Cookies Policy
Cookies Policy
What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from our website and stored on your device (computer, mobile phone or tablet). It's used to help us improve your browsing experience by providing information about how you use the site.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several purposes:
- To remember your preferences such as language settings
- To keep track of what you're doing during a single session
- To make our website run more smoothly and efficiently
- To help us understand how users interact with our site so we can improve it for everyone
Essential Cookies
These are cookies that must be enabled or they will prevent key functionality on our website. They include:
- Session cookies: used to remember what you're doing during a single session
- Login persistence cookies: keep you logged in after you've closed your browser
- Browser storage technologies (cookies, local storage, and similar): store data locally so we can improve performance
Non-Essential Cookies
These are optional and don't affect basic functionality. They help us:
- Analyze website usage and visitor numbers with tools like Google Analytics
- Improve our marketing efforts based on aggregated user behavior
- Enhance your experience by storing language or display preferences
Session Cookies vs Persistent Cookies
Session cookies are stored temporarily while you're using the site, they expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain stored even after closing and can be removed at any time.
Functional Cookies
We use functional cookies to improve how our website functions for all users:
- To provide live chat support
- For browser language settings (language of text and menu options)
- Store user session data so we don't need multiple pages loaded in your memory.
Analytics Cookies
These help us understand visitor numbers, activity levels, time spent on the site etc., with tools like Google Analytics. They can also provide basic security to reduce spam traffic but are otherwise non-essential for functionality.
Preference and Language Settings
We respect users' wishes about:
- Not using cookies in general (cookie blocking)
- Cookies for a particular service or domain
- Receiving promotional emails from us.User consent is required, opt-out options are provided throughout the site with links to details on how our website functions when cookie-related settings are adjusted.
Browser Cookie Controls
To control how your browser interacts with cookies:
- Block cookies: this can affect some parts of the website's functionality
- Delete or disable cookies permanently for certain websites or in general
- Manage cookie permissions through internet browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc.
Clearing Cookies and Data
It is simple to delete all cookies at any time from your browser settings as explained above.
Please be aware that our website may not run properly with some non-standard security practices activated on the user end of the web connection as many cookie functions (including analytics data) rely on basic network functionality.
