Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy has been prepared to explain the types of cookies used by the Website, their purposes, retention periods, and how they may be managed by users. Essential cookies used on the Website are required for its secure and proper operation. Non-essential analytical, performance, marketing, and targeting cookies are used in accordance with users' preferences and the cookie consent mechanism.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device through your web browser when you visit a website. They may be used for purposes such as enabling the website to function correctly, remembering user preferences, measuring website performance, and improving the user experience.

2. Types of Cookies Used and Their Purposes

The Website may use the following categories of cookies according to their intended purposes:

• Essential and Technical Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to perform its core functions. They may be used for security verification, session management, form security, remembering your cookie preferences, and ensuring technical performance. If these cookies are disabled, certain parts of the Website may not function properly.
• Functional Cookies: These cookies may be used to remember user preferences and make the Website more convenient to use. This may include language selection, display preferences, or similar user settings.
• Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies may be used to understand how visitors use the Website, identify the most frequently visited pages, and measure how the Website's performance can be improved. These cookies are activated only in accordance with users' preferences.
• Marketing and Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be used for advertising, remarketing, conversion tracking, or delivering content based on users' interests. They are used only with the user's consent.
• Third-Party Cookies: Third-party service providers may use cookies through maps, videos, social media links, security tools, analytics services, or embedded content available on the Website. These cookies are subject to the privacy and cookie policies of the respective service providers.

3. Technologies That May Be Used on the Website

Depending on the Website's technical infrastructure and the technologies used for security, analytics, performance measurement, advertising, maps, and embedded content, various cookies may be employed.

• Cookie Preference Management: Cookies may be used to store users' cookie preferences and remember previously selected settings.
• Website Security: Cookies may be used to protect the Website against spam, misuse, unauthorised access attempts, malicious traffic, and other security threats.
• Form Security: Cookies may be used to ensure the secure operation of contact and enquiry forms, prevent spam submissions, and block automated bot activity.
• Analytics and Performance Measurement: Cookies may be used to measure website traffic, understand visitor behaviour, and improve the Website's overall performance.
• Advertising and Conversion Tracking: Cookies may be used to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, support remarketing activities, or provide users with content relevant to their interests.
• Maps and Embedded Content: Cookies may be used to display maps, play videos, provide social media integrations, or display third-party embedded content.

Not all of the technologies listed above may be active on every Website. The cookies and technologies used may vary depending on the Website's technical requirements, the services implemented, and users' cookie preferences.

4. Managing and Controlling Cookies

Users may manage their cookie preferences through the cookie consent banner presented when they first visit the Website. As essential cookies are required for the proper operation of the Website, they may not be disabled. Analytical, performance, marketing, and targeting cookies may be accepted, rejected, or customised according to users' preferences. Users may also block, delete, or modify cookie settings through their web browser. However, disabling all cookies via browser settings may prevent certain features of the Website from functioning correctly.

5. Cookie Retention Periods

The retention period of cookies may vary depending on the type and purpose of the cookie. Some cookies are stored only for the duration of your browsing session, while others may remain on your device for longer periods to remember user preferences, maintain security, or support analytical processes. If you change your cookie preferences or delete cookies through your browser settings, the relevant cookies may be removed. The retention periods of cookies used by third-party service providers are determined in accordance with their own policies.

6. Third-Party Cookies and External Services

Certain third-party services used on the Website, including those for maps, video playback, security, analytics, advertising, or performance measurement, may use their own cookies. The use and management of these cookies are governed by the privacy and cookie policies of the respective third-party service providers. The Website is not directly responsible for the data processing activities carried out by these providers on their own platforms. Users are encouraged to review the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant service providers.

7. Changing Your Cookie Preferences

Users may modify the cookie preferences they have previously selected through the cookie preference panel provided on the Website. They may also delete cookies or block their use through their browser settings. Where a cookie preference panel is available on the Website, users may update their preferences regarding non-essential cookie categories at any time.

8. Policy Updates

The Website reserves the right to update this Cookie Policy in response to technological developments, changes to the services used, or legal requirements. Any amendments shall become effective from the date they are published on this page. ```