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The Companies use cookies to improve user experience, as well as to provide certain information to the Companies to help us improve the product in the future.
The Sites use cookies for four main functions:
- To remember you and your preferences;
- Track user movements;
- Measure page usage; and
- Target content that is relevant to you
Cookie types include:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies (Always active): These cookies are strictly necessary so that you can navigate this site and access all functionality of this product. Without these cookies we cannot provide you with the service that you expect.
- Analytics & Customization: These cookies collect information that is used to help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our Websites for you.
- Functional Cookies (Advertising & Social Media): These cookies are used by us and our service providers to make advertising messages more relevant to you or to enable you to share pages and content through third-party social networking and other websites. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your history.
You may be sent cookies by other websites that you interact with when you use our Sites such as social media sites. the Companies also use third party products that set cookies, for example: Google Analytics, which helps us monitor site usage and therefore improve user experience, and Google Adwords which uses cookies to enable our ads to be shown across the Internet to those who have previously visited our site.