A cookie is a small piece of information saved on your computer or device while visiting certain websites. Cookies are used for improving your browsing experience by allowing the website to remember your preferences and actions (such as login details). They are also used for providing information on how you use a website, such as the pages you visit. We use various cookies on our Website, including strictly necessary, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. You may read more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies and what they are used for

Some cookies are essential for our Website to work and to allow you to browse it. For example, we use user-input cookies for remembering user’s input when filling in forms that are several pages long.

Functional Cookies

Another type of cookies used are functional cookies, which remember your choices or information you’ve provided, such as your username, language, or region. This allows your next visits in our Website to be customized to your preferences. Other type of functional cookies are authentication cookies which are used for the duration of a session (or persistent, if you agree to the “remember me” function) to allow users to authenticate themselves on next visits or to gain access to authorized content across pages. The following functional cookies are used on our Website:

• User-centric security cookies. These cookies detect authentication abuses for a limited persistent duration, like repeated failed login attempts. The purpose of these cookies is to increase the security of the service.
• Load balancing session cookies are used during of the session to identify the same server in the pool in order for the load balancer to redirect user requests appropriately.
• User interface customization persistent cookies are used to store a user’s preference regarding a service across web pages.
• Multimedia content player session cookies (flash cookies) are used during the session to store technical data required for the play back video or audio content.

Performance and analytics cookies

Another type of cookies used in our website are performance cookies. These cookies only gather information for statistical purposes which would later help use improve our Website. These cookies only use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you. The performance cookies used include:

• First party analytics cookies – these cookies are used to estimate the number of unique visitors, to improve our Website, and to detect the most searched for words in search engines that lead to pages in our Website. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing. We only use these cookies to learn how our Website is performing and gain insights as to how we can improve your browsing experience.
• Third party analytics cookies – these cookies are used to measure how users interact with our Website. These cookies include Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they’ve interacted with the Website. For more information on Google Analytics and instructions on how to opt out of Google Analytics, visit Google’s information page. 

Advertising cookies

Advertising cookies are used on our Website to customize and personalize your browsing experience in our Website according to your preferences. These cookies remember which pages you have visited in our Website but they typically cannot personally identify you. We may share this information with third-parties, such as advertisers, so only the most relevant advertisements can be presented to you. 

How long cookies stay on my device?

There are two types of cookies, “persistent” cookies and “session” cookies. Persistent cookies will stay on your device after you close your browser. The length of time such a cookie will stay on your device varies from cookie to cookie. These cookies are used for a variety of purposes, such as to store your preferences for your next visits. Sessions cookies are used only for the duration of the session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser.

Can I opt out from cookies?

You can decide whether or not to accept cookies. You can do it through your browser’s settings, where you can choose (in most browsers) which cookies you accept. Please note that blocking all cookies may prevent you from using parts of our Website.