Cookie Policy

Last updated: January 25, 2022

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your computer by your web browser. The file is added once you agree to store cookies on your computer or device, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow sites to respond to you as an individual. The Website can also tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

What types of cookies do we use and how do we use them?

Cookies do a lot of different tasks on our Website, for example they:

  • Analyze our web traffic using an analytics package;
  • Identify if you are signed in to the Website;
  • Test content on the Website;
  • Store information about your preferences;
  • Recognize when you return to the Website.

You can block these cookies and similar technologies by changing your browser setting. However, in relation to those that are essential for the operation or improve the functionality of the Website, this may impact your use of the Website.

Type of cookie

What it does

Cookies necessary for essential Website purposes

These cookies are essential to provide you with the Website and any services available through this Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.

Targeting

Targeting cookies are used to identify visitors between different websites, eg. content partners, banner networks. Those cookies may be used by companies to build a profile of visitor interests or show relevant ads on other websites

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make on the Website and to provide enhanced and more personalized features, such as customizing a certain webpage, remembering if we have asked you to participate in a promotion

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies, which are sometimes called analytics cookies, collect information about your use of this Site and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, performance cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on the Site, allow us to see the overall patterns of usage on the Site, help us record any difficulties you have with the Site and show us whether our advertising is effective or not.

We use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how users engage with the Website. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here and about how Google protects your data here. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google

Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

These cookies allow us to:

  • Better understand our Website visitors so that we can improve how we present our content;
  • Collect information about Website visitors such as where they are located and what browsers they are using;
  • Determine the number of unique users of the Website;
  • Improve the Website by measuring any errors that occur; and

Social Cookies Media

On some pages of our Website, third parties that provide applications through our Website will set their own cookies in order to track the success of their applications or customize applications for you. Because of how cookies work, we cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by us.

These cookies are used when you share an article using a social media sharing button on our Website (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube) as the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this. If you are logged in to your account with the third party, the third party will be able to link information about you with your actions via cookies.

You can manage browser cookies through your browser settings. The 'Help' feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, how to block cookies, and when cookies will expire. If you block all cookies on your browser, neither we nor third parties will transfer cookies to your browser. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some features and services may not work.