Cookies Policy

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, provide site functionality, and improve our services. This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, why we use them, and how you can manage or disable them.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer, phone, tablet) by web browsers when you visit a website. They contain information that helps the site remember your actions, preferences, and login details. Most websites use cookies to provide smoother navigation and enhance overall user experience.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

We employ cookies for several reasons:

• Site Navigation: To improve user experience, we store cookies related to navigating our platform, including features like language settings and cookie consent.
• Login Persistence: Some cookies help in maintaining a continuous login session across your device, ensuring you don't need to log in each time you visit us.
• Personalization: Cookies can be used for personalizing your experience based on past behavior or preferences. We use these to show relevant content that may interest you.

Types of Cookies

Essential Cookies

These are critical cookies required for the basic functioning of our site, ensuring security and login sessions:

1. Authentication Cookies: Used by web browsers for secure logins.
2. Session ID Cookies: Maintain a continuous session between your actions on our platform.
3. Security Tokens: Ensure secure data exchange between server and client.

Non-Essential Cookies

• Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that last until you close the browser or end the current session, like those for keeping track of your preferences during an individual visit. We use them to improve site functionality in real-time.

• Persistent Cookies: Stored on your device longer than a single browsing session, sometimes persisting after closing the app.

Performance and Functional Cookies

We employ performance and functional cookies:

1. Analytics and Performance Cookies: To monitor how you interact with our platform for improvement purposes and optimizing experience based on user data.
2. Preference Cookies: Manage your preferences like language settings or preferred content, allowing us to provide more tailored interactions.

Handling Cookies

Browser Settings

• Most browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) give you control over cookies through their browser settings menu:You can set these to accept all cookies, only block third-party cookies from being stored in your device by following the steps below for each respective browser:

1. Chrome: On Windows/Linux/macOS: Go to chrome://settings/, scroll down and click on "Advanced", then navigate to "Content settings" under privacy & security section.
2. Firefox: On Windows/Linux/macOS: Click on menu button (three horizontal stripes) -> Options or Preferences (depending on operating system), find Privacy section in the top of options dialog window, then check what types of tracking you want to block in Firefox’s preferences for advanced settings:Navigate to Content tab and scroll down.
3. Safari On macOS: Go to Preferences by clicking Safari menu item and choose "Privacy". Toggle off "Block cookies."

Dealing with Cookies

• Clearing or Disabling: You can delete existing cookies through your browser settings, but keep in mind some site functionality may not work properly after removing these essential files. Please be aware that disabling all cookies might limit the platform's ability to provide the best experience for you.
  • For most browsers: Follow steps mentioned above.

Site Functionality and Cookies

Impact of Cookie Disabling: If you choose to disable or block cookies, certain features on our site may not work correctly due to their dependency on these files:

1. Logins and Session Management: Without essential cookies for authentication and session handling, you may experience difficulties logging in securely.
2. Personalization and Recommendations: Blocking functional cookies could mean that content tailored according to your preferences won't be displayed.

Browser Storage Technologies

In addition to traditional cookie management, browsers support new types of storage like LocalStorage or SessionStorage, which provide similar functionality but are managed differently by browsers:

• These offer the same benefits as essential cookies (e.g., maintaining state over multiple HTTP requests without storing them on your device), plus you can manipulate their contents via JavaScript.They serve a variety purposes from user preferences to platform authentication. However, keep in mind they don't have default restrictions like those placed around traditional HTTP-based cookies.

Third-Party Integrations

Some integrations may also rely upon other types of tracking technologies besides cookies:

1. Social Media Sharing: Many social media platforms employ web beacons (small graphic images that can track who is visiting a particular website) to enable users to share content from our site on their own profiles.

2. Retargeting and Targeted Advertising: We use services such as Google Analytics for retargeting ads based on user behavior observed while browsing other websites or platforms, using data available when you interact with our site.

Marketing Preferences

We have built functionality to help manage your marketing preferences directly through the platform:

1. Opt-out Preference Mechanisms: Users can choose whether they want their personal information used for promotional purposes.

2. Data and Cookie Consent Management Tools: We include direct consent mechanism tools enabling users at every stage of interaction to accept or decline personalized marketing material based on our collection activities described below.

Technical Diagnostics and Performance Optimisation

For an improved user experience, we use aggregated analytics data generated by cookies:

1. Performance Monitoring: Cookies allow us monitor performance issues across multiple device types (like tracking speed loading times).
2. Data Collection: For better understanding of your behavior on the site, making enhancements in usability and overall design.

Security-Related Cookies

We may employ additional security-related measures beyond traditional cookies for protection purposes:

1. Secure Authentication: Some sites utilize external libraries designed to prevent attacks against password systems.
2. IP Address Blocking: Tools exist that automatically block user's IP address, protecting them from targeted threats posed by malicious third parties attempting intrusion on system assets such as servers storing customer data.