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This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect through them, how that information is used, and how to manage your cookie settings.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that store fragments of information. They are saved on your device when the website loads in your browser. These cookies help us make the website work correctly, be more secure, improve the user experience, and allow us to analyse the site's performance to identify what works and what needs improvement.
2. How do we use cookies?
Like most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for various purposes:
- First-party cookies: essential for the website to function and do not collect personally identifiable information.
- Third-party cookies: help us understand how the website works and how you interact with it, improve the security of our services, offer you relevant ads, and enhance your experience by streamlining future interactions with our site.
3. Cookies we use
We only set third-party cookies if you accept them. Strictly necessary cookies are not listed because they are essential for the site to work and do not require consent.
Google Analytics and Google Ads cookies are provided by Google Ireland Ltd. and involve an international data transfer to Google LLC (USA), covered by the Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. If you don't accept them, measurement is aggregated and cookieless; if you withdraw your acceptance of analytics cookies, _ga and _ga_<id> are deleted as well, and if you withdraw marketing, so are the Google Ads ones (_gcl_au, _gcl_aw and any other _gcl_).
Microsoft Clarity, by Microsoft Corporation, records how the site is browsed (clicks, scrolling and pages viewed) to produce heatmaps and visit recordings that help us improve the site. It hides whatever is typed into forms before sending anything and does not collect personal data the site shows back on screen. It only runs if you accept analytics cookies, and then it only uses _clck and _clsk, on this site; if you also accept marketing cookies, Microsoft adds its own on its domains (MUID, SRM_B, MR, SM, ANONCHK and CLID). If you accepted cookies before October 2026, when Clarity was not yet listed in this policy, that consent still covers Google Analytics and Google Ads but not Clarity: the cookie notice asks you again, and Clarity does not load until you accept. If you reject analytics cookies it does not load, and if you withdraw your consent it stops recording and _clck and _clsk are deleted; the cookies on Microsoft's domains expire on their own or can be deleted from your browser. It involves an international data transfer to Microsoft Corporation (USA), covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. More information in the Microsoft Privacy Statement: https://www.microsoft.com/privacy/privacystatement.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors for site usage statistics. | 2 years | Analytics · Third-party |
_ga_<id> | Google Analytics | Persists the Analytics measurement session state. | 2 years | Analytics · Third-party |
_clck | Microsoft Clarity | Stores a pseudonymous identifier to link your visits to this site. | 1 year | Analytics · Third-party |
_clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Joins the pages you visit in a row into a single recording. | 1 day | Analytics · Third-party |
_gcl_au | Google Ads | Stores an ad click so the conversion can be attributed to it later. | 3 months | Marketing · Third-party |
_gcl_aw | Google Ads | Stores the search ad click identifier (gclid) so the conversion can be attributed to it. | 3 months | Marketing · Third-party |
MUID | Microsoft | Identifies the browser across Microsoft sites, which use it for analytics, advertising and operations. | 13 months | Marketing · Third-party |
SRM_B | Microsoft | Identifies the browser for Microsoft (Bing) advertising. | 13 months | Marketing · Third-party |
MR | Microsoft | Indicates whether the MUID should be refreshed. | 7 days | Marketing · Third-party |
SM | Microsoft | Synchronises the MUID across Microsoft domains. | Session | Marketing · Third-party |
ANONCHK | Microsoft | Indicates whether the MUID is passed to the ANID advertising cookie; Clarity does not use it and it is always 0. | 10 minutes | Marketing · Third-party |
CLID | Microsoft Clarity | Identifies the first time Clarity saw this browser on any site that uses it. | 1 year | Marketing · Third-party |
4. Managing cookie preferences
You can change your preferences at any time from the 'Cookie settings' link in the footer, which reopens the consent panel so you can modify your preferences or withdraw your consent immediately.
In addition, browsers offer different options to block or delete cookies. You can manage and delete them from the settings of the most popular browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Microsoft Edge). If you use another browser, consult its official support documentation. Note that disabling certain cookies may affect how the site works.