Cookies Policy

This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website. This Cookies Policy is effective from 16 May 2018.

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.

About cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

• used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
• strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First and third party cookies

Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit allaboutcookies.org

A list of cookies used on our website.

Essential cookies	These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested.
Preferences	These cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Functional cookies	These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality
Analytical/performance cookies	Analytical/performance cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. We use Google Analytics cookies on our website. Google Analytics cookies help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on, your location (based on your IP address)
Third party cookies	Third parties use cookies to analyse your use of our website and/or to display advertisements (including third party advertisements) to you.

How to accept or reject cookies

There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies [and similar technologies] . Some of the main methods of doing so are described below:

You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.

You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.

You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting allaboutcookies.org

Accepting or rejecting cookies

Browser settings

You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:

• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
• Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.

Manage Third party cookies:

Google Adsettings

You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here https://adssettings.google.com/ and by:

• unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
• switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).

Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

DoubleClick DART Cookie

DoubleClick DART Cookie Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Advertising networks - Opt Out/ In

• Cookies Adverline : https://www.adverline.com/privacy/privacy.html
• Cookies Adyoulike : https://www.adyoulike.com/privacy_policy_fr.php
• Cookies Amazon : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010
• Cookies Criteo : https://www.criteo.com/fr/privacy/
• Cookies Dailymotion : http://www.dailymotion.com/legal/cookiespolicy
• Cookies DoubleClick for Publishers : https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated
• Cookies Google Adsense: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=fr
• Cookies Outbrain : http://www.outbrain.com/fr/legal/privacy
• Cookies Quantum : http://quantum-advertising.com/adchoice.html
• Cookies Quantcast : https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/
• Cookies Rubicon Project : http://rubiconproject.com/rubicon-project-yield-optimization-privacy-policy/
• Cookies Smart Adserver : http://smartadserver.fr/societe/privacy-policy/
• Cookies Taboola : https://www.taboola.com/cookie-policy
• Cookies TheTradeDesk : https://www.thetradedesk.com/general/privacy-policy
• Cookies Weborama : https://weborama.com/opt-out-3/
• Cookies Yahoo.com : https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/cookies/
• Cookies Youtube : https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=fr

Facebook Pixel

Disconnect for Facebook

You can install a browser add-on tool called ‘Disconnect Facebook pixel and FB tracking’. This will stop Facebook tracking you on third party websites. You can install the too here:

• For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect-facebook-pixel/nnkndeagapifodhlebifbgbonbfmlnfm?hl=en
• For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/facebook-disconnect/

European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool

You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking ‘Your Ad Choices’, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the ‘Off’ option.