Cookies

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device if you give us consent to do so. Cookies contain small amounts of information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Cookies allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve your user experience.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with the best possible experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.

We use the following cookies.

Category 1: Strictly necessary

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website.

Category 2: Analytical/performance

We use Google Analytics to monitor the usage of our website and the website is built on WordPress, which provides us with some basic analytics and performance statistics that are generated by user traffic on our website. The analytical and performance cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. For information about Google Analytics cookies, see: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Category 3: Functionality

These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. 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).

Category 4: Targeting

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 our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Social media

These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You can edit your cookies preferences on each third-party website you visit from our website by checking their cookies settings. This may be displayed as a banner when you visit their website, or it may be accessed from their privacy or cookies policy pages.

Can I use this website without cookies?

Yes, although some third-party services such as embedded YouTube videos and social sharing buttons may not function properly.

Opting out

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site and this may prevent some parts of our website working correctly for you.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.