What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites you visit, enabling certain features and improving your browsing experience. They allow a website to recognise your device, store some information about your preferences or past actions, and help deliver a smoother and more personalised experience.
Types of Cookies We Use
We utilize a range of cookies to support a secure, high-performance and insight-driven browsing experience across our website:
- Essential cookies: Required for core website functions such as page navigation, secure access to forms, and basic site features. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Performance cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our pages, for example which sections are most frequently viewed or how quickly content loads. This information is used in aggregate to improve speed, reliability, and usability.
- Functionality cookies: Enable enhanced features and personalisation, such as remembering your settings or preferences so that you do not need to reconfigure them on every visit.
- Analytical cookies: Support our data analytics and business intelligence activities by providing anonymised insights into user behaviour, navigation paths, and content engagement patterns.
How We Use Cookies
Cookies help us distinguish you from other users of our website, while still analysing behaviour only at an aggregated level. We use them to:
- Remember your preferences and choices, such as previously selected options or dismissed notifications.
- Maintain the reliability, security, and availability of key site features.
- Measure and optimise the performance of our pages, calls-to-action, and navigation flows.
- Support continuous improvement of our services, content, and user journeys based on evidence-driven insights.
Third-Party Cookies
Our website may use third-party cookies from trusted analytics and technology providers. These cookies help us gather anonymized usage data, such as page views, time on site, and interaction patterns, which we use to assess and improve the effectiveness of our services and communications.
Third-party cookies operate under the respective providers' privacy and cookie policies. Where applicable, we seek to ensure that any third parties process information in a way that is compatible with applicable data protection laws and our own commitment to transparency.
Managing Cookies
You can control and manage cookies at any time through your browser settings. Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- Block all cookies.
- Block cookies from specific websites.
- Delete existing cookies from your device.
- Receive notifications before a cookie is stored.
Please note that disabling or blocking certain cookies, particularly essential or functionality cookies, may impact your ability to use some parts of our website or degrade your overall browsing experience.
Cookie Duration
Cookies set on our website may have different lifespans depending on their purpose:
- Session cookies: These cookies are temporary and are deleted from your device when you close your browser. They support core functionality during your current visit.
- Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them. They enable us to remember your preferences and behaviours between visits and to provide a more consistent experience over time.
Consent to Cookie Usage
By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy. Where required by applicable law, we will present a clear cookie banner or preference mechanism to capture and record your consent before non-essential cookies are placed on your device.
Policy Updates
We may occasionally update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in technology, legal requirements, or our service offerings. Any updates will be published on this page, and the revised version will apply from the date it is posted. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.