COOKIE NOTICE
To enhance the usage of this site and to make future improvements to the usability and content on our web site, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.
What are cookies?
Cookies are short strings that are saved, while browsing the website, on your computer, smartphone or tablet and allow our website to recognize you after the first visit and then improve your user experience.
How do we use cookies?
The skinny
Our web site uses cookies to:
- Remember if you have agreed to our use of cookies on this site.
- Allow our third party sharing tool to work and interact with our analytics tool.
- Allow our security tools to monitor usage (and avoid potential attacks).
- Allow us to collect statistics on site usage via a third party analytics tool.
- Allow us to record sessions on our web site so we can evaluate site usage to make improvements.
- Allow us to record profiles of users that visit our web site so we can better target our services.
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but in some cases it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and these cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
The details
We have provided more details below on how cookies are used on our web site, whether they are placed by us or third parties:
Consent cookie
This cookie is first party and placed on your device by our web site.
Initially when you visit our site for the first time, you will receive a notification telling you that we use cookies. When you consent to the use of cookies, we will remember your choice by using a cookie. This will remain on your browser for up to 6 months to remember your preference for the next time your visit us, or, until you delete cookies.
Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a tool we use to manage tags and scripts used by our web site, such as, Google Analytics, Hotjar and Facebook Pixel. GTM is a type of tracking tool where information gathered about your use of this web site flows to the tags and scripts mentioned above, which also monitor your usage of this web site.
The cookies placed by GTM are third party and do NOT directly identify you by your name, email address or phone number. Data collected is processed in their datacentres in the USA.
GTM is provided by Google LLC and details of their privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how visitors engage with our website. With Google Analytics we can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with our website so that we can improve the content, the delivery of information and our products and services.
These cookies are first party and placed on your device by Google Analytics.
These cookies assist in collecting information about your device, operating system, browser type, anonymized IP, page visits on our web site, referring web sites, the time you visited the site, whether you visited before and other technical data.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google opt-out page.
Google Analytics is provided by Google LLC and details of their privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Hotjar
Hotjar assists us in providing our end users, like you, with a better experience and service as well as assist us in diagnosing technical problems and analysing user trends. Most importantly, through Hotjar’s services, the functionality of our web site can be improved, making it more user-friendly, more valuable, and simpler to use for end users like you.
Through the Hotjar service we collect data in a way which does not personally identify you and that is anonymous by using a data suppression option.
Hotjar’s cookie is set to let the service know whether you are included in the sample which is used to generate Heatmaps, Funnels and Recordings. The cookie expires at the end of the session or when you close the browser.
You can opt-out of Hotjar collecting your information by visiting this web page: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out
You can view Hotjar’s end user privacy policy here: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy#enduserenglish
Facebook pixel
The Facebook pixel is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on this web site. The Facebook pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to ads on Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network. Facebook pixel collects cookies and usage data and processes this information in the United States.
For further details please read Facebooks privacy policy here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Facebook Inc. participates in the Privacy Shield program.
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a mailing list service used to manage a database of email addresses and newsletter campaigns. Campaigns are sent to users that opt-in to receive newsletters or electronic messages. Mailchimp collects User data concerning the date and time when a message was viewed by a User, as well as when the User interacted with a message, such as clicking on links in the message. Mailchimp is operated by The Rocket Science Group, LLC. The personal data collected is email address and data is processed in the United States.
You can read their privacy policy here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
Mailchimp participates in the Privacy Shield program.
Google Maps
Google Maps is a map visualisation service provided by Google LLC that allows this Website to integrate maps on various pages of the web site.
The Personal Data collected are Cookies and Usage Data which are processed in the United States. You can view Google LLC privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy Google Inc is a Privacy Shield participant.
How to control cookies
You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Follow the links below for details of how to use common types of browser to disable cookies:
For further details visit aboutcookies.org. Further, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com.
You would need to set your cookie preferences for each device and each browser used for navigating the Internet.