Effective from 1st May 2024
Cookie notice
Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are very small text files or pieces of code, which often include a unique identifier. When you visit a website, the website will request to store this text file on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Other information gathered through cookies may include the date and time of visits and how you are using the particular website. Similar technologies to cookies known as “web beacons”, “pixels” or “tags” do a similar job to cookies, allowing website operators to count page views and understand how visitors interact with and respond to certain content on a webpages. For more details on cookies and similar technologies, please visit All About Cookies.
All cookies have expiration dates that determine how long they stay in your browser:
Session Cookies –are temporary cookies that are placed on your device during your browsing session and then expire (and are automatically erased) whenever you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies –are designed to last for a pre-defined period of time, which varies depending on the nature of the cookie. Persistent cookies stay in your browser until they reach their individual expiry date, or until you manually delete them.
We use the following TYPES OF COOKIES:
- Strictly necessary / essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- 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 content displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
- Social Media Cookies –These cookies are used to personalise your interaction with social media, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Such cookies recognise users of those social media sites when you view social media content on the website. They also allow you to quickly share content across social media, through the use of simple “sharing” buttons. Some websites may also contain features that enable you to use your social media account to sign in and create/maintain an account with the website you are visiting and to enable the website operator to store your content. This involves the use of cookies.
We use FIRST AND THIRD PARTY COOKIES on our website. First party cookies are cookies placed by us to collect information about you. However, certain other cookies available on our website are placed by third party website operators. This means that the information about you collected by those third party cookies will be shared with the relevant third party. Please refer to the relevant third party website operator’s privacy notice for more information about how they may use such information.
You can find more information about the INDIVIDUAL COOKIES WE USE in the table here CENTURY TECH COOKIES
CONSENT TO USE COOKIES
Non-essential Cookies – we may only store and access non-essential cookies with your permission. You are not obliged to give consent to our use of non-essential cookies. If you give your consent and then change your mind you can block or delete them (see below).
Essential Cookies – please note that we do not need your consent to store and access essential cookies, although you can still block or delete them (see below).
BLOCKING AND DELETING COOKIES
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. For more information on cookie management and blocking or deleting cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies.