What are cookies and why do we use them?
Cookies are small data files which are placed on your device when you access certain parts of our Websites or Apps or click on our online advertisements.
Cookies do other very useful jobs, such as tell us which pages you visited the most, understand how effective our website has been to you, and improve our communication to you on our products and services. We do not use cookies to collect information that directly identifies you as an individual.
What types of cookies do we use?
To help you better understand what cookies we apply to our websites, we have classified our cookies in four categories: Strictly Necessary, Performance, Functional and Analytical and Targeting/advertising.
We use the following cookies:
(a) Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our Websites, Apps, your browsing experience and they are also used to enable authentication and security.
We use the information collected by these cookies to:
Allowing our web server to determine whether the cookie settings on your browser have been enabled or disabled. This allows us to determine whether data can be collected from your web browser;
Monitor that our websites are operating correctly and deliver content to you reliably;
If necessary, carry your information across pages to avoid re-entering;
Temporarily identifying your device after you have logged in to a secure page on our Websites and Apps so that our web server can maintain a dialogue with your browser or device in order for you to carry out certain activities.
As strictly necessary cookies are essential for our website to work, they cannot be disabled at our end. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies but opting out of them may cause some parts of our websites to not work.
(b) Performance cookies
These cookies collect information on how you use our website. For example, which pages you have visited and whether you have experienced any errors during your visit. They may also be used to perform website analytics. This data collected by these cookies is stored in an aggregate form and will not directly identify you as an individual.
We use the information collected by these cookies to:
For more accurate reporting.
Understand how our website is being used and how effective our campaigns are;
Test different versions of our website so that we can make improvements
If you limit these cookies on your browser, your browsing experience on our websites may be impacted.
(c) Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Websites or Apps, so that we can improve, enhance and personalise your visit to our website.
We use the information collected by these cookies to:
Personalise our website’s content for your preferences
Provide you various web services, including ability to watch a video
Remember the choices you make (such as your username, language and region) so you do not have to re-enter that information when you return to our Websites or Apps;
If you limit these cookies on your browser, our website cannot remember choices you’ve previously made or personalise your browsing experience.
(d) Analytical and Targeting/advertising cookies
These cookies are used to research a customer’s interest, usage and activities in relation to the Websites and Apps by implementing analytical cookie technology and platforms. These cookies may be placed on your device by us or by third parties on our behalf, including Doubleclick, Yahoo!, Google, Adobe, Quantcast, Httpool, Criteo, Teamwork, Delvify, Bidmath, Appier, DSPs and programmatic partners, and we may share the data stored in such cookies with third parties. These cookies also include universal floodlight tag, pixels and SDK. These cookies allow us to tailor our marketing to you and your interests.
Targeting cookies are not used to directly identify you. They record information like your visit to our websites, details of other websites that directed you to our websites, your responses to our online advertisements and pages you have visited, so that we and our partners can gain insights in to what communications, products and services you or other potential customers may
be interested in.
In order to gain these insights, sometimes we may analyse your cookies to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can communicate information relevant to you and your interests. We also may make use of additional information about you when it is available from internal and external third party sources.
We use the information collected by these cookies to:
tailor our advertisements or offers to you (including those on our or third party websites, such as social media networks or otherwise);
make our websites more relevant to your interests based on your past visits to our websites;
evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising activities;
improve the effectiveness of our online marketing and advertising campaigns;
help us identify customers similar to our audience;
serve relevant adverts to you on third party websites and apps;
find out about users of the Websites and Apps, including user demographics and behaviour and usage patterns;
record your use of our Websites and/or Apps and your responses to our online advertisements posted on our Websites and Apps as well as other social media platforms (such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Linkedln) to deliver personalised content to you, including ads relevant to your interests;
Data collected by these cookies is not used to send direct marketing messages to you. Therefore, disabling these cookies will not necessarily stop you from receiving marketing communications from us. You are able to opt out of receiving marketing material from us at any time and you can find more details about this in our Personal Information Collection Statement.
Our third party partners who place cookies on our website on our behalf will only apply those cookies or process any of your data in accordance with the purposes described in this Cookie Policy.
Please also note that opting out of our first-party or third-party targeting/advertising cookies does not necessarily mean that you will not see our ads, only that these ads will not be target to you through the use of such cookies.