What Are Cookies
Cookies are small files that can be placed on your device that allow us to recognize and remember you. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device. When you visit our sites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies and other tracking technologies.
What are web beacons?
Web beacons are transparent graphic images placed on websites/e-mails to monitor user activities. Web beacons are similar to cookies and are often used in combination with cookies.
What do we use cookies for?
We use cookies to:
provide, secure and improve our services;
remember your preferences;
recognizing you when you visit our website;
personalizing and tailoring ads to your interests.
To accomplish these purposes, we also may link information from cookies with other personal information we hold about you.
What are the different types of cookies?
First-party cookies
First-party cookies are placed on your device directly by us. For example, we use first-party cookies to adapt our website to your browser’s language preferences and to better understand your use of our website.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are placed on your device by our partners and service providers. For example, we use third-party cookies to measure user numbers on our website or to enable you to share content with others across social media platforms.
Session cookies
Session cookies are used for a variety of reasons, including to learn more about your use of our website during one single browser session and to help you to use our website more efficiently. Session cookies last only until you close your browser.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies are primarily used to help you quickly sign-in to our website again and for analytical purposes. Persistent cookies have a longer lifespan and are not automatically deleted when you close your browser.
What Cookie do We Use?
Based on functionality, cookies can be classified as below:
Necessary cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow us to remember your preferences and to provide more personalized, such as customizing certain pages of the site, remembering if we have ever asked you to participate in promotions and other services you have requested. All these features help us to improve your visit and how we communicate in some aspects. The information collected may be anonymized and we cannot track your browsing activity on other sites.
Analytic Cookies
These cookies collect information on how our site is used. To improve our site, we track data for statistical and analytical purposes, for example, tracking the number of visits and which pages visitors visit most often. All information from these cookies is aggregated and used only to improve our services.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies are used to make targeting and advertising more relevant to you and your interests. These marketing cookies are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of our project advertising. These cookies are used to enable sharing or following of content on social media that you are interested in, as well as content on our site. We only collect non-personal information with our cookies, such as your IP address. We never share the information we collect from cookies with other businesses for marketing purposes.
Preference Cookies
Preference 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. By using our website, you consent to the use of these cookies. If you do not wish to accept any cookies or certain types of cookies/web beacons, you can change your browser’s settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies.
Cookie preferences
Users can mostly control their cookie preferences by managing the browser settings. For more information about these controls and to exercise your cookie preferences, visit these sites for the browser you are using on Individual Browsers/ Mobile Device Browsers/ Flash Player or device’s help material.
Please however note, that, if you delete cookies or do not accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not get displayed properly.
Changes to this cookie notice
We may periodically update this notice to comply with privacy regulations, describe new website features, or to add and/or remove cookies that we use.