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:

CookieTypeDurationDescription
ANONCHKNon-Necessary10 minutesThe 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.
AWSALBCORSNecessary7 daysThis cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing.
CLIDNon-Necessary1 yearUsed by Microsoft Clarity to identify the first time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisementsNecessary1 yearThis cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Advertisements".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analyticsNecessary1 yearThis cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functionalNecessary1 yearThis cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessaryNecessary1 yearThis cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-othersNecessary1 yearThis cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other".
CookieLawInfoConsentNecessary1 yearThis cookie is set by the cookie consent popup to record the default button state of each category.
IDENon-Necessary1 year 24 daysGoogle DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the visitor uses the website to present them with relevant ads.
iutkNon-Necessary5 months 27 daysThis cookie is used by Issuu analytics system to gather information regarding visitor activity on Issuu products.
mcNon-Necessary1 year 1 monthQuantserve sets the mc cookie to anonymously track user behaviour on this website.
MUIDNon-Necessary1 year 24 daysBing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations.
SMNon-NecessarysessionSet by Microsoft to synchronise the MUID cookie across Microsoft domains.
SRM_BNon-Necessary1 year 24 daysUsed by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for website visitors.
test_cookieNon-Necessary15 minutesSet by doubleclick.net and used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.
viewed_cookie_policyNecessary1 yearThe 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.
_clckNon-Necessary1 yearThis 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.
_clskNon-Necessary1 dayThis cookie is set by Microsoft Clarity to connect multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording.
_ga*Non-Necessary2 yearsThis 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.
_gatNon-Necessary1 minuteThis 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_1Non-Necessary1 minuteThis cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate).
_gcl_auNon-Necessary3 monthsSet by Google Tag Manager to analyse advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
_gidNon-Necessary1 dayThis 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.
_uetsidNon-Necessary1 dayBing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website.
_uetvidNon-Necessary1 year 24 daysBing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website.
__stripe_midNecessary1 yearInstalled by Stripe, this cookie is required to process payments.
__stripe_sidNecessary30 minutesInstalled by Stripe, this cookie is required to process payments.
__zlcmidNecessary1 yearThis 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.