Cookies
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first party cookies. We also use third party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts.
Why do we use Cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies do a lot of different jobs, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
- Assisting you in navigation;
- Assisting in registration to our events, login and your ability to provide feedback;
- Analyzing your use of our products, services or applications;
- Assisting with our promotional and marketing efforts. (including behavioral advertising)
We classify cookies we use in the following categories:
Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are strictly necessary to enable you to move about the site and to provide certain features you have requested. These include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services. For these cookies, we do not need your permission.
Functionality cookies. These cookies ensure that the website stores your choices (e.g. your username, language and location) and offers enhanced and customized functions. They enable us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).Data stored by these cookies may be anonymized and these cookies cannot keep track of your browser activities on other websites.
Performance and Analytics cookies. These cookies gather information on how you use the website. They improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These data are used only to enhance the site’s functionality.. These cookies do not compile information that would identify you. All data compiled by these cookies are aggregated and are therefore anonymous.
Targeting (Marketing) cookies. These cookies are used to (1) deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests; (2) limit the number of times you see an advertisement; (3) help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign; and (4) understand people’s behavior after they view an advertisement. They are usually placed on behalf of advertising networks with the site operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a site and quite often they will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
We use strictly necessary cookies based on our legitimate interest in providing a functional website.
All other cookies (analytics, advertising, functionality) are used only with your consent in accordance with the regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
How you can control cookies
(A) When you first visit our website, a cookie banner will ask for your consent to use optional cookies. You may:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Customize your preferences
(B) Users can modify cookie consent by resetting the cache on the website.
The consent is stored on the user’s device for a maximum of 30 days. At the expiration of this period, the data will be erased and consent shall be provided again.
Third-party Cookies:
Our website will set several types of third-party cookies and we do not control the operation of any of them. The third-party cookies which may be set include:
- Google Analytics – we use Google Analytics to collect data about website usage. This data does not include personally identifiable information. You can view the Google Privacy Policy here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
- Facebook – we use a Facebook pixel to obtain information regarding the activities that users engage in while visiting our web pages. For information on Facebook’s Privacy and Cookie policy, visit https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page.