We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a “cookie” file which is stored on your computer. Cookies contain information which help us to deliver a better and more personalised service to you, and to understand and improve our website and the services we offer users.
NB: none of the cookies we may set allow us to identify you individually.
Cookies are small data files of letters and numbers that we store on your web browser or to the hard drive of your computer if you agree and they enable us to:
Remember information about your preferences, and so customise what we show you according to your individual interests;
Speed up your searches;
Recognize you when you return to our website.
We may use the following types 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 e-billing services.
Analytical or performance cookies. These 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 are finding 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.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
If you are concerned about your privacy on this or any site, most modern web browsers allow you to open and view websites in “incognito” mode. In “incognito” mode, cookies are still set, but they are automatically cleared as soon as you close your browser.
For further information regarding cookies and to see what cookies have been set, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
You can find more information about the individual cookies we may use in the table below:
Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
gclau | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months | Advertisement |
_ttp | TikTok set this cookie to track and improve the performance of advertising campaigns, as well as to personalise the user experience. | 3 months | Advertisement |
bcookie | LinkedIn sets this cookie to track the use of embedded services. | 1 year | Advertisement |
li_gc | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | 6 months | Necessary |
lidc | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | 1 day | Functional |
CLID | Microsoft Clarity set this cookie to store information about how visitors interact with the website. The cookie helps to provide an analysis report. The data collection includes the number of visitors, where they visit the website, and the pages visited. | 1 year | Analytics |
ttenable_cookie | Tiktok set this cookie to collect data about behaviour and activities on the website and to measure the effectiveness of the advertising. | 3 months | Advertisement |
_ttp | TikTok set this cookie to track and improve the performance of advertising campaigns, as well as to personalise the user experience. | 3 months | Advertisement |
ttcsid_CKP3CERC77U0CKFVVDPG | 3 months | Other | |
ttcsid | 3 months | Other | |
_fbp | Facebook sets this cookie to store and track interactions. | 3 months | Advertisement |
SM | Microsoft Clarity cookie set this cookie for synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. | session | Analytics |
MUID | Microsoft Bing sets this cookie to identify unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year 24 days | Advertisement |
MUID | Microsoft Bing sets this cookie to identify unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year 24 days | Advertisement |
MR | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. | 7 days | Analytics |
SRM_B | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. | 1 year 24 days | Performance |
MR | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. | 7 days | Analytics |
ANONCHK | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user's session ID and also verify the clicks from ads on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalization as well. | 10 minutes | Advertisement |
_clck | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to retain the browser's Clarity User ID and settings exclusive to that website. This guarantees that actions taken during subsequent visits to the same website will be linked to the same user ID. | 1 year | Analytics |
_clsk | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store and consolidate a user's pageviews into a single session recording. | 1 day | Analytics |
lastExternalReferrer | session | Other | |
gclls | session | Other | |
lastExternalReferrerTime | session | Other | |
topicsLastReferenceTime | session | Other | |
tt_sessionId | session | Other | |
tt_pixel_session_index | session | Other | |
tt_appInfo | session | Other | |
_cltk | session | Other | |
AWSELBCORS | This cookie is used by Elastic Load Balancing from Amazon Web Services to effectively balance load on the servers. | 6 minutes | Performance |
__lc_cid | This is an essential cookie for the website live chat box to function properly. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Functional |
__lc_cst | This cookie is used for the website live chat box to function properly. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Functional |
__oauth_redirect_detector | This cookie is used to recognize the visitors using live chat at different times inorder to optimize the chat-box functionality. | 1 minute | Functional |
@@lc_auth_token:cfe9d087-70d6-46d6-a640-1fd63747b56f:537 | session | Other | |
cfe9d087-70d6-46d6-a640-1fd63747b56f:537:state | session | Other | |
livechathas_visited | session | Other | |
sessionid | 14 days | Other | |
AWSELB | Associated with Amazon Web Services and created by Elastic Load Balancing, AWSELB cookie is used to manage sticky sessions across production servers. | session | Necessary |
Please note that the following third parties may use cookies over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies, performance cookies or targeting cookies:
Google Analytics: https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
LinkedIn:
Instagram: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/
Please read our Privacy Policy for further details on the type of information we gather and how we use it.
For further information regarding cookies and to see what cookies have been set