To make our site easier and more intuitive, we use cookies. Cookies are small portions of data that allow us to compare new and past visitors and understand how users browse through our site. We use cookie data collected to make the navigation experience more enjoyable and more efficient in the future.
Cookies do not record any personal information about a user, and any identifiable data will not be stored. If you want to disable the use of cookies, you must customize your computer’s settings by deleting all cookies or activating a warning message when cookies are stored. To proceed without changing the cookie application, just keep on navigating.
Visit AboutCookies.org for more information about cookies and how they affect your navigation experience.
The types of cookies we use
Cookies are indispensable
These cookies are essential to allow you to move around the site and fully utilize its features, such as accessing the various protected areas of the site. Without these cookies some necessary services, such as compiling a form for a contest, can not be used.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how users use a website, such as the most visited pages, if you receive error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information collected through cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve the functioning of a website.
By using our site, you agree that such cookies may be installed on your device.
Functionality cookies
Cookies allow the site to remember the choices made by the user (such as name, language, or region) and provide advanced custom features. These cookies can also be used to remember the changes made to the text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They can also be used to provide services that you have asked for how to watch a video or comments on a blog. Information collected from these types of cookies can be made anonymous and unable to track your browsing activity on other websites.
By using our site, you agree that such cookies may be installed on your device.
How to handle cookies on your PC
If you want to allow cookies from our site, please follow the steps below,
Google Chrome
1. Click on “Tools” at the top of the browser window and select Options
2. Click on the ‘Tabs to Reduce’ tab, locate the ‘Privacy’ section, and select the ‘Content Settings’ button
3. Now select ‘Allow local data to set’
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
1. Click on “Tools” at the top of the browser window and select ‘Internet Options’, then click on the ‘Privacy’ tab
2. To enable cookies in your browser, make sure that the privacy level is set to Medium or below,
3. Setting the privacy level above Medium will disable the use of cookies.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Click on “Tools” at the top of the browser window and select “Options”
2. Then select the Privacy icon
3. Click Cookies, then select ‘I allow sites to use cookies’
Safari
1. Click the Cog icon at the top of the browser window and select the “Preferences”
2. Click ‘Security’, select the option that says ‘Third Party Block and Advertising Cookies’
3. Click ‘Save’
How to handle cookies on Mac
If you want to allow cookies from our site, please follow the steps below:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 on OSX
1. Click ‘Explore’ at the top of the browser window and select the ‘Preferences’ option
2. Scroll down to see “Cookies” in the File Receive section
3. Select ‘Do Not Ask’
Safari on OSX
1. Click ‘Safari’ at the top of the browser window and select the ‘Preferences’ option
2. Click ‘Security’ and then ‘Accept cookies’
3. Select “Only From Site”
Mozilla and Netscape on OSX
1. Click ‘Mozilla’ or ‘Netscape’ at the top of your browser window and select the ‘Preferences’ option
2. Scroll down to see cookies under ‘Privacy and Security’
3. Select ‘Enable cookies only for source site’
Opera
1. Click ‘Menu’ at the top of the browser window and select ‘Settings’
2. Then select “Preferences”, select the ‘Advanced’ tab
3. Then select the ‘Accept cookies’ option
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files stored on your computer to allow the website to analyze how users use the site. Information generated by the web site cookie (including your anonymous IP address) will be transmitted and filed with Google servers in the United States. Google will use this information to examine your site usage, compile site activity reports for its operators, and provide other services related to website activities and the use of the internet. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where this is required by law or where such third parties refer the above information to Google. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse to use cookies by selecting the appropriate setting on your browser, but please note that if you do this you may not be able to use all the features of this web site. By using this web site, you consent to the processing of your data by Google for the above mentioned modalities and purposes.
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