Cookie Policy

United States Cookie Policy

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.

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 are two categories of cookies, First-party cookies which are cookies that are associated with the host domain and Third-party cookies which are cookies from any other domain.

  1. Strictly necessary cookies.

These cookies are essential to enable you to receive a service on a website, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website, make use of e-billing services or to comply with the law (e.g. such as to keep your information safe). We would not be able to operate our Website without using the “strictly necessary” cookies listed below and we use only first party cookies for the following purposes:

Cookie Name Purpose Duration
_AntiXsrfToken

This cookie is used to prevent Cross-site request forgery (often abbreviated as CSRF) attacks of the website. CSRF attacks exploit the trust that a site has in a user’s browser Session
ASP.NET_SessionId This cookie is used to identify the users session on the server. Allows the website to save your session state across different pages. When a user connects to our website, a unique session ID will be affiliated with the user. Session

  1. Analytical/Performance cookies.

They allow us to recognize 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.

These cookies are used to throttle the request rate and to distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

Some cookies are also generated by our website to track your user session to enable a smooth browsing experience and improve the performance of the website

Cookie Name

Publisher Purpose Duration
_ga Google Used to distinguish users 2 years

_gid Google Used to distinguish users 24 hours
_gat Google Used to throttle request rate. 2 years
_ajs_anonymous_id Used to count how many people visit our Website by tracking if you’ve visited before 1 year
_ajs_group_id This doesn’t currently store anything 1 year
_ajs_user_id This allows us to collect data about your usage 1 year

 

  1. Targeting/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. For these purposes we only use Third Party Cookies (DoubleClick).

Cookie Name Duration Purposes
DSID 15 days These cookies set by a third party (DoubleClick) and are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to you based on your previous visits to this website. For example, advertisements about a topic you have expressed an interest in while browsing our site may be displayed t you across the web. In addition, these cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.

For more information, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

If you wish to disable DoubleClick Cookies on your browser click here

IDE 365 days
_idcontext 2 years
_sonar 1 year
_dpm_id.5467 2 years
_ym_d 1 year
_ym_uid 1 year
cto_lwid 1 year
permutive-id 2 years
permutive-session 2 years

 

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 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 site.

 

European Union Cookie Policy

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.

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 are two categories of cookies, First-party cookies which are cookies that are associated with the host domain and Third-party cookies which are cookies from any other domain.

  1. Strictly necessary cookies.

These cookies are essential to enable you to receive a service on a website, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website, make use of e-billing services or to comply with the law (e.g. such as to keep your information safe). We would not be able to operate our Website without using the “strictly necessary” cookies listed below and we use only first party cookies for the following purposes:

Cookie Name Purpose Duration
_AntiXsrfToken

This cookie is used to prevent Cross-site request forgery (often abbreviated as CSRF) attacks of the website. CSRF attacks exploit the trust that a site has in a user’s browser Session
ASP.NET_SessionId This cookie is used to identify the users session on the server. Allows the website to save your session state across different pages. When a user connects to our website, a unique session ID will be affiliated with the user. Session

  1. Analytical/Performance cookies.

They allow us to recognize 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.

These cookies are used to throttle the request rate and to distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

Some cookies are also generated by our website to track your user session to enable a smooth browsing experience and improve the performance of the website

Cookie Name

Publisher Purpose Duration
_ga Google Used to distinguish users 2 years

_gid Google Used to distinguish users 24 hours
_gat Google Used to throttle request rate. 2 years
_ajs_anonymous_id Used to count how many people visit our Website by tracking if you’ve visited before 1 year
_ajs_group_id This doesn’t currently store anything 1 year
_ajs_user_id This allows us to collect data about your usage 1 year

 

  1. Targeting/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. For these purposes we only use Third Party Cookies (DoubleClick).

Cookie Name Duration Purposes
DSID 15 days These cookies set by a third party (DoubleClick) and are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to you based on your previous visits to this website. For example, advertisements about a topic you have expressed an interest in while browsing our site may be displayed t you across the web. In addition, these cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.

For more information, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

If you wish to disable DoubleClick Cookies on your browser click here

IDE 365 days
_idcontext 2 years
_sonar 1 year
_dpm_id.5467 2 years
_ym_d 1 year
_ym_uid 1 year
cto_lwid 1 year
permutive-id 2 years
permutive-session 2 years

 

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 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 site.