition to reporting site usage statistics, data collected may also be used, together with some of the advertising cookies described, to help show more relevant ads across the web and to measure interactions with the ads we show. Learn more about analytics cookies.

Functionality

We use a set of cookies that are optional for the website to function. They are usually only set in response to information provided to the website to personalize and optimize your experience as well as remember your chat history. Learn more about functionality cookies.

Advertisement / Targeting

We use cookies to make our ads more engaging and valuable to site visitors. Some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user; to improve reporting on ad campaign performance; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. Learn more about advertisement cookies.

Third Party Cookies

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast. For further details about the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website.

Opting out

To stop Google Analytics collecting this information, use the following link to opt out of all Google Analytics: Google Analytics – Opt Out.

Other Technologies

Hotjar helps us improve the user-end experience of our website by allowing us to analyse the sections of the website visited by you. To opt out from Hotjar collecting your data then please use the following link to disable tracking:

https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out.