Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

As common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are small files stored on your device to improve your experience. This page describes the information we collect, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We also explain how you can prevent these cookies being stored; however, this may interfere with certain features of the site.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies for a number of reasons, which will be detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options to disable cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies enabled if you are unsure whether you need them or if they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling cookies

You can disable the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings [see your browser's help on how to do this]. Please be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this site just like other sites you visit. Disabling cookies generally disables certain functions and features of the site. We therefore recommend that you do not disable cookies.

The cookies we set

This site offers newsletter or e-mail subscription services and cookies may be used to remind you that you are already registered and to show you some notifications, which may be valid only for registered or unregistered users.

This site offers e-commerce or payment methods. Therefore, some cookies are necessary to ensure that your order is remembered, between pages, so that we can process it correctly.

From time to time, we offer surveys to users to provide useful tools or to understand our user base more accurately. These options may use cookies to remember who is already participating in a survey or provide accurate results after changing pages.

When sending data via a form, such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies can be programmed to remember the user's details for future correspondence.

To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide functionality to set your preferences for how this site works when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be evoked whenever you interact with a page affected by your favourites.

Third party cookies

In special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The next section details the third-party cookies that you may encounter via this website.

This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the web's most widespread and trusted analytics solutions, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies can probe things like how much time you spend on the site and the pages you visit, so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please visit the official page.

Third party analytics are useful for probing and measuring the usage of this site so that we can continue to provide engaging content to users. These cookies may determine how long a user spends on our site or which pages they visit, to help us improve the site.

From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site is delivered.

While we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience on the site, confirming that we understand which optimisations our users appreciate most.

In some cases, we may provide personalised content based on what you directly or indirectly show us through a social media connection. These types of cookies allow us to only provide content that we consider to be of interest to you.

Several of our partners use our cookies and account control to simply allow us to see if our users access the site via one of our partner sites so that we can properly accredit them and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to offer users any kind of bonus.

We also use social media buttons/plugins (extension modules) in places that allow you to connect with your social media profiles in various ways. We use social networks such as Facebook and Instagram, which may set cookies through our website that can be used to update your profile, or contribute to key data required for other functions described in their respective privacy policies.

More information

For more information about cookies and their use, we suggest you consult the All About Cookies website (only available in English, French, Spanish and German).

You can also contact us using one of our preferred contact methods: