What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners.
Think of cookies as a website's memory. They allow websites to remember your actions and preferences (such as login status, language choice, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies are not programs and cannot contain viruses or malicious code. They are simple text files that can only be read by the website that created them or the browser you use to access the website.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several important purposes to enhance your experience on our website:
- Essential website functionality: Cookies enable core features such as maintaining your login session, remembering your preferences, and ensuring the website functions correctly.
- Security: We use cookies to help protect against fraudulent activity and to detect and prevent security threats.
- Website performance: Cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, which pages are most popular, and where users may encounter issues. This information helps us improve the website's performance and user experience.
- User preferences: Cookies allow us to remember your settings and preferences (such as language, region, or display options) so you don't have to reconfigure them each time you visit.
- Analytics and insights: We use cookies to collect anonymous usage statistics and analytics data that help us understand how our website is used and how we can improve it.
We only use cookies for the purposes described above and in accordance with this Cookie Policy. We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information without your consent.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies:
Required for security, basic navigation, and core site functions.
Analytics Cookies:
Help us understand visitor behaviour and improve site performance.
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings.
Disabling cookies may affect site functionality.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website, deliver advertisements, and so on. Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting.
These cookies may be used by third-party services such as:
- Analytics services: To help us understand how visitors use our website (e.g., Google Analytics)
- Social media platforms: To enable social sharing features and content integration
- Advertising networks: To deliver relevant advertisements and measure campaign effectiveness
These third parties may use cookies to collect information about your online activities across different websites. We do not control these third-party cookies, and they are subject to the respective third parties' privacy policies.
Managing Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in your browser settings. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
How to manage cookies:
- Block all cookies: You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you block all cookies, some features of our website may not function properly.
- Delete cookies: You can delete cookies that are already on your device through your browser settings. This will remove cookies that have been set in the past.
- Cookie preferences: Many browsers allow you to manage cookie preferences for individual websites or to receive notifications when cookies are being set.
Browser-specific instructions:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
- Firefox: Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies and website data
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data
Please note that if you disable cookies, some features of our website may not work as expected. Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are necessary for the website to function properly.
For more information about how to manage cookies in your specific browser, please visit your browser's help documentation or visit www.allaboutcookies.org.