Last revised: 16/10/2023
Please take a look at the “Last revised” legend at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Website. If you have any further queries, please contact us via this form.
Cookies are a standard feature of websites that allow us to store small amounts of data on your computer, phone or tablet about your visit to the Website. Cookies help us to learn which areas of the Website are useful and which areas need improvement. The information stored in a cookie may be used during your next visit. If you continue to browse our Website after the cookie alert, you accept the use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings. For further information see below “How do I manage cookies?”.
Below we list the different types of cookies that may be used on the Website. To the extent any personal data is collected through cookies, the Privacy Statement applies and complements this Cookie Policy.
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
| Name | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | 14 days | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
| nette-browser | session | Cookie used by the Nette framework to track sessions. |
| cc_cookie | 182 days | Cookie used by the banner to store consents. |
Analytical and performance cookies allow us to measure the performance of our website and our advertising campaigns. With their help, we determine the number of visits and the sources of traffic to our website. The data obtained through these cookies is processed in an aggregate manner, without using identifiers that point to specific users of our website. If you disable the use of analytical and performance cookies during your visit, we lose the ability to analyze performance and optimize our measures.
| Name | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ^_ga | 2 years | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gid | 1 day | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
Personalised and advertising cookies are usually set by our partners. They are used to research the user's interest and then display advertisements with relevant content. If you do not allow these cookies, advertising will not be tailored to your interests.
| Name | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ads/ga-audiences | session | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. |
| sid | 1 month | This is a very common cookie name but where it is found as a session cookie it is likely to be used as for session state management. |
| bcookie | 1 year | This is a Microsoft MSN cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. |
| sid | session | This is a very common cookie name but where it is found as a session cookie it is likely to be used as for session state management. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. |
| UserMatchHistory | 1 month | This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences. |
| bscookie | 1 year | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| IDE | 1 year | This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| _fbp [x2] | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| IDE | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficiecy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
You can change your cookie settings by clicking on the Cookie Settings button. In addition to the options provided above, you may refuse or accept cookies from the Website at any time by activating settings on your browser. Information about the procedure to follow in order to enable or disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. You may wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of the Website may operate as intended.
If you want to clear all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, here are links where you can download three programs that clean out tracking cookies:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php, http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html, and http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/.
In order to be able to offer you content that we believe may interest you based on your activity on the Website, and for fraud prevention and authentication purposes, we may also use other technologies that are similar to cookies. For example, we may gather device attributes and combine information collected by most browsers or automatically through your device to create a unique ID that identifies your browser or device to us with reasonable certainty. In this context we may collect, use and combine the following information:
We use this information:
We may also use beacons, pixel tags, or Java scripts. These enable us to remember you and serve personalized content or offers to you when you return to our Website. Note that to the extent the above-mentioned information collected through such technologies constitutes personal information, then our Privacy Statement applies to such processing. We may share this information with our third party service providers and as permitted by our Privacy Statement.