Cookies Policy

We use cookies to keep our sites reliable, secure and personalised. When you accept cookies, this helps make the site better by remembering your preferences, customising content or ads, and enhancing your experience of our content and material.

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information. If you have any queries about the way we use your personal information or cookies, please contact us at [email protected].

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which a website may place on your computer or device when you visit a site. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons, pixels or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

Cookies serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your preferences, analyse how well our Sites are performing, or allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.

The majority of websites use cookies to collect and retain personal information about their visitors. Most cookies collect general information, such as how visitors arrive at and use our Sites, the device they are using, their internet protocol address (IP address), what pages they are viewing and their approximate location (for example, we would be able to recognise that you are visiting our Sites from Hong Kong).

Purpose of cookies

Operating our Sites

Some cookies are essential for the operation of our Sites. This includes cookies for the following purposes:

• Functionality – We use these cookies to monitor Site performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to track error messages, and to determine improvements to our Sites. We also use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, we use functionality cookies to provide you with enhanced services, such as allowing you to watch a video online or comment on a blog. 

• Analytics – we use cookies to help us understand our visitors and the success of our content. For example, we count views of our articles posted on our site. We also use analytics cookies to keep track of how many advertising impressions have been served for a campaign and to manage the frequency at which you see the same advertisements. 
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• Fraud prevention – we use cookies to monitor and prevent suspicious activity and fraudulent traffic.

Personalisation

We use cookies to improve your experience of our website by personalising our Sites. For example, we help you to find new content and recommend email alerts based on the category of content that you read. Where our Sites have such functionality, you can manage elements of personalisation in your account.

Advertising

We use cookies to serve you with advertisements that we think those are of your interest. You may see these advertisements on our Sites and on other sites that you visit. For example, you may see advertisements for our Sites on other websites if you have previously visited our Sites. You may disable such function of cookies where it is offered in our Sites. Please note, if you turn this off you will still see the same number of advertisements but they may be less relevant to you. You may continue to see “contextual” advertisements that you may not be interested in.

Third party cookies on our Sites

We also use third party cookies on our Sites for the following reasons:

• to help us monitor traffic on our Sites (such as Google Analytics);
• to identify fraudulent or non-human traffic;
• to assist with market research;
• to enhance Site functionality;
• to monitor compliance with our terms and conditions and copyright policy.

These third-party cookies are used within programmatic for measurement and attribution, and management of frequency. They may also be used for personalisation of advertisements based on data you have shared with third parties, to the extent that you have consented to this.

Advertisers sometimes use their own cookies to measure performance and to identify fraudulent or non-human traffic. To the extent that you have given them your consent to do so, advertisers may also provide you with targeted advertising based on their data. For example, advertisers may use a profile they have built either on their own site or on sites that you have previously visited to present you with more relevant advertisements during your visit to our website.

How to manage cookies

If you wish to manage your cookies, the “Help” section in your browser should provide instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Please note that by deleting or disabling future cookies, your user experience may be affected, and you might not be able to take advantage of certain functions of our site, and the complete user experience.

More information

Further information about our data processing can be found in our Privacy Policy. If you have any queries regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact us at [email protected].

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We will be posted any changes made to this cookie policy. If changes are significant, we may notify you by email or by posting on our home page that the policy has been updated.