A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

There are two kinds of cookies, session and persistent cookies. Session cookies are stored in temporary memory and are erased once you close your web browser. Persistent cookies are stored on your hard drive until their expiration date. We use first and third party cookies on the Site to:

• enable you to navigate the Site and to use their services and features. Without these cookies, the Site will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like them to and we may not be able to provide the Site or certain services or features.
• collect analytics about your use of the Site, and enable us to improve the way they work. It help us record any difficulties you have with the Site, and show us whether our promotional campaigns are effective. This allows us to see the overall patterns of usage on the Site, rather than the usage of a single person.
• check if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies and other policies on this Site.

Some of our pages or subsites may use additional or different cookies to the ones described above. If so, the details of these will be provided in their specific cookies notice page. You may be asked for your agreement to store these cookies.

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.