What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is transferred to your computer's hard drive in order to store site-related information about you.

What are cookies good for?

Cookies improve your experience of browsing the website because they help us distinguish you from other users. I other words, cookies let us make the website display the things you want to see.

We use the following types of cookies:

• Cookies essential for the website: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website and to customize your account and news profile.
• Individual setting cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website so that we can personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, the region you're from).
• Analytical cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using it. With this information we can improve the way our websites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

By continuing to browse the sites, or by submitting any forms on our sites, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.