When you visit our website, we may send you a cookie. Cookies are small files which are placed on your computer or device. They allow websites to store things like user preferences. You can think of a cookie as providing a 'memory' for the website, so that it can recognize you when you come back and respond appropriately.
A visit to a page on this website may generate the following types of cookie:
These cookies are essential for the running of our website. Without the use of these cookies parts of our website would not function. For example we use temporary cookies in order to correctly lay out the web page content on your particular browser or device. These cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer or device.
Functional cookies are used to remember your preferences on our website. An example of this is remembering if you’ve been to the site before so that messages intended for first-time users are not displayed to you.
We use these types of cookies to monitor the performance of our website and how our
users may use it. These cookies provide us with information that helps us
to offer better products to our users and also to identify any areas that may
need maintenance. For example, we use performance cookies to determine the most
popular articles so that we know to provide more of them. This information is
not personally identifiable to you - we do not track 'who' is viewing a page,
just how many people.
These cookies also allow us to track how many individual users we have,
and how often they visit the site. We cannot use these cookies to
identify individuals. We use them to gather statistics, for example the number of visits to a page.
We generate cookies that let us know whether you are signed in or not. Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. These cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer or device.
These cookies are used by software which tries to work out which country you are in from the information supplied by your browser when you click on a web page. This type of cookie is completely anonymous, and we only use it to help target our content and whether to show you legal notices relevant to your country. These cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer or device.
Our advertising partner Google will use cookies for ad personalisation and measurement. Click here to learn how Google uses this information.
If you use this website from the EU/EEA, United Kingdom or California please note we will not serve you personalised adverts.
You can see and control what information Google uses to show you ads by visiting their Ad Settings page.
On some pages of our website, other organizations may also set their own anonymous cookies.
Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies, nor can the other organization access
the data in cookies we use on our website.
For example, when you share an article using a social-media sharing button (such as Facebook), the social network that has created
the button may record that you have done this.
We have no control over this, so you should refer to the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant Social Media Company before sharing content from our website.
You are not obliged to accept cookies and may modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. The browser you use to surf the web not only allows you to see which cookies you have but also allows you to control their use.
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. However, we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies, so you would not be able to use our premium content. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.
Please note, if you use your browser settings to block Cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Further information about cookies can be found on the following websites:
All About Cookies
Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Consumer Choice
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Opt-Out Page
Your Online Choices (Europe)
Information Comissioners Office (UK)
Microsoft Cookies Guide
Wikipedia
If you have any questions about the use of cookies on our website, please use our Corporate Contact Center
Please also ensure you have read our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.