A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or your computer’s hard drive, if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. We use Google Analytics/performance cookies; they allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors, and to see how visitors navigate our website.

This helps us improve our website’s performance, for example, by ensuring that users easily find what they are looking for.

Google Analytics/performance cookies allow us to:

– determine which domain to measure

– recognize you when you return to our website

– remember the number and time of previous visits

– remember information about the traffic source

– determine the beginning and end of a session

– remember the value of a visitor-level custom variable.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, external service providers such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies beyond our control. These cookies are likely analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Cookies can be blocked by activating a setting in your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies. However, if you block all cookies in your browser settings (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.