Our website uses cookies to improve your experience and streamline your interactions with our site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device to help the site provide a better user interface and in some cases, tailor the information and advertisements to your interests. This policy provides detailed information about how we use cookies and how you can manage them.
Consent
By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy. If you prefer not to accept cookies, you can adjust your browser settings to inform you when cookies are being sent, or you can outright reject cookies. However, please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website and your user experience.
Types of Cookies Used
Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our website, enabling you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services like shopping baskets or e-billing cannot be provided.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
We use performance and analytics cookies to analyze how our visitors use our website and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use these cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular and which method of linking between pages is most effective.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies are used to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.
Targeting or Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.
Specific Cookie Use
Login Information
When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies, containing no personal data and discarded upon closing your browser. For users logging in, we set cookies to save login information and screen display choices, with login cookies lasting two days and screen options cookies for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks.
Editing or Publishing
Editing or publishing an article sets an additional cookie in your browser, indicating the post ID of the article edited and expires after 1 day.
Managing Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.
For more detailed information on how to manage cookies through your specific browser settings, refer to your browser’s help documentation.
Changes to Our Cookie Policy
We may update this cookie policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Your continued use of our website, following the posting of changes to these terms, will indicate your acceptance of those changes.
