Cookie Policy
Last updated: July 15, 2020
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves 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.
How do we use cookies?
We use 4 group of cookies: Google Analytics cookies, Cookie Consent, First and Third Party cookies.
1. Google Analytics
The cookies used are: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz, collect, _ga, _gat, _gid. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Their expiration is 2 years, 30 minutes, session (when you close your browser), 6 months, session, 2 years, 1 day and 1 day respectively.
2. Cookie Consent
This cookie records that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies. It is used to stop the Cookie notification displaying each time a new session is opened. It expires after 1 year.
3. First party necessary cookies
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies: laravel_session, XSRF-TOKEN.
4. Third Party Cookies
Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube. To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over. But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.
Youtube
We embed videos from YouTube using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube's embedding videos information page. The cookies used are: yt-remote-cast-installed, yt-remote-connected-devices, yt-remote-device-id, yt-remote-fast-check-period, yt-remote-session-app, yt-remote-session-name, YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, GPS.
DoubleClick
IDE: Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
test_cookie: Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.
Our websites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different from ours. Visitors should consult these other third party sites' privacy notices, since these sites are not covered by our privacy policy and may follow different procedures.
How to control cookies?
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. 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.