Strictly necessary cookies
These are required for the website to function, for example to maintain a session or to record your cookie choices. They are set on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing a functional and secure website, and they cannot be disabled through the cookie banner without affecting site operation.
Blocking this group in the browser is possible, but the site may then lose its session between pages or ask you for the same decision again on the next visit.
Functional cookies
These remember choices you have made, such as language or display preferences, so that the site behaves consistently on a return visit. They are optional. If they are disabled, the site still works, but preferences may not persist between visits.
Because they store a preference rather than identify you, they are kept to the minimum needed for the choice to survive from one page to the next.
Analytics cookies
Where analytics are used, they help us understand which pages are visited and how the site is used, so that content can be improved. Analytics data is used in aggregated form. Analytics cookies are optional and are set only where consent has been given.
Declining this group changes nothing about how the site behaves for you; it only means your visit is not counted in the aggregate.
Comparable technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser when you visit a website. They allow a site to recognise a browser across requests, for example to keep a session open or to remember a preference. Comparable technologies, such as local storage, serve similar purposes and are treated the same way in this policy.
Where a comparable technology acts like one of the groups above, it belongs to that group and obeys the same choice.