How we use cookies

Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience and to provide you with personalized services. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our website. They help us remember your preferences, understand how you interact with our site, and improve our services.

We use different types of cookies, including:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These are essential for the operation of our website and enable you to navigate and use its features.
• Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if users encounter error messages. This data helps us to improve the performance of our website.
• Functionality cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website and allow us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

You have the option to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. For more information on how to manage cookies, please refer to your browser’s help documentation.

See our Privacy notice for more information about how we process data.