INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our sites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our sites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our sites.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
There may also be instances where third-party cookies will apply when you use some features on our sites.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our sites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our sites, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our sites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our sites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie |
Description |
Duration |
Type |
has_js |
This cookie is used to indicate whether the user's browser has enabled JavaScript. |
|
Necessary |
_ga |
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
2 years |
Analytics |
_gid |
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. |
1 day |
Analytics |
_gat |
This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
1 minute |
Performance |
By using our website, you agree that cookies may be placed on your computer or internet-enabled device. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our sites.