Cookies Policy

1. What is a cookie?

1.1 Cookies are small text files that a website sends to your browser, and your browser stores. They let the website recognise your device on later visits, remember your preferences, and keep track of things like whether you are signed in.

1.2 A cookie by itself identifies the device rather than the person using it, but some cookies contain personal information, such as a username.

1.3 We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on the sites:

1.3.1 Session cookies last only while you browse. They are deleted when you close your browser.

1.3.2 Persistent cookies stay on your device until they expire or you delete them. Ours last anywhere from 60 seconds to a year or more, depending on the job each one does.

2. What kinds of cookies are there?

There are four general categories of cookies:

2.1 Essential cookies
Essential cookies make the sites work: they keep you signed in, move you around securely, and provide the things you have asked for. Because the site cannot function without them, they do not need consent.

Essential cookies gather nothing for marketing purposes.

2.2 Performance cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use a website — which pages are visited and how people move through them. We use analytics and advertising-measurement cookies of this kind, and they run only after you consent.

We use this information to understand and improve how the sites and our campaigns work.

2.3 Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies remember choices you make — your language, staying signed in — and provide more personal features.

They cannot track your browsing on other websites, and their lifetimes vary with the job: our language-preference cookie lasts 365 days, while some short-lived ones expire within a minute.

2.4 Behaviourally targeted advertising cookies
Advertising cookies help deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests, limit how many times you see the same one, and measure how a campaign performed.

They remember that you visited a website, and that information is often shared with other organisations, such as advertisers. On our sites, cookies of this kind run only after you consent.

3. The main cookies we use

4. Third-party cookies

4.1 We use analytics tools to understand how the sites are used. They generate statistical information about website use by means of cookies, and they run only after you consent. For more about how this information is handled, see our Privacy Policy.

4.2 Our advertising and measurement partners and our payment providers may also set cookies, as can embedded content such as videos or the reviews widget. Non-essential third-party cookies wait for your consent.

4.3 Microsoft Advertising’s Universal Event Tracking (UET) tag helps us measure visits and conversions from Microsoft ads. Microsoft collects or receives personal information from our sites and from us to provide Microsoft Advertising. Depending on the implementation and browser context, the tag or Microsoft services may store or access the identifiers listed in section 3. For details, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

5. Can you block cookies?

5.1 Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can limit or block them in your browser’s privacy settings — every major browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) has a section for this under its settings.

5.2 The easiest control is the one built in: our consent banner. Essential cookies are set when you visit, because the site cannot work without them. Everything else waits for your consent, and you can change your choice at any time.

5.3 If you block all cookies in your browser, parts of our sites — signing in, above all — may stop working properly.