This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, text files that are stored on your computer and which enable analysis of use of the site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is, as a rule, transferred to one of Google’s servers in the US and stored there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this site from within a member state of the European Union or of the European Economic Area Agreement, your IP address will be truncated by Google. In exceptional cases, the full address may be transmitted to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this site, Google may use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to put together reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with further services related to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted from your computer as part of Google Analytics will not be added to any other data by Google. You can prevent storage of cookies by use of the appropriate settings in your browser software. However, in this case you may not be able to use all of the website’s functions to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of files generated by the cookies relating to your use of the site (including your IP address) by Google, and the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB
You will find more information on conditions of use and data protection under the Google Analytics Terms of Service and in the Google Analytics overview. We would like to point out that this website has extended Google Analytics using the code “ga(‘set’, ‘anonymizeIp’, true);” to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses (known as IP masking).