1. Objective
This policy provides information on the types of cookies used and explains why they are being used. This information aims to broaden your understanding of what cookies are and how they track your online behaviour when you visit our site so that you have all the information required to give informed and express consent on the collection and storing of your browsing habit data.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text that hold small bits of information. Cookie files are stored on your device by your web browser. Cookies help ensure websites function properly, help make websites more secure, provide a better user experience, help us understand the website’s performance, and allow us to analyze what works and what needs to be improved.
3. Why do we use cookies?
First-party and third-party cookies
As with most online services, our website uses first- and third-party cookies for various reasons. First-party cookies are mostly required to ensure our site functions properly; they do not collect any identifiable personal data.
The third-party cookies used on our site mainly serve to understand site performance and user behaviour, ensure our services are secure, provide ads that could interest users, improve overall user experiences, and speed up subsequent visits to our site.
4. Cookie categories
Strictly necessary cookies — These cookies are used for authentication, to prevent fraud, and to provide the services requested.
Functional cookies — These cookies are used to remember certain information about users such as settings and preferences (e.g., language) when they revisit a website. These cookies are not used to track users when they visit other sites.
Analytics cookies — These cookies are used to measure the performance of our website and online services. We use the information collected through these cookies to improve our sites and the services and products we offer.
Targeting and advertising cookies — These cookies are used to see which websites users visit to show them personalized ads.
5. How to manage cookie preferences?
In addition, different browsers offer different ways to block and delete website cookies. You can change your browser’s clear cache and cookie settings. Below are links to support pages that explain how to manage and clear cookies for the most commonly used web browsers.
If you use another browser, consult your browser’s official support documents.