Privacy Policy
Strictly Necessary Cookies
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Cookie Policy
Cookies policy
We use cookies on our website. You’ll find a banner that gives notice about this when you first visit our site. You can review the policy by accessing it from the footer of any page - which also links back to this policy.
We last updated our policy on 03/04/21.
1) Information about cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is placed onto your computer (or other electronic devices) when you access our website.
There are 4 different types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies (required for the website to run). These allow you to do things like log in securely.
- Performance cookies (which measure how many visitors use our site, which pages they visit and how they interact with the site). These help us to improve our website.
- Functionality cookies (which remember specific visitor’s preferences for the way they use our site, e.g. language settings or font size).
- Targeting/advertising cookies (these collect information about individual visitors that enable us, or third parties, to provide relevant advertisements to those who have visited our site)
Our website may use each type of cookie in order to:
- Make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable
- Improve our services
- Recognise you whenever you visit this website and distinguish you from other users of our site
- Obtain information about your preferences and use of our site
- Provide you with advertising that is tailored to your interests
- Carry out research and data analysis to help us to improve our content and services and to better understand our customer preferences and interests
Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about you. We have set out specific details of the cookies we use on our site in section 6 below.
For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies".
2) How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that if you have no concerns about our use of cookies that you accept them, however, you have the right to decline but it may affect your access to our site, or how it displays or functions.
3) Third-Party Cookies
Like many other websites, third parties may also set cookies on our website. These third parties are responsible for the cookies they set on our site and we have no control over them. For further information on how their cookies policies work, please visit their websites.
4) Managing cookies
You can manage cookies yourself.
You can set your web browser to refuse cookies, delete cookies, or alert you when cookies are being sent. You will need to visit the web browser’s site to manage, but for ease, we have provided links to popular browsers below:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Microsoft Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_US
For further information about cookies and how to manage or disable them please go to www.aboutcookies.org.
Please also note that if you change/block cookies then:
- some parts of our website may not function properly or as well as they otherwise might;
- changes will apply across all websites that you visit (unless you choose to block cookies only from particular websites), and
- the settings that you change will only apply on the device on which you change the settings and will not apply across all other devices that you use.
5) The Cookies We Set
- Forms related cookies - When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site preferences cookies - In order to provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
- Functionality cookies - These are used to remember user preferences so that the website can be customised for you.
6) Specific Cookies
We have set out in the list below details of each of the cookies on our site, a description of what they do and, where relevant, external links that provide more information about them:
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
This site uses a service called Cloudflare which speeds up the delivery of our website to you and ensures you have a consistent and unbroken experience when navigating around our site. For more information on Cloudflare cookies, see their website: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-Cloudflare-cfduid-cookie-do-