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 recognizes 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 personalized 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 Website, information may be collected through the use of cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, tags, scripts, local storage).  

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

• “Strictly necessary” cookies, which are necessary for the Website 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 privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms and managing session with the requested service.
• “Analytics and Performance” cookies, which allow us to track analytics by counting visits and traffic sources, measuring audience and usage statistics, analysing visitor interaction with our content so we can measure and improve the performance of our Website. They may be set by us or by third party providers (e.g., Adobe, Akamai, Brightcove, Qualtrics) to help us to know which pages or videos are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Website.
• “Functional cookies” which enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization based on your interaction with the website. They may be set by us or by third party providers such as Adobe, whose services we have added tour pages.
• “Advertising and targeting cookies” which may be set through our site by our advertising partners, such as Adobe. They may be used by those partners to track your online activity on our website or across several websites to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other websites They do not store personal information and are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. 

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 expiration date, unless deleted by you before the expiration 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 control and manage cookies in various ways Please keep in mind, removing or disabling cookies may impact your user experience and parts of this Website may no longer be fully functional.Where cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our Website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our Website.

Any consent to accept or to decline cookies is limited to the site for which this Cookie Notice is posted and shall not apply to other sites or any other pages of such sites, which may be hyperlinked to our Website. For more information on cookies used by those websites, please refer to the specific privacy or cookie notice on those websites.

• Consent withdrawal:

Consent can be provided or revoked by clicking on “Update your cookie preferences” at the top of this page.

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

We or our service providers on our behalf may also use tracking technologies, so that we are able to learn more about your interactions with certain email communications (e.g. newsletters, certain event invitations or marketing communications) we send to you and make our communications more helpful and interesting. We may, for example, collect information about you in the following ways:

• When you open the email, we are able to log such activity in our database.
• If you click on the “view as a web page” link, a tracking code is passed in the link to that the web page is personalized in the same way as the email.
• If you click on a web link, we pass a tracking code in the link to the web page which we use to log such activity on our database.
• If you forward the email, we will log in certain cases this information on our database.
• If you click unsubscribe, we will automatically log this information on our database. If you unsubscribe from an email communication, we will continue to store certain personal data on a "marketing suppression list" so as to record your preference.

If you do not wish us to collect information about your interactions with certain email communications and confirm, for example, 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.