Cookies

Cookie Type: Analytics – Statcounter

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Channels:
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Purpose and functionality relying on the cookie:
StatCounter is a web analytics service. These stats help the website owners to understand how people are interacting with their websites and to improve the design and functionality of their sites so that they can offer a better online experience to their visitors and customers. If you visit a website which uses the StatCounter service, a StatCounter analytics cookie (called “is_unique”) may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site. No personal information is stored in the cookie.

What are cookies?

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our Website. For example, like many websites, we use “cookies” to obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses our Website and when you login, such as: your name and your email address. Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive via your Web browser. They allow us to provide you with a more convenient and personalised experience by recording information about your preferences.

A web browser is usually set to accept cookies automatically but can be changed to decline them. The Help section of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable cookies altogether. In most cases, a visitor may refuse a cookie and still fully navigate our Website.

We do not store passwords or any other information about a visitor in a cookie that could identify them, their location, their preferences or their financial activity.

We use aggregated customer information to help us understand how our website is performing commercially and what we can do to improve performance. We do not provide this information to other companies, such as third party advertisers.

If you do not want to receive cookies from us, please follow the procedures below.

How to Find and Control Your Cookies

If you’re using Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0:

  1. Choose Tools, then:
  2. Internet Options
  3. Click the Privacy tab
  4. Click on the ‘Advanced’ button
  5. Check the ‘Override automatic cookie handing’ box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you’re using Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Choose Tools, then:
  2. Options…
  3. Privacy
  4. Cookies
  5. Set your options as required

If you’re using Opera 8+:

  1. Choose Tools, then
  2. Preferences
  3. Advanced
  4. Select Cookies
  5. Select your settings using the available options

If you’re using Safari:

  1. Choose Safari, then
  2. Preferences
  3. Security
  4. Select options by Accept Cookies as required.

How do you know which of the sites you’ve visited use cookies?

If you’re using Internet Explorer:

  1. Choose Tools, then
  2. Internet Options
  3. Click the General tab
  4. Click Settings
  5. View Files

If you’re using Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Choose Tools, then
  2. Options…
  3. Privacy
  4. Cookies
  5. Click the Show Cookies button.

If you’re using Opera 8+:

  1. Choose Tools, then
  2. Advanced
  3. Click Cookies.

If you’re using Safari:

  1. Choose Safari, then
  2. Preferences
  3. Security
  4. Click Show Cookies button.

How to see your cookie code

  1. Just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

NOTES:

Learn more about cookies and how to manage them here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/index.html