COOKIES POLICY
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1. What is a “Cookie”?
A cookie is a piece of data sent by a web server to a web browser, where it is stored. This data is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page, enabling the web server to identify and track the web browser. Cookies may be both “persistent” or “session”. Session cookies are used to track your activity while navigating the website. Persistent cookies help the website recognize you upon your visits.
Session cookies are removed from your computer upon closing your browser, while persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deletion or until they reach a specified expiry date.
2. Cookies on this Website
We may utilise both "session" cookies and "persistent" cookies on this website.3. What is the purpose of utilizing cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies serve a multitude of functions, including streamlining your page navigation, preserving your preferences, and enhancing overall user experiences. Additionally, they contribute to displaying online advertisements that are more tailored to your interests. Moreover, cookies assist in analyzing the utilization of our websites and online content (referred to as analytics cookies), and they also facilitate the monitoring of interactions on our websites and online content with social media (such as links to social media sites and like buttons).
4. Our Cookie Usage
Cookies do not inherently contain any personally identifying information about you. However, we may connect the personal data we retain about you to the information stored in and collected from cookies. The information derived from your interaction with our cookies may serve the following purposes:
a. Tracking your journey while you navigate our website.
b. Enhancing the overall usability of the website.
c. Analysing the usage patterns of our website.
d. Administering and managing the website effectively.
e. Enhancing fraud prevention measures and bolstering website security.
f. Personalizing our website to cater to your preferences.
5. Cookies for marketing and analytics
Our Website employs Google Analytics to analyse the website's usage. It uses cookies to generate statistical information about website usage, which is stored on users' computers. The data produced regarding website usage is used to generate reports. Google stores this information, and you can access Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy .
We may display interest-based advertisements through Google Adsense on our website. These ads are personalized by Google based on your interests, tracked by cookies as you browse the web. You can manage your interests and preferences using Google's Ads Preference Manager: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. Opting out of the Adsense partner network cookie is possible via: https://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html . However, clearing your browser's cookies will reset this opt-out. To maintain your opt-out for a specific browser, use the Google browser plug-in: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin .
Most browsers enable you to reject all cookies, while some allow rejecting only third-party cookies. For instance, in Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by navigating to "Tools," "Internet Options," "Privacy," and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector. However, blocking all cookies may negatively impact the usability of various websites, including this one.
6. Website Visitors
We collect, record and may analyze information from visitors to our website. We may record your IP address and use cookies. Furthermore, we collect and process any personal data that you volunteer to share with us via our website forms, such as when you register for events or sign up for information and newsletters. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a subject area. If you provide us with your social media details, we will retrieve publicly available information about you from social media.
7. Consent for Cookies
In most cases we will need your consent to use cookies on this website. The exceptions are where the cookie is essential for us to provide you with offerings on this website, that you have requested, or essential to the inherent functionality of the website. Where we wish to use cookies that require your consent you will be asked to consent through a checkbox pop-upon the website homepage that you will have to answer to gain full access to the website.
8. Turn Off or Opt-Out of Cookies
Rejecting cookies may restrict your browsing experience on our website related to important features such as login, location-specific data, and other demographic dependent information.
However, you will be provided with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of cookies while consenting by controlling the collection of cookies in the cookie settings provided on the cookie banner.9. Third-Party Cookies
We do not share cookie information with any other website, nor do we sell this data to any third party. We work with third party suppliers who may also set cookies on our website. By consenting to the use of cookies on our site you will be consenting to the use of these cookies.
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LAST UPDATED: 1st OCTOBER 2023