What is a cookie?

The term “cookie” refers to a small data file consisting solely of a set of textual information that the website transmits to the web browser on your computer’s hard drive, either temporarily during your visit or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform different functions (for example, distinguishing you from visitors to another website or remembering certain information about you such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve your user experience
Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains certain anonymous information. A cookie usually contains the name of the cookie field, the cookie’s lifetime and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).

Types of cookies

The main types of cookies are described below
Session cookies These are temporary cookies that remain in your device’s browser cookie file only during your visit and are deleted when you close the browser.
Persistent cookiesThese remain in your device’s browser cookie file even after you close your browser, sometimes for a year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifetime of each cookie). Persistent cookies are used when the site administrator may need to know who you are for more than one visit (e.g. to remember your username or your site configuration preferences).
First-party cookies These are cookies that are installed in your browser and/or on your device’s hard drive by the website you are visiting. This involves assigning a unique identifier to you in order to track your website browsing. Website creators often use first-party cookies for visit management and identification purposes.
Third party cookies These are cookies used by third parties, such as social networks, to track your visits to the various websites they advertise. The site administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.

Cookies on this site and how to manage them

On this website, we use cookies to improve your user experience. The functionality of the site will be significantly affected if you disable or object to the use of cookies. See the following information about the third-party cookies we use on this site, including how to disable them and the effect of disabling them on the functionality of the site. If you need help on how to manage certain types of cookies, including how to control or delete them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org .

Cookies Google Analytics

Google Analytics cookies are performance analysis/logging cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. These cookies can tell us how many visitors use the site, the time and duration of the visit, and information about how visitors navigate the site. This information helps us to improve the way our website works. It is anonymous information and does not contain any personal information.
The information collected by Google Analytics cookies about our website is transferred to and stored on Google’s servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy.
For more information about Google Analytics, please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Video provider cookies

Video providers may place cookies on your device if you watch their video on our site.
If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to view embedded videos on our site.
Social media cookies

Third party social networks may place cookies on your device if you choose to share a page of our website with another third party social network site by clicking on one of the “share” buttons.
If you disable these cookies, you will not be able to share any of our content with third party social networks.

All web traffic (file transfer) between this website and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us. These third party data controllers have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation referred to in this document.

For any of your personal information stored in our database, all necessary steps will be taken to make it as secure as possible.
We will report any unlawful breach of our database or any third party data processing database to all concerned parties as well as the authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable form has been stolen.