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Cookie & Privacy Policy

Here we give you a general overview of some of the ways this website processes your personal data including the use of cookies and social media. You can read more about how we use your personal data in our Privacy Policy.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are short text files stored on a user’s device (such as a computer, tablet or phone) by a website. Cookies are used for the technical functioning of a website or for gathering statistics.

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Cookies are also typically used to provide a more personalised experience for a user for example, when an online service remembers your user profile without you having to login.

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When you visit our website, we may collect some data on your browsing experience such as your IP address, the website page you visited, when you visited and the website page you were redirected from.

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This information is used to gather aggregated and anonymous statistics with a view to improving our services and to enhance your user experience.

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When you visit this website, we will keep the browser history of your visit for a maximum of 13 months. This information will then be deleted.

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Should you wish to opt your data out of our anonymised, aggregated statistics, you clean the cookies for this website from your browser. Read our cookies information for more information about the types of cookies this website uses.

Do we use cookies?

We use cookies on our website for its technical functioning and for gathering statistics. A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on the visitor’s computer or mobile device. The table on this page lists the cookies that this website uses and describes their purpose.

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You will also find some more detail here about cookies relating to our social media channels and Google Analytics, the service we use for our statistics.

Social media cookies

We use social media platforms. Our presence in the Twitter, Google, YouTube and LinkedIn communities strengthens our online presence and visibility.

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  • The website does not set cookies with the display of links to our social media channels when you are browsing our website;

  • You can watch videos, which we upload (embed) to our YouTube page. You can also follow links from our website to social media platforms;

  • In order to watch a video on our website, a message will alert you that you need to accept YouTube cookies to do so. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube until you consent to YouTube cookies;

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

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In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA.

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On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

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You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, we points out that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Opting out

By default, the browsing experience of website visitors is tracked by Google Analytics in order to produce anonymised statistics.

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Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so called IP-masking).

Do not track preferences

Do not track is a function that allows visitors to opt out from being tracked by websites for any purpose including the use of analytics services, advertising networks and social platforms. Do not track options are available in a number of browsers including:

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If you enable do not track in your web browser, Google Analytics will respect your choice.
You will not be tracked. This is in addition to you opting out of the aggregation and analysis of data for our website statistics.
If you have disabled all cookies from your browser, we will still collect some general data about your browsing (e.g. a record of a visitor to our website) but they will be less accurate and your visit will not be tracked.

More information:

You can read more about how we use your personal data in our Terms & Conditions

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