1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a site. Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, and session identifiers. They help the site remember preferences, keep you signed in, measure traffic, and improve performance.
2. How we use cookies
- Strictly necessary: required for security, load balancing, language preference, and core site functionality.
- Functional: remembering choices such as region or form fields.
- Analytics / performance: understanding how visitors use the site (for example aggregated page views and errors).
- Marketing (if enabled): measuring effectiveness of campaigns or limiting how often you see a message.
3. Third-party cookies
Some cookies may be set by trusted partners (for example analytics or embedded maps). Their use is governed by those providers’ policies as well as ours.
4. Your choices
You can control cookies through your browser settings (block, delete, or alert). Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect site functionality.
Where we rely on consent for non-essential cookies, you can withdraw consent via our cookie banner or settings where available.
5. Do Not Track
There is no consistent industry standard for “Do Not Track” signals. We treat privacy choices through our banner and browser settings as applicable.
6. Changes
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date will change when we do.
7. Contact
Questions about privacy or cookies can be sent via the Contact page or email in the site footer.