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LEGAL NOTICE

Cookies Policy

(“Company”, “we“, “us“, and “our“)

 

Introduction
This policy works alongside our Privacy Statement. The purpose of this policy explains how we uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites and other similar software applications and/or mobi-sites, (“Website“). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of information stored on your computer, smart phone or device by the web browser for record-keeping purposes.
We use different types of cookies to optimize our services and your experience on our Website. More information on the types of cookies that we use and their specific purpose is set out below. Further, more information on how we may use cookies can be found in our Privacy Statement [link].

Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies for a number of purposes including in order to:
grant you access to restricted content;
tailor our Website’s functionality to you by letting us remember your specific preferences, location or device type;
improve how our Website performs;
understand who our users/audience are so that we can provide content most relevant to you;
allow third parties to provide services to our Website; and
help us deliver interest-based advertising where appropriate, in compliance with the applicable laws.
You, as a user, can choose which types of cookies to allow and can change your preferences at any time. However, disabling cookies may affect your experience on the Website.

Types of Cookies:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary in to provide you with Services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas and cannot be switched off in our system. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some functionalities or parts of our Website may then cease to work.

Performance and Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain services and functionality may become unavailable.

Analytics and Customization Cookies
These cookies collect information used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.

Advertising Cookies
These cookies (which may be set by third parties) are used in order to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements based on your interests.
On our Website we may use the following, but not necessarily only, Google Advertising Features:

AdWords Remarketing: which “uses behaviour, demographic, and interest data to identify users who are likely to convert, and then allows you to target those users with remarketing campaigns through Google Ads”;
Demographics and Interests Reporting: which provides “insight into the age, gender, and purchase interests of users, which you can use to better target your advertisements”;
Google Display Network (GDN) Impression Reporting: which measures the “impact of unclicked GDN Display ad impressions on conversions and site behaviour”.

Social Networking Cookies
These cookies are used to enable you to share, through third party social networking and other Websites, any pages and content that you find interesting on our Websites These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.

Google Analytics and External Tools
On our Website, we use third-party service providers and tracking technologies (such as beacons and pixels) to monitor and analyse user behaviour and the use of our Website and services.
This includes but is not limited to Google Analytics: which is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports Website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Services. This data is then shared with other Google services and Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out your activity on the Website being made available to Google Analytics by installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Controlling and Deleting Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can view and edit cookies by looking in the cookies’ directory of your browser installation (you can visit your browser’s help menu for more information).
Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with Services. Other cookies, however, are not required for the Website to work but may enhance your browsing and Service experience. If you do not accept these cookies though, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website and Services.

Amendments
We may amend this Policy and/ or any of the documents incorporated under it by reference from time to time.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, any such amendment will come into effect and become part of any agreement you have with the Company when notice is given to you of the change by publication on our Website and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. It is your responsibility to check the Website often


Date: 7 July 2021