These cookies are essential to our Platform as they facilitate our authentication, sign-up or log-in process, and enable you to access a website or application or use its features. These cookies allow you to fully utilise our Platform and Services, and if they are not used, they may not function properly. We may use Strictly Necessary Cookies to collect encrypted user session identifiers, device identifiers, demographic information, log-in identifiers and information necessary to authenticate users on the Platform. These cookies are mostly session cookies and will be deleted from your computer or mobile device after each browser session.

These cookies enhance the user’s experience when they visit a website. We may use Functionality Cookies to provide enhanced and more personalised content, language, and features or to count articles viewed, to allow us to use credentials to automatically login a user, to determine the approximate device location a session, to store selected settings or remember the choices you make while browsing the Platform (such as customising a certain webpage, remembering your preferred language or remembering your username), to provide enhanced and more personalised content and features or to count articles viewed. To facilitate your access to our Platform, our servers receive and record information about your computer, device, and browser, which may include your IP address, browser type, and other software or hardware information. If you access the Platform from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device, geolocation data, or other traffic information for that device. These cookies are mostly persistent cookies and will remain on your computer or mobile device for the period of time specified in the cookie.

We and our service providers may use analytics to collect de-identified information about your use of the Platforms to help create reports and statistics on the performance of the Platforms and possibly to present you with personalised content. Analytics Cookies gather information such as your IP address, device type, device operating system, referring URLs, geographic information, date and time of page visits, and which pages you visit the most. The information allows us to measure the number of visitors to our Platforms, see the overall patterns of usage on the Platforms, help us record any difficulties you have with the Platforms, and show us the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing. Information collected via the use of Analytics Cookies will be de-identified at all time.

We may use Targeting and Advertising Cookies to provide personalised or behavioural advertising. This is done by delivering online ads based on your previous web browsing activity. Cookies are placed on your browser which will remember the websites you have visited. Advertising is then personalised based on your browsing activity and displayed to you when you visit websites who use the same advertising networks. These cookies may be combined with other information acquired from third parties. We may share this information with other organisations only for the purpose of targeting marketing and advertising and otherwise in accordance with applicable laws. This information, such as email address information, may be provided to other organisations such as Facebook and may be used by us for the purpose of retargeting and remarketing. This information will be provided securely and/or encrypted. We may also target you with ads based on your geographic location (determined by your IP address).
If you opt out of Targeting and Advertising Cookies, you may still see ads on our Platforms, however, we will not be able to personalise the ads you see based on your online behaviour. However, you may still receive targeted ads from other third party websites or social media platforms, where you have not opted out.

Our Platforms and Services may have social plug-in capabilities which may include cookies which allow you to register on our Platforms with your social network account. These cookies may also track both members and non-members of social networks for additional purposes such as behavioural advertising, analytics, and market research.