Information on our use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to differentiate between your used preferences and those of our other website users. This helps us to offer you a better user experience when visiting our website and allows us to optimize the website.
Cookies and similar technologies do not, however, permit the systematic collection of data that would make it possible to identify users of our website. They simply help us to improve the functioning of our website, to understand what interests our users and to measure the effectiveness of our website content.
Following recent changes to the legislation, all websites targeted at certain areas of the European Union are obliged to request permission for the use or storage of cookies and similar technologies on computers and mobile devices. This Cookie Policy provides you with clear and complete information on the cookies we use and their purpose.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text and data file that we store in your browser or on your computer hard disk. This enables us to retain your preferences when using our website.
Unless you have set your browser to refuse cookies, our system will place these cookies as soon as you visit our website.
Types of cookie
Cookies can be classified on the basis of origin, function and duration.
First-party cookies are the cookies placed by a website that is being visited by the user at that moment.
Third-party cookies are cookies placed by another domain name than that which the user is visiting. If a third party places a cookie via the website that a user is currently visiting, this is then a third-party cookie (e.g. cookies placed by Google, Twitter and Facebook).
Functional cookies are cookies that ensure that the website functions as it should (e.g. cookies for log-in or registration, language preferences). Functional cookies are, logically enough, first-party cookies.
Non-functional cookies are cookies that can be placed for statistical, social, targeting and commercial purposes. They have nothing to do with the purely technical support for the website. Cookies with statistical purposes make it possible to see which website pages you visit, where your computer is located, etc. Cookies with social purposes enable the user to directly share the content of the website visited with others via social media. Cookies with a targeting purpose enable a profile to be compiled on the basis of your surfing behaviour to enable the advertisements displayed to be adapted to your interests. Cookies with commercial purposes retain details of how many and which advertisements are shown to a user. Non-functional cookies may be either first-party or third-party cookies.
Permanent cookies: These cookies remain present on the user’s device for the time set in the cookie. They are activated every time the user visits the website that placed the cookie (e.g. cookies placed by social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Google Analytics, etc). Most non-functional cookies are permanent cookies.
Session cookies: These cookies enable us to simplify the user’s operations and to link them together during a browser session. A browser session begins when a user opens a browser screen and ends when he closes the browser screen. Session cookies are placed temporarily. As soon as you close the browser, all the session cookies are removed. Most functional cookies are session cookies.
Your permission
By using our website you accept the use of cookies. To be able to use our website to optimal effect you need to accept these cookies, which you do via your browser settings.
You block cookies by activating the browser settings that make it possible to refuse the placing of cookies. If you use these browser settings to block cookies it is possible that you will no longer have access to (certain sections of) our website. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully for more information.
If at any time you want to withdraw your permission you must remove your cookies using your browser settings. For further information on removing or blocking cookies please visit the following website: http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=2.
Changing your browser settings
We inform you that web browsers also enable you to adjust your cookie settings. These settings can usually be accessed via the “Options” or “Favourites” menu on your web browser. To better understand these settings, the following links could be useful. If not, use the “help” function in our web browser to consult for more details.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Managing performance cookies
It is possible to opt out of having your anonymised browsing activity within websites recorded by performance cookies. We use the following companies and you can opt out of their cookies by clicking on the relevant links. Don’t forget that by not allowing performance cookies, it stops us from being able to learn what people like or don’t like about our website so that we can make it better.
Google Analytics: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Managing advertising cookies
Please note that if you want to opt out from receiving targeted advertising, this does not mean that you will receive less advertising when you use our website. This just means that the advertising you see will not be as customised to you.
If you would like to change your data preferences on this Website please visit our consent management platform.
You can visit the Internet Advertising Bureau’s consumer advice site, http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. This will give you a list of all cookies that are currently set on your device and how to opt out of each of them.
We have also set out links below to some of the specific partners we work with who set cookies on our websites, and therefore on your computer, each of which have instructions on how to opt out of their cookies.
Affiliate Future – http://www.affiliatefuture.com/Legal/privacy
Awin – https://www.awin.com/gb/legal/privacy-policy
Google – http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/opt-out.html