A cookie is a small text file placed on your device by the websites that you visit. Cookies are then sent back to the website on each subsequent visit or to another webpage that recognises that cookie. Cookies are used in order to make the website work or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. Such information may be used to provide a more personalised and responsive service. Cookies may be either first party cookies set directly by us to your device or third-party cookies set by a third-party provider on our behalf. Whenever you use this system, information may be collected through the use of cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, tags, scripts, local storage). 

This Cookie Notice is a part of the Privacy Notice.  For more information about us and how we process personal information, please see our Privacy Notice.

This system uses cookies and web beacons that are classified into the following categories: 

• “Strictly Necessary” which are necessary for the system to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as authenticating into the system or managing your session with the requested service. 
• “Analytics and Performance” which are necessary for our systems to measure audience and usage statistics, as well as content consumption. These enable us to obtain relevant usage information to produce internal analytics so we can monitor and improve the performance of our systems.
• “Preference or functionality cookies” which allow websites to remember the users’ respective site preferences and choices (with the exclusion of essential functional cookies).
• “ targeting or advertising cookies” which track the users’ respective online activity to create user profiles to send advertising or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
• “Social Media” cookies are set by social media services (e.g., Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Wechat, Weibo, Bilibili and Youku) that we have added to the Website to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. Some of the social media services may not be available in local market and the “Social Media” cookies’ availability varies accordingly. These cookies are capable of tracking your browser across other websites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.

To view a list of the cookies that are used by the system, click the "Update your cookie preferences" button at the top of the page.

The length of time cookies will stay on your device will depend on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie.  A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by you before the expiry date.  A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of your web session, when the web browser is closed.

you can manage cookies in various ways.  Please keep in mind, removing or disabling certain cookies may affect your user experience and parts of this system may no longer be fully functional. 

you can change your cookie preferences and settings for non-essential cookies at any time by clicking the “Manage cookie preferences” option at the top of this Cookie Notice. 

you may also be able to change your browser settings to manage cookies.  you can find detailed information on how to do so at http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

We may also use tracking technologies to determine whether you have read, clicked on, or forwarded certain email communications we send to you so that we can make our communications more helpful and interesting. If you do not wish us to confirm whether you have opened, clicked on or forwarded our communications, you will need to unsubscribe, as it is not possible for us to send these emails without tracking enabled. Registered subscribers can update their communication preferences at any time by contacting us, or you can unsubscribe following the instructions in the individual email communications you receive from us.

We may modify or amend this Cookie Notice from time to time at our discretion. When we make changes to this notice, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page, and such modified or amended Cookie Notice shall be effective as to you and your information as of that revision date.

We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Notice to be informed about how we are using cookies.