Cookie Policy
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1. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We use a limited number of cookies to ensure the functionality of our site and to improve user experience. Our use is categorized as follows:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services like the cookie consent banner cannot be provided.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your cookie consent preference) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- Performance/Analytical Cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. For instance, they might track which pages visitors go to most often. We use this data to improve our website and ensure content is accessible. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
3. Cookie Table
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookieConsent | Functionality | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 year |
| _ga, _gid, _gat | Performance/Analytical | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and throttle request rate. This data is aggregated and anonymous. Helps us understand site traffic and user engagement. | Varies (from 1 minute to 2 years) |
4. How to Manage Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
For more details, see aboutcookies.org. You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by visiting http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
5. Third-Party Cookies
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. This information is anonymous and cannot be used to identify you.
Our embedded Google Map on the contact page may also set cookies. These are controlled by Google and we do not have control over them.
6. Policy Updates
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.