This website uses cookies

We use cookies to personalize content, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media partners, who may combine it with other information you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites you visit. They are widely used to enable websites to operate, or operate more efficiently, and to provide information to site owners. The cookies we use enable us, among other things, to improve your experience when using our website and to ensure that the website functions as you expect it to.

What are the different types of cookies?

A cookie can be classified according to its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs.

Depending on its lifetime, a cookie is either:

• a session cookie that is deleted when the user closes the browser; or
• a persistent cookie that remains on the user's computer/device for a predefined period of time.

With regard to the domains to which they belong, there are two types:

• First party cookies: These are cookies set directly by the website or domain the user is visiting.
• Third-party cookies: These are cookies set by a domain other than the one the user is visiting. This typically occurs when the website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins or advertising. When the browser or other software fetches these elements from the other sites, they can set cookies as well

What categories of cookies are used on our website?

We use 5 categories of cookies on our website:

• Essential cookies
  These cookies are strictly necessary for the functioning of the website to which you, as a user, have requested access. Essential cookies also include cookies intended for communication purposes only (for the sole purpose of transmission over the network). These essential cookies are exempt from consent.
• Cookies for audience measurement
  These cookies make it possible to generate statistics on visits in order to improve the website. The solution used for this (Matomo) anonymizes IP addresses. These cookies are exempt from consent but you can oppose their use at any time.
• Cookies related to social network sharing plugins
  These third-party cookies are set by social networks to use your browsing data in accordance with their terms, when you interact with sharing buttons of these networks integrated on the site.
• Functional cookies
  These cookies are used to personalize your user experience.
• Video cookies
  These cookies are set by a third-party service (Youtube) to use your navigation data in accordance with their conditions, when playing videos of the service embedded on our site.
  We incorporate videos on our site using the "privacy- enhanced" mode proposed by Youtube. This means that when viewing the embedded videos, no activity data is collected to personalize the Youtube viewing experience.

Understand how and why we use cookies

The tables below detail the cookies we use and their purposes.

COOKIES EXEMPT FROM CONSENT (ESSENTIAL COOKIES)
Type	Name of the cookie	Session / Persistent	First-party / Third-party	Duration	Purpose
Essential
	CookieControl	Persistent	First Party	13 months	Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.
	displayed_btm_consent	Persistent	First Party	13 months	This cookie stores acceptance of cookie policy.
	$enforce_https	Session	First Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Preserves users states across page requests.
	vgl	Persistent	First Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Determines what website content visitors see.
	close_switch_location_popup	Persistent	First Party	12 months	Determines what website content visitors see.
	$UID	Persistent	First Party	12 months	Preserves users states across page requests.
	$web_lang	Session	First Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Preserves users states across page requests.
Audience measurement
	piwik_ignore	Persistent	First Party		The cookie stores whether a user has opted-out from being tracked by Matomo.
	MATOMO_SESSID	Session	First Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Created when the opt-out feature is used.

COOKIES REQUIRING CONSENT
Type	Name of the cookie	Session / Persistent	First-party / Third-party	Duration	Purpose
Functional (Management of widgets for contests, newsletter subscriptions or other third party functions)
	__ptq.gif	Session	Third Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
	__hstc	Persistent	First Party	6 months	Collects statistical data related to the user's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website's users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customised online advertising.
	hubspotutk	Persistent	First Party	6 months	Keeps track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to the marketing platform HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts.
	__hssrc	Session	First Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Collects statistical data related to the user's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website's users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customised online advertising.
	__hssc	Persistent	First Party	30 minutes	Collects statistical data related to the user's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website's users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customised online advertising.
	NID	Persistent	Third Party	6 months	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user’s choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user’s session, such as the content of a shopping cart. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	__gads	Persistent	Third Party	13 months	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	pm_sess	Persistent	Third Party	30 minutes	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user’s choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user’s session, such as the content of a shopping cart. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	pm_sess_NNN	Persistent	Third Party	30 minutes	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user’s choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user’s session, such as the content of a shopping cart. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	aboutads_sessNNN	Persistent	Third Party	30 minutes	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user’s choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user’s session, such as the content of a shopping cart. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	FPAU	Persistent	Third Party	90 days	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	ANID	Persistent	Third Party	13 months EEA UK / 24 months elsewhere	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	AID	Persistent	Third Party	13 months EEA UK / 540 days elsewhere	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	TAID	Persistent	Third Party	14 days	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	_gcl_au	Persistent	Third Party	90 days	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	RUL	Persistent	Third Party	12 months	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	FPGCLAW	Persistent	Third Party	90 days	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	FPGCLGB	Persistent	Third Party	90 days	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	_gcl_gb	Persistent	Third Party	90 days	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	_gac_gb_	Persistent	Third Party	90 days	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	_gcl_aw	Persistent	Third Party	90 days	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	1P_JAR	Persistent	Third Party	30 days	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	Conversion	Persistent	Third Party	90 days	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	YSC	Session	Third Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Persistent	Third Party	180 days	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__k	Persistent	Third Party	180 days	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__default	Persistent	Third Party	180 days	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
Video
	GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY	Session	Third Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	ACLK_DATA	Persistent	Third Party	5 minutes	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	YSC	Session	Third Party	Deleted when browser is closed	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Persistent	Third Party	180 days	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__k	Persistent	Third Party	180 days	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__default	Persistent	Third Party	180 days	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/

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Changes to the Cookie Policy

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Last update: 01-Sep-2023