COOKIE POLICY
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A ‘cookie’ is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while browsing. When you visit a site that uses cookies for the first time, a cookie is downloaded onto your computer/mobile device so that the next time you visit that site, your device will remember useful information such as items added to the shopping cart, visited pages, or logging in options.
Cookies are widely used to make websites work or to work more efficiently, and our site relies on cookies to optimize user experience and for features and services to function correctly.
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
There are different types of cookies. They all work in the same way but have minor differences, and we may use the following:
Session cookies
Session cookies last only for your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. These facilitate various tasks, such as allowing a website to identify that a user of a particular device is navigating from page to page, supporting website security or basic functionality.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies last after you have closed your browser, allowing a website to remember your actions and preferences. Sometimes, persistent cookies are used by websites to provide targeted advertising based upon the device’s browsing history.
We use persistent cookies to analyze customer visits to our site. These cookies help us to understand how customers arrive at and use our site so we can improve the overall service.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website, use its features, and ensure the security of your experience. Without these cookies, services you have requested, such as applying for products and managing your accounts, cannot be provided. These cookies don’t gather information about you for marketing.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages from web pages. All information these cookies collect is only used to improve how a website works and the user experience and to optimize our advertising. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device; however you can block these cookies using your browser settings.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember your choices (such as your username). The information these cookies collect is anonymized (i.e., it does not contain your name, address, etc.), and they do not track your browsing activity across other websites. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device; however you can block these cookies using your browser settings.
Targeting cookies
These cookies collect several pieces of information about your browsing habits. [They are usually placed by third-party advertising networks]. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information is shared with other organizations, such as media publishers. These organizations do this to provide you with targeted adverts more relevant to you and your interests.
Third-party cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks 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.
HOW CAN I EXERCISE CHOICE REGARDING COOKIES AND OTHER TYPES OF ONLINE TRACKING?
Most web browsers allow some control to restrict or block cookies through the browser settings. However, turning off cookies may affect your ability to use certain parts of our website or services.