What are cookies and why we use them

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies:These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of the e-billing services.
• Analytical/performance cookies:They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies:These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting 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 the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

First-party cookies

This website will set some cookies that are essential for the website to operate correctly. These cookies, none of which capture personally identifiable information, are as follows:

• cookie-notice - This cookie saves if the user has closed the cookie notice.

Third-party cookies

Our websites set several types of third-party cookie, and we do not control the operation of any of them. The third-party cookies that may be set include:

• Google Analytics- we use Google Analytics to collect data about website usage. This data does not include personally identifiable information. You can view Google’s privacy policy here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/.