We want to ensure a pleasant and effective experience to the users browsing our website. For this purpose, this website installs the so-called cookies on your computer in order to collect information on the way you use our website.

1. What are cookies?

1. 1. Cookies are text files containing small pieces of information that are stored on the user’s device whenever the user visits a website. The cookies are then sent back to the source website, every time the user visits the site, or are sent to another website that recognises that same cookie.
   2. The cookies allow our systems to recognise the user’s device and to make any pre-settings immediately available.
   3. As soon as the user accesses the platform, a cookie is sent to the hard drive of their computer.

1. Why are cookies useful?

1. 1. Cookies are useful for the reasons below:

• they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to display the type of content which is best suited to the interests of that specific user;
• they help us improve our website and offer users a better and more personalised service;
• they allow us to recognise your device next time you visit our website; 
• they store information about the your favourite browsing activities, thus allowing us to make our website more suited to your interests.

Where permitted, for example, we can show advertising that is relevant to your personal interests and we can speed up response times to your requests.

1. 1. By using our website, you authorise us to install the types of cookies described below on your device and to use the data collected in compliance with the policy herein (unless you configured your device browser to reject cookies).
   2. For further information on cookies, you can visit: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu

1. Types of cookies

There are two broad categories of cookies: “proprietary cookies” and “third-party cookies”:

1. 1. Proprietary cookies are installed on the user’s device directly by the website provider. Such cookies are often used to recognise the user’s device whenever the user visits the website again and to remember the user’s browsing preferences. Essentially, these are the cookies we use.
   2. Third-party cookies are installed by a service provider on behalf of the website provider and may be used by the service provider to recognise the user’s device whenever the user visits other websites. Third party cookies are most commonly used for advertising or access detection purposes.

1. Use of Cookies

1. 1. This table explains which cookies we use and why.

1. 1. We do not monitor the publication of third-party cookies. For further information concerning the use of these cookies, please visit the website of the relevant third parties.
   2. If you do not want cookies to be used, you can configure your device browser to reject them.
   3. If you only want to accept our cookies, but not those of our service providers and partners, select the third-party cookies blocking setting in your device browser.

1. Use of Google Analytics

1. 1. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (“Google”).
   2. Google Analytics uses the so-called cookies as well, i.e. text files that are stored on the user’s device in order to analyse how users use the website.
   3. The information generated by the cookies on how the user uses this website is normally sent to a Google server in the United States and stored there.
   4. However, in case of activation of the IP anonymization on this website, Google will originally truncate the user’s IP address for the Member States of the European Union or the other Member States of the European Economic Area. In exceptional cases only, a complete IP address is sent to a Google server in the United States and then truncated there.
   5. Google will use such information on our behalf, in order to assess how users use the website, draw up reports on website activity and provide additional services related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transferred from the user’s browser to Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.
   6. You can prevent the storage of cookies by properly configuring your browser software. In this case, however, you might no longer be able to use all the functions of this website. You can prevent all data generated by cookies and related to the way you use the website (including your IP address) from being collected and processed by Google by downloading and installing a browser plug-in from the following link:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

1. How to change your Cookie preferences

In most browsers, it is possible to monitor cookies through the related settings (such as notifications of new cookies, possibility to disable and delete cookies). For further information, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.