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Cookies Policy

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by the websites you visit, providing a means for us to remember your preferences and improve your browsing experience.

What Cookies Are

A cookie is a piece of data sent from a website and stored on your computer or mobile device. It's not a virus, Trojan horse, or spyware. When you return to our site, the cookie helps us recall what we previously stored so that we can offer enhanced services tailored to your specific needs.

Why We Use Cookies

We employ cookies for several reasons:

  • To ensure secure login and session continuity
  • To remember your preferences (e.g., language settings)
  • For analytical purposes (see below)
  • For marketing or communication preference management

Essential, Session, Persistent, Functional, Analytics, Performance, Preference & Language Settings Cookies

Here's a brief explanation of each:

Essential Cookies

These are required for our website to function properly. They enable us to maintain your secure login and session continuity.

Session Cookies

Temporary cookies stored on your device during your browsing session, deleted when you close the browser. We use them to store preferences and data temporarily while you interact with our site.

Persistent Cookies

Longer-lasting cookies that remain stored until manually deleted or expired according to their set duration. These help us remember specific settings for future visits without requiring manual input each time.

Functional Cookies

These enable the website's features, including logging in and tracking your activities within a session. They can also provide data to make navigation easier by remembering specific settings (e.g., language or timezone preference).

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use these cookies for improving user experience through analytical tools like Google Tag Manager, which collects anonymous aggregated information about site behavior but does not track identifiable personal data.

Preference and Language Settings

Cookies enable you to choose your preferred language and set other browsing preferences without having to manually adjust each time. This enhances the overall ease of using our website according to individual needs.

Login/Session Continuity Cookies

These cookies facilitate secure login by storing authentication information securely, ensuring that once logged in, your access will remain uninterrupted unless chosen otherwise or there's an issue with your account details.

Device Recognition & Security-Related Cookies

We employ certain technologies like browser fingerprinting (without tracking your browsing history) to enhance security and prevent malicious activities on our site. These are not linked directly with identifiable personal information but rather used as part of comprehensive protection measures for all users.

Browser Storage Technologies

Cookies work in conjunction with other local storage methods offered by modern browsers, including Indexed DB, LocalStorage, SessionStorage, Cache, Service Workers (SW), and Web Workers (WW). Each plays a crucial role in preserving user settings or data locally while navigating our website.

Third-Party Integrations

Occasionally, we integrate third-party services that also use cookies to personalize your experience. These are transparently disclosed as part of the integration description on each relevant page of our site.

Marketing/Communication Preferences Cookies

When interacting with promotional content (e.g., banners), you may find an option to customize future interactions based on specific preferences, which will store accordingly via a cookie.

Cookie Consent Management

Your control over accepting or denying cookies is entirely your decision. If you reject all non-essential cookies, keep in mind that some of our website's functionality might be impacted (more details below).

Browser Cookie Controls

Each web browser has its unique methods for managing and deleting stored cookies:

  • Google Chrome: Cookies are accessible via chrome://settings/cookies
  • Mozilla Firefox: Use about:preferences#privacy to find cookie settings.
  • Microsoft Edge: Find privacy settings at edge://settings/contentCookies.

Clearing or Disabling Cookies

It is your right to delete stored cookies and deny future cookie acceptance, which may limit certain website functionalities (see below). For detailed instructions on managing cookies using specific browsers, refer to the link provided earlier for each browser's official documentation.

Site Functionality Impact When Cookies Are Disabled

While our site aims to remain accessible even with all non-essential cookies disabled or deleted, it is inevitable that some functions will not function as intended. This may include:

  • Inability to remember login details
  • Difficulty in persisting session continuity and certain features' functionality
  • Issues with customized settings (e.g., language preferences) being lost upon future visits

However, core features like navigation through menus and links should still be accessible.

Technical Diagnostics & Performance Optimization

To continuously improve our services without compromising user data protection or privacy:

  1. We track technical diagnostics, performance optimization metrics using aggregated anonymous information to understand how well we meet user needs.
  2. To further refine this effort, specific third-party services provide valuable insights about site interactions, again only based on fully anonymized and non-identifiable personal data.

Aggregated Analytics Information

These tools help us gather statistics that facilitate better decision-making without compromising individual users' identities:

  • Understanding of our visitor demographics (age, sex, etc.)
  • Insights into how visitors navigate our website
  • Useful information about average time spent on the site

User Experience Improvements

The insights gained from this process enable us to refine user experience by enhancing navigation and addressing identified areas for improvement.

We hope you now have a better understanding of what cookies are, why we use them, and how they contribute to your overall browsing experience with our website.