1. What are cookies?
Cookies are text files that contain small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our website. Our website uses both persistent and session cookies. With session cookies you will be ableto navigate from page to page within our website, as it remembers any information entered. Such cookies are deleted when you close your browser or after a short time. With persistent cookies, our website is able to remember your preferences and settings for your future visits to our website. Such cookies expire after a determinedperiod. Our website uses cookies in the following ways:
1. How we use Cookies
Cookies are used in the following ways on our website:
- Google Analytics- we use Google Analytics to provide us with information onyour use of our website. With this information, we are able to compile statistics for the improvement of our website and the services we offer. Thus as part of this process, Google uses cookies to collect anonymous information, such as the number of the website visitors, the pages visited and the length of time spent on the website.
- Mobile site- we use persistent cookies and session cookies on our mobile site to enable effective workings of the site, as well as to remember your preferences and settings.
- Email subscriptions service –we session cookies in our email subscriptions service to track recipients’ interaction with our email updates and to facilitate our online subscriptions manager website.
- Video content- we use an online video software provider to host and play our video content, that uses session cookies to collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you when you view our videos, including your IP address, browser type, Internet Service Provider and operating system. Information is also collected with regard to how videos are played, such as when the videos were played and for long. This information helps them monitor the use of their software, and helps us monitor how our videos are being viewed.
- Contact us –The session cookie on our interactive contact us page enables you to contact us via our website.
We use cookies in these ways to improve the functionality of our website as well as your experience when using it.
3. Disabling cookies
If you do not agree to the use of these cookies please disable them by following the instructions for your browser or use the automated disabling tool where available. However, please note that some of the services will not function so well / you may not be able to access some areas of our website.
By continuing to use our website without changing your settings, you consent to our use of cookies as described above. You can unsubscribe from our email updates at any time either by using the link provided at the bottom of the email or by contacting [email protected]
Read our Privacy policy.
4. Privacy policy updates
Our website content and cookie use may change without notice, thus resulting in the possible change of our Privacy notice and Cookie Policy. We therefore encourage you to review them when you visit the website to stay informed of our use of your personal data.
