Cookie Policy
Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
If at anytime you wish to change your preferences on the cookies we use, you can do so by clicking the privacy icon in the bottom left hand corner of our website.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please find below the cookies we use and the reasons why:
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANONCHK | Non-Necessary | 10 minutes | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user's session ID and also verify the clicks from ads on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalisation as well. |
| AWSALBCORS | Necessary | 7 days | This cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing. |
| CLID | Non-Necessary | 1 year | Used by Microsoft Clarity to identify the first time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisements | Necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Advertisements". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | Necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other". |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | Necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the default button state of each category. |
| IDE | Non-Necessary | 1 year 24 days | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the visitor uses the website to present them with relevant ads. |
| iutk | Non-Necessary | 5 months 27 days | This cookie is used by Issuu analytics system to gather information regarding visitor activity on Issuu products. |
| mc | Non-Necessary | 1 year 1 month | Quantserve sets the mc cookie to anonymously track user behaviour on this website. |
| MUID | Non-Necessary | 1 year 24 days | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. |
| SM | Non-Necessary | session | Set by Microsoft to synchronise the MUID cookie across Microsoft domains. |
| SRM_B | Non-Necessary | 1 year 24 days | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for website visitors. |
| test_cookie | Non-Necessary | 15 minutes | Set by doubleclick.net and used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | Necessary | 1 year | The cookie is set by the cookie consent popup and is used to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| _clck | Non-Necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by Microsoft Clarity to store a user's ID and preferences, and is unique to this site and their browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to this site will be attributed to the same user ID for analytical purposes. |
| _clsk | Non-Necessary | 1 day | This cookie is set by Microsoft Clarity to connect multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. |
| _ga* | Non-Necessary | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gat | Non-Necessary | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rates and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_75775717_1 | Non-Necessary | 1 minute | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). |
| _gcl_au | Non-Necessary | 3 months | Set by Google Tag Manager to analyse advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| _gid | Non-Necessary | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. |
| _uetsid | Non-Necessary | 1 day | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. |
| _uetvid | Non-Necessary | 1 year 24 days | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. |
| __stripe_mid | Necessary | 1 year | Installed by Stripe, this cookie is required to process payments. |
| __stripe_sid | Necessary | 30 minutes | Installed by Stripe, this cookie is required to process payments. |
| __zlcmid | Necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by our chat widget Zopim, to help identify a user's chat session between page loads. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
