Cookie Policy

Last update: 19/12/2023

Why we use cookies?

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like.

What types of cookies do we use?

We use the following types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.
Analvtics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

What is the purpose of the cookies that we use?

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Type	Name	Purpose
Strictly necessary cookies	JSESSIONID	Used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server in Java™ 2 Platform Enterprise Edition web applications. It is a necessary cookie that expires at the end of a session.
Performance and functionality cookies	AWSALB	These cookies enable us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth a s possible. Also-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual.
	AWSALBCORS	For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB).
	XSRF-TOKEN	This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
Analvtics and customization cookies	_ga_#	Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions.
	_ga	Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user
	NID	Set by Google to set a unique user ID to remember user preferences. Persistent cookie that stays for 182 days
Advertising cookies	_gcl_au	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
	_fbp	Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising.
	fr	Used by Facebook to collect a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising.

How can I control cookies on my browser?

As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers: