Cookie Policy
Last Updated: January 1, 2024
Introduction to Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to site owners. Cookies serve various purposes, from facilitating essential website functions to analyzing website performance and helping tailor the user experience.
Types of Cookies Used on Our Website
Our website uses several types of cookies, each with a specific role:
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Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
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Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect personal identification information and are used only to improve the performance of our website.
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Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to texts or other customizable parts of web pages.
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Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies collect information about your browsing habits and are used to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. They may be used by us and our third-party partners to serve ads on our website or on other organizations’ websites that you visit.
Managing or Deleting Cookies
If you wish to control, manage, or delete the cookies placed by our website, you can do so through your browser settings. The help function in your browser should provide you with the correct procedure to follow. You can also visit aboutcookies.org and select the guided tour, which provides step-by-step assistance for managing cookies.
Please note that if you choose to disable or delete necessary cookies, parts of our website may not function correctly.
Third-Party Cookies
Our website uses third-party services, such as Google Analytics, to collect standard Internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. This is to find out things such as the number of visitors to various parts of the site. The information collected by these third parties is anonymized and used solely for the purposes described above.
Consent and Control
By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy. You will have seen a pop-up banner cookie notification on your first visit to our website, and perhaps again upon subsequent visits, which explained that by continuing to access our site, you were giving us your consent to use cookies as described in this policy.
If the use of cookies is not something you want, you can change your browser settings, as described above. You can also withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at [email protected].
Updates to Our Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, law, or the operations of our website. The most current version of this Cookie Policy will always be available here, with the date of the latest update noted.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our use of cookies, or if you would like to opt-out of certain types of cookies, please contact us at:
This Cookie Policy is designed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ePrivacy Directive (also known as the Cookie Directive), and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). If you have any concerns about privacy or data protection, please contact us directly.