Categories of Online Technologies
Online technologies can be categorised into the following five groups:
- Strictly necessary: These are required for the website to function and operate and enable technical functionality and provide services requested by you. For example, setting of country and language preferences, keeping you logged in during your visit, security and fraud prevention. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled and do not require consent.
- Performance: These help us us to count visits and traffic to websites so we can measure and improve the performance of our websites. These tracking technologies collect information that is aggregated.
- Functional: These enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by our third-party partners whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these technologies, then some or all of our services may not function properly.
- Advertising & Targeting: These may be either be our or our third-party partners to learn more about your interests including which products and services you are interested in or have purchased on any of our websites and apps. We and our partners use this information to show you more personalised marketing and product recommendations based on your interests and behaviour. If you do not allow these technologies, you will experience less targeted advertising by us and our third-party partners.
- Social: These may be used to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They 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. If you do not allow these technologies, you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
For more information and choice of which type of vendors and category per online technology, please see the cookie preference centre available on all our websites and apps under “Manage my cookies”.