Cookie
Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
We provide you with a ‘Cookie Banner’ to enable you to choose if you want to consent to any cookies in addition to the Necessary Cookies which we use to run our site. You can then change your selections by using the Cookie Preferences button at the bottom of any page.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
Types of cookies
Necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Performance and analytics cookies
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting/retargeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you visit, and the links you follow when browsing the internet. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising we show you, both during and after your visit, more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Cookies in use
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| CookieConsent | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| crumb | Session (expires on browser close) | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. |
| ss_cid | 2 years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks their sessions for analytics. |
| ss_cookieAllowed | 30 days | Tracks whether the user has accepted cookie use on the website. |
| ss_cpvisit | 2 years | Records the first visit to the site for visitor analytics. |
| ss_cvisit | 30 minutes | Tracks the current session for the visitor on the site. |
| ss_cvr | 2 years | Tracks the referral source for a visitor's first visit to the site. |
| ss_cvt | 30 minutes | Tracks visitor activity during the current session. |
| SS_lastvisit | 2 years | Records the timestamp of a user’s last visit for analytics. |
| SS_MATTR | 2 years | Tracks marketing attribution, such as how a user arrived at the website. |
| SS_MID | 2 years | Recognizes the user across multiple visits for analytics purposes. |
| test | Session (expires on browser close) | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. |
| test_cookie | 1 day | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| user_segment | Session (expires on browser close) | Groups users into segments for personalized analytics or experiences. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks, affiliated websites, social media sites and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site, or may severely limit functionality.
A cookie is a small file which helps us to analyse web traffic and allows us to respond to you as an individual, tailoring our operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
A cookie does not give us access to your computer or the data stored on it. This policy provides detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them.