The data we collect using cookies helps us understand our customers better so that we can provide a more focused user experience. Using the knowledge of your previous visits to our website, we can enhance subsequent visits by tailoring our content to match your requirements. We use cookies principally because we want to make our website and mobile applications user-friendly, and we are interested in anonymous user behaviour.
Most websites use cookies – they’re just small files that help the website you’re viewing to remember you next time you visit. There are two main types of cookies:
- Session cookies – so that the site can remember you for the duration of your visit, and
- Persistent cookies – so the site can remember you when you return to the website minutes, days or months later
Principally, cookies store your preferences and help you navigate between pages smoothly. Effectively, they help to streamline your web experience; that’s why websites use them.
Without cookies, websites would not be able to remember you from page to page, so that, for example, you would have to keep logging back in, or re-entering your security details.
Blocking cookies
You can choose to block cookies if you wish. You can also delete cookies that have already been stored on your computer. Access your browser settings through the Help menu to adjust your cookie settings. Just remember that this might affect the functions of certain websites when you return to them later.