Last updated:  17 April 2025

This notice supplements our privacy policy and provides information about how we use cookies and similar technologies and how you can manage them.

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, or other device, by websites that you visit. Cookies are widely used to make websites and other applications work, or work more efficiently, and help them remember certain information and recognise your internet browser. Cookies may last until you close your browser (“session” cookies) or over repeat visits (“persistent” cookies).

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Assist you in efficiently and safely navigating and experiencing our services;
• Enable you to register, login, provide feedback and otherwise interact with our services;
• Store and honour your preferences and settings;
• Measure and analyse usage and performance data; and
• Assist us with promotional and marketing efforts (including interest-based advertising).

If you access any of our services subject to a subscription agreement or other contract between us and you or your organisation, cookies and similar technologies are used as necessary for the performance of that contract and for our legitimate business operations related to providing the service.

We use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are set to provide the service, application or resource requested. Without these cookies, your request cannot be delivered. They are usually only set to manage actions made by you, such as requesting website visual elements, pages resources or due user login/logoff. We can also use these cookies to set up essential functionalities for the security and efficiency of the service requested, like authentication and load balancer request.
• Performance cookies: These cookies are set to provide quantitative measures of website visitors. Information collected with these cookies is used in operations to measure website or software KPIs, such as performance. With the usage of these cookies, we are able to count visits and traffic sources to improve the performance of our site and application.
• Functional cookies: These cookies are set by us or by third party service providers we use to implement additional functionalities or to enhance features and website performance, however they are not directly related with the service you requested. Services and functionalities implemented by these cookies support features like automatic filled text box, live web chat platform, non-necessary forms, and optional security parameters like a single sign-on (SSO).
• Targeting cookies: These cookies are set by our advertising partners (including those listed in the below table) to provide behavioural advertising and re-marketing analytical data. They collect any type of browsing information necessary to create profiles and to understand user habits in order to develop an individual and specific advertising routine. The profile created regarding your browsing interest and behaviour is used to customise the ads you see when you access other websites. 

Details about the cookies set by our websites and by third parties, including service providers acting on our behalf, are listed below or in the cookie control tool made available on the site.

You can manage the use of certain types of cookies, including targeting cookies used for personalised advertising, also known as interest-based advertising (IBA), by amending your cookies settings via the links in the cookie list above or in the cookie control tool made available on the site. You also may be able to block or delete cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser privacy preferences menu.

You can also opt out of IBA by turning off targeting cookies used for IBA via the consumer choice tools created under self-regulation programs in many countries, such as the US-based YourAdChoices, the Canada-based AdChoices or the EU-based Your Online Choices.

Certain content and features in our services depend on cookies to function. For example, authentication cookies are used to identify and recognise registered users and to enable them to gain access to requested content or features. If you choose to block cookies, you cannot sign in or use certain content or features. If you choose to delete cookies, any settings and preferences dependent on those cookies will be lost.

Some of our websites, applications, or electronic communications contain electronic tags known as web beacons, gifs or pixel tags, unique identifiers and similar technologies that help deliver cookies, measure online activity, provide more relevant advertising, or analyse the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other operations.

We may also use technologies from third-party data security providers to maintain online security and protect our websites and other services against fraud and abuse.