8.1 The Site uses “cookies” to ensure the best possible experience for the user. Information provided by the user is stored and packaged into a cookie which will then be sent to your web browser for later use.
What are cookies?
8.2 Cookies are pieces of information stored in your hard drive by the web server of the visited website. The server provides the browser with a cookie to save. They are used to make browsing the internet an easier experience. Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
What are the types of cookies?
8.3 Cookies may be:
Session cookies: These are used while the user is browsing. The cookies will be deleted once the session is over.
Third-party cookies: These cookies are set by the visited site only.
Permanent cookies: These cookies do not get deleted even when the browser is closed. They are used to store the user’s preferences for later use.
For more information about cookies, please see the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
“Strictly necessary” cookies
8.4 We use some cookies for purposes which are strictly necessary for your use of the Site. These may include, for example, cookies which remember your preferences and settings; which remember information that you may enter online (so that it does not have to be re-entered every time you move to another page); or which keep you logged in to portals that we may offer where you wish this to happen.
Performance cookies
8.5 Where you have permitted the use of performance cookies, we use Google Analytics to analyse the use of the Site. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. These cookies collect information such as your IP address or other identifiers, browser information, and information about the content you view and interact with to record how you use the Site. The information generated helps us to know how many users we have, which parts of the Site are most popular, what browsers are used (so we can maximize compatibility), the country or region where our users are located, and the demographics and interests of our users. This enables us to better understand who is using the Site and to improve how we present content.
Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. Google Analytics cookies may retain information for up to two years. For more information about Google Analytics services, please click here.
8.6 Where you permit performance cookies, we will also enable the functionality of Google’s reCAPTCHA product, which we use in order to check that visitors to our site are humans and not machines of any kind. If you do not enable performance cookies, certain tasks which require the submission of a form will not be able to operate. In order to check that you are a real person, the reCAPTCHA product will collect data such as a snapshot of your browser window when you visit the relevant page, browser plugins, cookies placed by Google over the preceding 6 months, number of mouse clicks you have made on the screen, date, and browser language. Further detail of Google’s data collection policies can be found in their privacy policy, mentioned above.
reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis–to determine if the form user is a human or a spambot.