Cookie policy

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies. A cookie is a small, tiny piece of text sent to your browser by a website that you visit. When you go back to the same site the cookie will help the site to remember your browser. Cookies are useful because they allow the website to recognise the user’s computer. Cookies make it possible to browse the net efficiently and to remember your preferences. The cookies that will be sent to your computer during our activity will be subject to processing based on the principles of accuracy, legality and transparency to protect your confidentiality and rights.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. Accepting cookies is not a necessary condition to browse our website. Refusal to do so could compromise some functions on the site. So it is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling cookies

If you wish you can allow, block or eliminate cookies installed on your computer by modifying the settings on your browser. Below is the procedure to follow depending on the type of browser you use:

Firefox:

1. Open Firefox
2. Press the “Alt” button on the keyboard
3. Click on “Tools” at the top of your browser window and select “Options”
4. Then select the “Privacy” icon
5. Go to “History Settings”: and then “Use custom settings”. Deselect “Allow cookies from sites” and save your preferences.
You can find more information on this link https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click on “Tools” at the top of your browser window and select “Internet Options”
3. Select “Privacy” and move the slider to set your desired privacy level (upwards to block all cookies and downwards to allow all)
4. Then click OK
You can find more information on this link http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Click on “Tools”
3. Select “Settings” and then “Advanced Settings”
4. Select “Content settings” in the “Privacy” section
5. In the “Cookies” section it is possible to deselect cookies and save your preferences
You can find more information on this link https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Safari:

1. Open Safari
2. Select the “Preferences” option in the tool bar and then select the “Security” panel in the following dialogue box
3. In the “Accept cookies” section it is possible to specify if and when Safari should save cookies from websites. For more information click on the Help button (marked by a question mark)
4. For more information on the cookies that are stored on your computer, click on “View cookies”
You can find more information on this link https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US

If you use the browser Opera you can find out more information on how to enable/disable cookies on this link http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/en/cookies.html

The cookies we use

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
No personal data is saved in these cookies; the cookies that we use are not attributable to a specific person and therefore not related to you.

Third party cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics, which is installed on your computer by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). These cookies are used to store information that does not personally identify the user and are saved on Google servers. For more information about requesting consent and disclosure please see the general rules from Google that can be viewed on the links http://www.google.co.uk/policies/privacy/  and http://www.google.com/intl/en_en/analytics/learn/privacy.html. To prevent the use of your personal data by Google analytics please refer to this link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=it.

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

More informations ?

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.