Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the site work, remember your preferences, and understand how it is used. Similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, and local storage, perform comparable functions and are covered by this policy.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to keep the Website secure and functioning, to remember your choices such as your cookie preferences, and, where you consent, to measure how the Website performs and to support our marketing. You are always in control of non-essential cookies.

3. Cookies We Use

3.1 Strictly necessary cookies

These are required for the Website to function, including security, load balancing, and remembering your cookie consent. They cannot be switched off in our systems and do not require consent.

3.2 Analytics cookies

These help us understand how visitors use the Website, which pages are popular, and where we can improve. They are only set when you consent, and the data is aggregated.

3.3 Advertising and marketing cookies

These may be used to measure the effectiveness of our campaigns and to show relevant ads on other platforms. They are only set when you consent.

4. Google Consent Mode v2

We use Google Consent Mode v2, which adjusts how Google services behave based on the consent choices you make in our cookie banner. If you decline analytics or advertising cookies, Google tags respect that choice and limit data collection accordingly.

5. Third-Party Services That May Set Cookies

• Google Analytics 4: measures Website traffic and usage (analytics).

• Google Tag Manager: manages the tags and scripts used on the Website (tag management).

• Microsoft Clarity: helps us understand user behaviour through aggregated session insights (analytics).

• Meta Pixel: measures and optimises advertising on Meta platforms (advertising).

• Google Ads: measures and optimises advertising campaigns (advertising).

These providers may process data outside your country. Their use is subject to their own privacy and cookie policies.

6. Your Cookie Choices

6.1 Cookie consent banner

When you first visit, a banner lets you accept or decline non-essential cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are always active.

6.2 Changing your preferences

You can change your choices at any time using the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our Website.

6.3 Browser settings

Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect how the Website works.

6.4 Opt-out links

You can opt out of Google Analytics using Google's browser add-on, and manage advertising preferences through the settings offered by Google and Meta.

7. Other Tracking Technologies

7.1 Pixels and tags

Pixels and tags are small pieces of code that record certain actions, such as viewing a page or completing an application, to help us measure performance where you have consented.

7.2 Local and session storage

We may use your browser's local and session storage to hold information needed for the Website to function during your visit, such as your progress through the application.

8. Data Transfers

Some cookie and analytics providers are based outside your country, including in the United States. Where data is transferred internationally, appropriate safeguards are applied as described in our Privacy Policy.

9. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology or law. The current version, with the date shown above, applies to your use of the Website.

10. More Information

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at [email protected].