Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Information about the cookies used on this site.

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.

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.

This site uses the following types of cookies:

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. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

  • __utma – performance cookie: Used for Google Analytics – tracks number of visits to the site. Never expires.
  • __utmb – performance cookie: Used for Google analytics – tracks length of time on the site. Expires after 30 minutes.
  • __utmc – performance cookie: Used for Google analytics- tracks length of time on the site (works with __utmb). Expires after 30 minutes.
  • __utmz – performance cookie: Used for Google analytics- tracks where the visitor came from. Expires after 6 months.

We may access cookies stored on your computer when you visit our website or when you open an email from us. We are able to do this by including web beacons (also known as clear GIFs or web bugs) in our emails. Our web beacons do not store additional information on your computer but, by communicating with our cookies on your computer they can tell us when you have opened emails from us and what pages you look at.

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 performance cookies or tracking cookies.

To delete cookies or web beacons that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies or web beacons. You can 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 strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Our goal is to respect your privacy. To help us improve our privacy practices please contact us, we welcome your comments and queries.

If you would like more information about cookies, you might like to visit www.allaboutcookies.org