Information about our use of 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. When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to choose whether to accept optional cookies. Necessary cookies are always active because they are essential for the operation and security of the website. We will only use analytics, functionality and marketing cookies where you have provided your consent. You can change your preferences at any time using our cookie preference centre. For detailed information about the cookies we use, including their purpose and retention period, please refer to the table below.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are essential for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. Because these cookies are necessary for the website to function, they cannot be switched off through our cookie settings tool. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.
- Analytics cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Marketing (targeting or advertising) cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie name |
| Purpose | Default expiration time |
| Analytics cookies | _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
2 years |
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| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | End of browser session |
| _gid |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 24 hours | |
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| _ga_CQGD7M1T31 | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 14 months |
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| _dc_gtm_UA-120857404 | This period shows the length of the period at which a service can store and/or read certain data from your computer by using a cookie, pixel, an API, cookieless tracking, or other resources. | 1 minute |
| Necessary Cookies | CookieControl | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current website. | 1 year |
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| ASP.NET SessionId | Preserves the visitor's sessions state across page requests. | End of browser session |
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| Disclaimer-cookie | Set when the user accepts the disclaimer on the page. | 1 year |
| Marketing (targeting or advertising) cookies | IDE | Set by Google's DoubleClick advertising platform. Used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, limit the number of times an advert is shown and help deliver more relevant advertising to users. | 1 year |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can manage your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie settings tool available on our website. You can also configure your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Please note that if you block necessary cookies, some parts of the website may not function correctly.
Except for necessary cookies, all cookies will expire when the browser session expires.