Cookie Policy

This site uses some unobtrusive cookies to store information on your computer.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Our site uses cookies dropped by us or third parties for a variety of purposes including to operate and personalize the website. Also, cookies may also be used to track how you use the site to target ads to you on other websites.

We use the following cookies:

Google Analytics – we use Google Analytics to monitor visits to our website. Google Analytics stores IP address anonymously on its servers in the US. Neither we nor Google associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information. These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a returning visitor to our site, and to track the pages that you visit during your session

The following list provides more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them.

Cookie: _ga
Name: Google Analytics
Purpose: Used to distinguish users
Info: Google Analytics cookie usage

Cookie: __utma
Name: Google Analytics
Purpose: Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

Cookie: __utmb
Name: Google Analytics
Purpose: Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

Cookie: __utmc
Name: Google Analytics
Purpose: Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.

Cookie: __utmz
Name: Google Analytics
Purpose: Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

Cookie: __utmv
Name: Google Analytics
Purpose: Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.