What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies are very useful and enable an internet site to recognize you, log when you visit a particular page, provide a secure connection to a website and enhance your user experience by: improving your browsing comfort, and/ or adapting the content of a page to your areas of interest.

How does our Site use Cookies?

We may use information collected from our Cookies to identify user behavior and to serve content and offers based on your profile, and in order to enhance the convenience of the users of our Site.

Information on the Types of Cookies that are used on our Site

We have provided details of the types of Cookies that are used on our Site as well as other relevant and useful information on the Cookies. You can also find more information on the Cookies when you click the pop-up window “Cookie Preferences”.

• Necessary Cookies:

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.    You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

• Analytical Cookies:

These Cookies are used by us or third-party service providers to analyze how our Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, we use cookies to know which country you are in when you request a service to help base the contents on your location. We also use some Cookies from Google Analytics to obtain web analytics and intelligence about our Site. These tools use programming code to collect information about your interaction with our Site, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on and how long you are on our Site. These tools do not store any personal identifiable information.

• Functionality Cookies:

These Cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you visit our Site in order to provide enhanced, more personalized features to you. The types of information collected by Functionality Cookies are, language preference, and the region you are located in.

• Performance Cookies:

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

• Advertising and Retargeting Cookies:

These Cookies save information from your browsing history in order to record your interests and your browsing path on our Site. We may use advertising and targeting cookies for retargeting, which enables our advertising partners to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our Site. Without these Cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests.

How do I refuse or withdraw my consent to the use of cookies?

If you do not want Cookies to be placed on your device, we suggest you to set your preferences regarding Cookies. By clicking 

“Customize” 

on the bottom of each webpage, you can select the types of Cookies our Site uses. You can change your preferences at any time; you can also withdraw the consent you have previously given to us.

If you wish to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent our Site from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your “Cookie Preferences” choice as described above.