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Who: website operators and users who interact with digital services.
What: this page explains how small data files known as cookies are used to secure sites, enhance personalization, integrate social media, and inform analytics.
Where: on our website; detailed controls and a full inventory of cookies appear in the Cookie Policy section of the Privacy Policy.
Why: cookies help maintain a secure environment and deliver a smoother, more relevant user experience, while enabling backend measurement that supports service improvements.
From the user’s perspective, the page outlines what each purpose means and points to options for managing preferences. The following section examines how cookies contribute to site safety and reliability.
Security-focused cookies help keep sites dependable for users and operators. They support session management, detect anomalous activity, and enable protections that restrict unauthorized access.
For example, a cookie can record that a user completed a multi-step verification. The site then avoids repeated prompts for the same credentials during a short period. This reduces friction while preserving security controls.
Security cookies also assist automated safeguards such as rate limiting and token validation. These mechanisms act in real time to block suspicious requests and to flag sessions that require further verification. From a user perspective, these processes operate silently and maintain continuity in navigation.
The technical design balances availability and protection. Session lifetime, scope, and encryption determine how long a cookie grants access and what it can authorize. Operators should apply least-privilege principles and limit cookie persistence to the minimum necessary.
For operational details and examples of security cookies, consult the security subsection of our Cookie Policy within the Privacy Policy. The section explains implementation choices and the trade-offs between convenience and risk mitigation, and it outlines user controls for managing cookie settings.
Preference cookies make the site more convenient and more relevant to each visitor. By storing simple settings and short-lived state data, a cookie can remember language choice, display options, or recently visited pages. That reduces repeated configuration and speeds navigation. These features rely on preference cookies, which do not identify a user but preserve selections across visits. From the user’s point of view, this personalization improves efficiency and continuity.
Personalization and remembered preferences
From the user’s point of view, personalization improves efficiency and continuity. Remembered settings reduce friction when returning to a site.
Some interactive elements rely on third-party services to work. Examples include social sharing buttons, embedded feeds and comment widgets. These features commonly load external scripts that can set and read cookies.
Social plugins may enable seamless sharing and richer interaction across platforms. They can, however, allow the service provider to link activity on the site with a user profile on their network. That linkage depends on information exchanged between the browser and the third party when the feature is active.
Analytics tools collect aggregate data about site use. They measure pageviews, session length and event interactions to help site owners improve design and content. According to the literature on web measurement, anonymized metrics can guide better user journeys without identifying individuals.
Both social and analytics functions often use performance or analytics cookies to record non-essential data. These cookies are distinct from strictly required technical cookies. Disabling them through the browser or the Cookie Policy tools generally preserves core functionality but reduces insights and some convenience features.
Site operators should explain what each category does and what users gain or forfeit by opting out. Clear descriptions help visitors weigh privacy against convenience and make informed choices consistent with applicable regulations.
Clear descriptions help visitors weigh privacy against convenience and make informed choices consistent with applicable regulations. From the user’s perspective, transparency about cookie functions reduces uncertainty and supports better control over personal data.
The site may deploy social media cookies to enable sharing features and to display embedded content from external platforms. These cookies facilitate interactions that connect site pages with public social feeds and social widgets. Separately, the site uses analytics cookies to collect aggregated usage metrics. These metrics include pageviews, navigation paths, and performance indicators that guide improvements to structure and content without identifying individual users.
Users can manage cookie preferences through the site’s consent tool or browser settings. The site provides clear options to accept, reject, or adjust categories of cookies, including the ability to disable social media and analytics cookies while retaining essential functionality. Practical instructions for changing browser-level cookie settings are available in the help section of most browsers.
The Cookie Policy within the Privacy Policy lists the specific third-party partners and the types of data those partners may collect. The policy also explains retention periods and the legal bases for processing. From a user standpoint, reviewing those entries clarifies which services are active and what control mechanisms are available.
Technical and usability teams use the aggregated analytics data to prioritise site changes. This evidence-based approach aims to balance performance with respect for user privacy. Users concerned about tracking can opt out of non-essential cookies without losing access to core services.
Users concerned about tracking can opt out of non-essential cookies without losing access to core services. The Cookie Policy within our Privacy Policy gives step-by-step controls and explains trade-offs between personalization and minimal functionality.
The policy lists cookie categories, their purposes and the retention periods for each. It also provides practical instructions for disabling or deleting cookies in major browsers and links to third-party tools for managing cross-site tracking. For users who prefer precise control, the page describes how to adjust settings at site level and at browser level. The information supports informed choices consistent with prevailing data-protection standards and common industry practice.
From a user perspective, disabling non-essential cookies reduces targeted personalization but typically does not prevent basic site navigation or access to public content. For technical audiences, the policy includes details on the types of identifiers used and how they relate to session management, authentication and analytics. Consult the Cookie Policy for the authoritative list of cookies in use and the options available to tailor your preferences.