Cookies policy

1.  What Is a Cookie or Similar Technology?

We use cookies on our websites. A cookie is a small text file which asks permission to be placed on your device when you use our website. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual, and can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

2. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technology

Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other visitors to our websites. Cookies help us provide you with a better experience when browsing our websites and they also allow us to improve our websites.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your device. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Some cookies will be essential for the functionality of the webpage, however some will be analytical and will therefore require your consent before being stored on your device.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

We use the following cookies:

1. Essential cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that track your consent settings.
2. Analytical or performance cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

We use cookies to:

• Ensure your security and privacy when in our secure sites
• Temporarily store input information in our calculators, tools, illustrations and demonstrations
• Provide you with ads that are more relevant to you and your interests, and improve our targeting and enhance your journey through our sites and partner sites
• Improve our understanding of how you navigate through our sites so we can identify improvements
• Evaluate our sites’ advertising and promotional effectiveness (we own the anonymous data collected and don’t share it with anyone); and
• We use both our own (first-party) and partner companies’ (third-party) cookies to support these activities

Please note some of the cookies listed are from third parties over which we have no control. These third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.

3. How Can I Manage Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager.

The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential, as they ensure your security and privacy when you use our secure sites, as well as enabling you to move around a website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you’ve asked for (such as access to secure areas) can’t be provided. These cookies don’t gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.

This category cannot be disabled.

Whats Happens To Cookies That Have Been Downloaded In The Past?

If you’ve disabled one or more cookie categories, we may still use information collected from existing cookies, but we’ll stop using the disabled cookies to gather any further information. You can delete existing cookies from your browser.

Your Rights With Respect To Personal Data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
• Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
• Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
• If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
• Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
• Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).

Social Website Cookies

To facilitate the “Like” or share features, we have included sharing buttons on our website for certain social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and X. These social media platforms may recognise you and collect traffic log information about your visit to our company page, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy and cookies policies of those companies – please visit those for further information. We only use the traffic log information for statistical analysis purposes.