All cookies used by us fall into one of the following main categories:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to navigate our websites. They are used to deliver content to you as a user and to provide the products and services you have requested.

They are vital for downloading or transmitting information to your device, allowing you to navigate our websites, use their features, and return to previously visited pages.

Some of these cookies do indeed collect your personal data in order to function. They may collect the following types of personal data:

• IP address;

• location data;

• identification as an authenticated user on our websites.

These cookies do not retain your preferences or username after your current visit ends. They are deleted once you close your browser (end of session).

Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our websites, allowing us to remember your choices and help us deliver optimised features. They also improve the functionality of our websites by storing your preferences.

Functionality cookies record information about your choices (such as language preferences) and enable us to provide customised features.

Functionality cookies expire after a maximum of 2 years. You may delete them from your browser history at any time before their expiration.

Performance Cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about how the website is used. Such cookies provide aggregate statistical data about visitors to our websites. This data is used internally to help us test and optimise the performance of our websites in order to deliver a better user experience.

In some cases, certain performance cookies are managed by third parties such as Google Analytics. These third parties do not have the ability to use these cookies for any purpose other than those described above and cannot identify you using these cookies.

Performance cookies have varying lifespans. Some are deleted when the browser is closed, while others may persist indefinitely. These cookies can be deleted at any time through your browser settings.