Axis’ website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. ‘Cookie’ is a name for a small file, usually of letters and numbers, which is downloaded onto your device, like your computer, mobile phone, or tablet when you visit a website.

They let websites recognise your device, so that the sites can work, or work better, and also gather information about how you use the site. A cookie, by itself, can’t be used to identify you.

How do we use cookies?

Cookies help us provide a better experience when the website is browsed. They also allow us to assess our visitors’ use of the website and the journey through it, and we use this information to improve its functionality. Cookies are safe and secure, and as part of respecting the privacy of our website visitors, we do not use any cookies that collect personal information about you.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you would expect
• Allow you to share pages with social networks
• Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks

Changing your preferences

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

To remove cookies, follow the instructions of your browser: Internet Explorer:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/internet-explorer/internet-explorer-help

Firefox:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/home

Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/?hl=en

Safari: http://www.apple.com/support/safari/

Opera: http://www.opera.com/support/

For more information, please see the Information Commissioner’s Office website: http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/current_topics/changes-to-cookies-on-our-website.aspx

Types of cookies

We have classified our cookies into two broad types – ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies.’

• First party cookies

These are cookies which are served directly by the website operator to your computer. These are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits a website and to remember your preferences as you browse the site.

• Third party cookies

Third party cookies are served by a service provider on behalf of the website operator and can be used by the service provider to recognise your computer when it visits other websites. We use them to report usage statistics of the website, run our services to enable commenting on social media sharing.

In addition, cookies may be either ‘persistent’ cookies or ‘session’ cookies.

• A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date.
• A session cookie will expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed.

Cookies set by third parties

Some features used on this website may involve a cookie being sent to your computer by a third party. For example, if you view or listen to any embedded audio or video content, you may be sent cookies from the site where the embedded content is hosted. Likewise, if you share any content on this website through social media sites (for example by clicking a Facebook “like” button or a “Tweet” button) you may be sent cookies from these websites. We do not control the settings of these cookies, so please check the websites of these parties for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.