What are cookies?
“Cookies” are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.
They allow the website to recognise your device and remember if you’ve been to the website before.
Cookies are very common web technology – most websites use cookies and have done for years. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently, as well as providing information to the owners of websites.
Cookies are used to measure which parts of the website people visit and to customise your experience. Cookies also provide information that helps us monitor and improve the website’s performance.
You can read more about the different types of cookies that we use on the cookies page.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your computer and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Our cookies
We use cookies to enhance the performance of our website and personalise your online experience.
Cookies help us to collect information on how people use our website and which pages they visit. They enable us to monitor the number of visitors and to analyse website usage patterns and trends.
Third party cookies may come from partners that provide functional web tools for our site, other websites where we advertise and from social networks.
We collect this information anonymously, so it doesn’t identify anyone as an individual and no personal information is stored in our cookies. We always use cookie data in a responsible way.
Our aim is to continually improve your online experience with our website. Cookies help to make our website work better and more efficiently. However, if you want to find out more on how to disable cookies and any other information about them, you can do so here: www.allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
We have divided our cookies into categories, and you are able to customise which cookies you allow onto your device, by category. You can also view a full list of our cookies and third-party cookies that are used on this website in the table below.
Necessary
These are the cookies that are essential for our website to operate effectively. They include cookies that allow you to access restricted areas of our website, or remember your cookie preferences. Necessary cookies can only be disabled by changing your internet browser settings, although this may mean our website will not display or function properly.
Personalisation
We use personalisation cookies to understand how you use our website across all your devices, by matching your devices to you. This will include us keeping track of your browsing history and activity to help us identify you. This will allow us to provide you with targeted and personalised marketing on our website, by email (if you have consented to email marketing) and on other websites through other marketing channels.
Marketing
Marketing cookies are third-party cookies, pixels, web beacons and other storage technologies (including from Facebook) which are used to provide you with advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests for measurement purposes. This may result in you seeing these advertisements on our website and on other websites you visit. If you disable our marketing cookies, you will still see advertisements when you view our website, or other websites, but these will not be personalised to you.
Analytics
These cookies allow us to recognise and keep track of and analyse the number and location of visitors to our website and your browsing activity on it. This allows us to improve the functionality and design of our website, for example by ensuring you can easily find the content you are interested in. As these cookies collect IP addresses, we can obtain a truer picture of our traffic by excluding certain types of visitors from our measurements using these addresses.
Your consent
Cookies and associated personal information used for essential purposes.
In accordance with data protection laws, we do not request your consent to use these cookies as they are necessary to ensure this website works properly.
Cookies and associated personal information used for non-essential purposes.
We will only store or read cookies on your device for non-essential cookies and process associated personal information (or allow our third party services providers and partners to do so) if you have given, and not withdrawn, your consent. We request this using the cookie tool that appears when you visit any page of this website.
How to provide your consent for non-essential cookies and associated personal information.
When you visit this website for the first time, you will be prompted with a request to provide your consent for non-essential cookies and the personal information we receive as a result of their use. You can consent to all non-essential cookies or choose to consent to cookies by their individual categories of purposes of use by selecting, in each case, by selecting the appropriate option.
If you do not provide your consent for these cookies, we will neither use them nor process any personal information in connection with them. Consequently, your provision of any personal information associated with the cookie is voluntary and you may withdraw your consent at any time. Any use of the cookie or associated personal information before you withdraw your consent will be valid and lawful. Please see our Privacy Statement for further information regarding your data protection rights.
Withdrawing your consent to cookies
You may withdraw consent that you have previously provided for cookies in one of two ways depending on the type of cookie:
Adjusting the settings in your web browser. Most web browsers are set by default to accept all cookies. However, you may have the option to configure your web browser settings in such a way that the cookie information is displayed before storage, or to categorically reject them. You can find details on the various available settings for cookies and related changes for the most common web browsers by clicking on the relevant link below:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Microsoft Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=cs_CZ&viewlocale=en_US
Please note that any change to your web browser settings will only apply to the particular web browser for which you have adjusted your settings. If you use more than one web browser on a device, you must change the settings separately for each browser and, depending on the browser, for each device. Additional information regarding cookies may be available within the “help” feature of the browser or operating system or the operating manual for your device.
Using tools provided by the following industry bodies for opting-out of third party cookies for targeted advertising:
Network Advertising Initiative
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance
How long do our cookies stay on your device?
The length of time that our cookies will stay on your device varies from cookie-to-cookie. Some are known as ‘session cookies’ which will only stay on your device whilst you are viewing our website. Other cookies, known as ‘persistent cookies’ will stay on your device for a longer period. Some ‘persistent cookies’ will expire after a certain length of time, and others will stay on your device until they are deleted.
