What are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
- Cookies help to provide a better and faster online experience. Almost every website uses cookies or similar technologies.
- The next time you visit the same website using the same device, the website that originally triggered the setting of the cookie will recognise that you have visited the website before, and in some cases, it adapts the content to take account of your most prior visits. In this way, the website experience can be tailored to your personal interests and preferences.
- Cookies and web storage technologies allowing local and session storage (“cookies”) make it easier for you to interact with our website. They are typically small text files downloaded by your internet browser to your device when you visit our website. We may also place cookies on your device when you interact with website technologies from third-party providers.
- We provide information below on the use of these technologies.
Why Do We Use Cookies?
To optimise your online experience
- Cookies perform different functions that help us make your online experience smoother and more interactive. Especially if you are using the same device and browser as you did when you visited our website previously.
- Some cookies are considered essential for running and maintaining our website and they enable us to provide you with:
- access to services and functionalities; and
- consistent online experience.
First-Party Cookies versus Third-Party Cookies
- First-party cookies are cookies that the Organisation deploys on the website that you are currently visiting and with which you interact when you use our websites.
- We also use third-party cookies that protect the website functionality from being misused.
Managing Cookie Settings via your Browser
- Most browsers allow you to manage your cookies by either accepting or rejecting all cookies or accepting only certain types of cookies. The procedure for managing and deleting cookies usually can be found in your browser’s integrated help function.
Cookie Details According to Category
Necessary Cookies
- Necessary cookies are crucial for the basic functions of the website and the website will not work in its intended way without them. Necessary cookies are always on.
- We use these cookies to:
- remember your previous actions such as your cookie consent choice; and
- to protect DFL from spam by using Captcha to verify the authenticity of visitors to the site.
- The cookies in this category do not store any personally identifiable data.
Analytical Cookies (where applicable)
- Analytics cookies gather information about how visitors interact with our website.
- We use these cookies to:
- see how you engage with our site;
- find out more about your personal journey between pages; and
- to collect statistical information to help us improve the website.
- You can remove these cookies at any time via the settings in your browser.
- The cookies in this category do not store any personally identifiable data.
Personalisation Cookies
- These cookies enable a website to save user customisations (like language choices and country relevant information), so that it can offer optimised user experiences. These cookies help us to provide a website designed to be used in the best way possible. You can, deactivate these cookies at any time in the settings in your browser.
- We use cookies to help us:
- keep your details secure when you are logged in (where applicable); and
- personalise your experience on our site by showing you content you might be interested in based on previous online viewing.
- The cookies in this category do not store any personally identifiable data.