Websites use cookies to improve your experience on the website. A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit a websites that makes use of cookies.

Cookies are used to collect information that makes the website remember you and tells us how you use our website, web-related products and services. This, in turn, helps website owners make their websites relevant to your interests and needs. They also help them find information once you have logged in or help them to link your browsing information to you and your personal information, for example, when you choose to register for a service. They may use a persistent cookie (a cookie that stays linked to your browser) to record your details so they can recognise you if you visit their website again. If you choose not to accept non-necessary cookies from a website this may limit its functionalities or performance.

Cookies themselves do not hold Personal Information nor do they pose danger to your device. They only have a unique alphanumerical identifier that is stored on your device. However, the information can be considered Personal Information as defined under PoPIA, when used as part of certain activities.

You can set your browser to block different types of cookies. Some of the more popular browsers are: Internet Explorer, Forefox, Safari and Google Chrome.

Depending on their purpose, cookies can be classified as strictly necessary or non-necessary. A strictly necessary cookie is one that is essential to the proper functioning of a website. These cookies are not optional, and cannot be turned off. All websites require strictly necessary cookies in order to operate properly. For example, cookies that remember logged-in users. A non-strictly necessary cookie is not essential to the website function but may improve a user’s experience with the website. For example, cookies set by a chat widget installed on your site. These cookies may not affect the operation of the website, but they enable site administrators to connect with users.


How we use cookies

Because we respect your right to privacy this website only make use of necessary third-party cookies (Google __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmt and utmz), these are cookies set by Google Analytics for necessary statistics on website visits and does not directly identify you in any way.

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. These cookies are used to distinguish between the type and version of the web browser being used, the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit as well as the duration of the website visit and the time a user leaves the website. It also collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used.