Privacy and cookies

We act in compliance with our data protection policy (PDF, 149KB)

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information that a website puts on a hard drive so that it can remember information about a user at a later date. Our website uses cookies in 2 ways: as a temporary session control cookie to validate access privileges and, at the user’s option, as a permanent cookie to facilitate login to the website via the ‘remember me’ option.

Cookies are not used to gather or provide usage statistics. By choosing to take advantage of these services, users consent to the use of their information for the purposes of providing these services.

Session control cookies

Session control cookies are used on most websites today because they facilitate navigation. In order to use the website, users must have their browsers set to accept cookies.

Once a user is signed onto the website, the web server uses a temporary cookie to help manage the visit to the service. This session control cookie is deleted when the user clicks on the logout button in the website or when the user quits the browser.

Remember me cookie

When a user registers to gain access to the website or its personalisation features, the user is asked to choose a user name and password. Every time the user logs into the website, he/she will be asked to enter this unique user name and password.

Users have the option of storing this information on their computers as a permanent cookie by selecting the ‘remember me’ option when logging in. This feature is optional and user-controlled. The ‘remember me’ cookie can be deleted at any time by clicking on the logout button in the website.

Users must be careful not to store their user name and password as a cookie on any computer that is not their own, since doing so would enable other users coming to that computer to access the website under their name.