Information about our use of cookies
The EWA website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse EWA and also allows us to improve the site. By continuing to browse EWA, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of EWA. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas.
- Analytical/performance cookies: these allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around EWA when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way EWA works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies: these are used to recognise you when you return to EWA. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make EWA more relevant to you.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie |
Name |
Purpose |
More information |
Google Analytics |
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Google Analytics tracks and reports on website traffic, users are anonymous, just statistical information is tracked. |
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Terms and conditions toolbar |
toolbarDisplay |
To ensure that visitors go through to the terms and conditions page |
We use third party analytic traffic analysis services to provide quantitative analysis about EWA usage patterns. This information does not include your name, email, address or telephone or other personally-identifiable information.
EWA uses Google Analytics to place cookies on users’ devices and analyse the information collected by cookies in order to make the EWA website more interesting and useful.
Information that EWA collects from cookies will not be used to create profiles of users and will only be used in aggregate form. You may set your browser to refuse cookies from any website that you visit. Turning off cookies will disable some functionality enabled by logging into the site including the ability to add or alter existing content in any way. However, all regularly viewable content will remain accessible. You may opt out of Google Analytics by using a browser opt out.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after [2 months].