Cookies and IP Address Tracking
How We Use Cookies: When you visit our sites, we may place a small file known as a cookie on your device to improve your experience by making our website more responsive to your needs. We collect data through cookies to better understand our audience, which helps us tailor content and enhance your user experience. Our cookies are primarily designed to enhance site functionality and gather anonymized behavioral data, not to store sensitive personal details.
#1 Explaining the Cookies We Use
We use the following types of cookies on our website for the following purposes:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the core functionality and operation of our website such as page navigation and cannot be switched off in our systems. They also include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. If you disable these cookies via your browser settings certain parts of the website will not function for you. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Analytical/performance cookies and third party cookies. These cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide, improve the performance of our website and help us better understand our users experience and needs. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it (including what links are chosen to click and how much time is spent on which pages) and see if you get any error messages. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring any errors are fixed and that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use third party analytics service on our website, which provide third party web analytics services and user behaviour analytics services, to help us analyse user behaviour including how visitors use the website so as to optimise the user website experience and create a better overall experience. Further information about these partners can be found here and via the link set out below in relation the individual cookies we use on our website.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website, for example by remembering the cookies you have consented to. This enables us to personalise our content for you and to check that certain functionality is working on our website.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and also show you relevant adverts on other sites. We may also share this information with third party service providers for this purpose so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
#2 Maintaining Site Integrity and Safety
Third-Party Advertisements and Cookie Tracking: The advertisements you see on our website may be served by third parties who use their own cookies to monitor how many times you have seen an advertisement and to track your visits across different sites where their ads appear. This tracking, which is anonymous, aims to provide ads that are more relevant to your interests and to limit the frequency of the same ad. For instance, if you have recently searched for cars, you might see advertisements for car services on our site. We do not control these third-party cookies and cannot access the data they collect, but you can opt out of this type of tracking through online advertiser settings.
#3 Setting and Adjusting Cookie Preferences
You can change your cookie settings at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of the page in the “Manage your cookies” section.
#4 Miscellaneous Rules
General Inquiries
Should you have any general questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us for more information.