What are Cookies?

Most websites, including ours, use cookies which improve usability by enabling that website to remember you and choices that you have made on web pages. These can be either SESSION cookies, which last for the duration of your visit, or PERSISTENT cookies which retain information between one visit and the next repeat visits. An example of a session type cookie would allow for example a list of assets that you had chosen on one part of our web based Service to be used on other pages but only for the time you are logged in.

Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.

Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting which are know as first party cookies or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing third party cookies.

A cookie is simply a small text file (containing letters and numbers) that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. In general, these cookies do not contain personally identifiable information.