Cookie Policy
In general, we use cookies to distinguish users and visitors of our website from another and to improve the appearance and functionality of our website. We also use cookies to enhance the security of our websites to prevent any fraudulent.
If you have any questions or concerns about the cookies, we use please contact us using the details provided at the end of this policy. Please read this Cookie Policy in line with our Privacy Policy as it forms part of our Data Protection Regime.
We use both first-party cookies, which are issued from our website’s own domain, and third-party cookies, which belong to and are managed by other parties, such as our partners or service providers.
The cookies used on our website can be divided into two categories:
- Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that will be deleted from your device once you close your browser. They are used to remember your device as you move within our website.
- Persistent cookies: These are longer-lasting cookies that remain on your device even after you close your browser. They are used to recognize your device each time you use our website and to remember your preferences.
Nonetheless, the classification as technically necessary or technically non-necessary also determines the cookies we use:
- Technically necessary cookies are required for our website to function properly; they enable you to navigate our website efficiently and use its functional features. An example of this is, the reminder of recently performed actions (e.g., entered text) when you return to a page within the same session.
- Technically non-essential cookies are not necessary for the proper functioning of our website, but they enable us to improve the content of our website, compile statistics for internal market analysis purposes, provide you with a more personalized online experience or provide additional features. In particular, we use analytical cookies.
Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies are used by third parties. These cookies allow third parties to recognize that you have visited our website. We and our third-party providers may also combine information obtained from these cookies with Personal Information available from other sources, including data collected about you when you use other websites and data collected about you when you are offline, whether on our website or data maintained by the third-party provider.
The Cookies that require your consent
- Hotjar: We use Hotjar, a web analytics service provided by Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julian’s Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian’s STJ 1000, Malta (“Hotjar”), to better understand usage patterns, the needs of our users and to optimize our services and user experience. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect information about user behaviour and user devices (in particular, a device’s IP address (which is collected and stored in anonymized form), screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic information (on a country-by-country basis only), preferred language for viewing our website). Hotjar stores this data in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will use this information to identify individual users, nor will the data be merged with other data about individual users. You can object to the creation of user profiles, the storage of data about your use of our website by Hotjar, and the use of tracking cookies by Hotjar on other sites at any time by following this link https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out. The use of Hotjar is based on your consent.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Inc. This means that the data collected can in principle be transmitted to a Google server in the USA, whereby the IP addresses are anonymized by means of IP anonymization so that an allocation is not possible. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can object to the collection and processing of this data by Google Analytics by setting an opt-out cookie that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en . The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is based on your consent.
You can allow, block, or delete the cookies installed on your device via the “Settings” option in your internet browser. If you set your browser settings to not allow cookies to be installed, you may not be able to use some of the services and your user experience on our website may be affected.
Please bear in mind that deleting and blocking cookies will have an impact on your user experience as parts of our website may no longer work.
