Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored in your computer or mobile device by your browser. They enable websites to keep the platform working as you expect it to, prevent non-genuine users or malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on the platform, and remember actions and preferences over a period of time. These cookies may be set by us, our service providers or advertisers.

Our Sites use different types of cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising. We use:

Strictly Necessary cookies, which are essential in order for you to be able to navigate the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the platform.

Functionality cookies to remember some of the choices you make and to provide an enhanced, more personalised experience.

Analytics cookies to collect information about how our visitors use our website, including which pages users visit most frequently, which links they click on, and if they get error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not collect information that can personally identify a user.

Advertising and targeting cookies to measure interactions with ads and prevent showing the same ads to you too often. Also to make advertising more relevant to you and more valuable to us and advertisers. These cookies are anonymous and we cannot identify you from the cookies we place.

To review or change your cookie consent choices please clear your cookies and set your preferences via the Cookie Settings manager.

Third Party Cookies

We use third parties to deliver various services in our Sites. We use Cloudflare for spam detection (more information); Google for audience analytics, ad serving and targeting (more information). We also use Facebook and Twitter for social logins. These service providers use cookies. We don’t have access to these cookies and each provider can only access their own. You can find information about their cookie policies below:

Personalised Advertising and Targeting Cookies

Personalisation of ads improves the relevance of the adverts you see and the value these ads create for advertisers. This helps fund our Sites, keeping our services free. We can not identify you from personalising ads. Advertisers sometimes use their own cookies or similar technologies like web beacons for example to better target their ads, to measure their ad campaign or to stop showing you an ad. You can learn more about how advertisers use these cookies and manage your preferences at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/ie/.

If you would like to switch off all advertising targeting cookies, you can do so from our Cookies Settings manager, which can be accessed by clearing your cookies.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors engage with our Sites. Google Analytics uses cookies to store non-personally identifiable information. You can find out more in Analytics cookies and privacy information.

Controlling individual cookies

It is possible to control and/or delete cookies as you wish. 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.

You can learn in greater detail about cookies and how to manage them here: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies

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