What are cookies?
Cookies are small files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the website to recognise your device the next time you visit.
There are many different types of functions that cookies serve – e.g they can help us to remember your username and preferences or analyse how well our website is performing.
Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click to “remember me” when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location.
What sort of cookies does this website use?
1. Performance Cookies
We use them to analyse how our visitors use our websites and to monitor our website performance. This then allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our site and identifying and fixing any potential issues.
2. Functionality Cookies
We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences – e.g. cookies save you the trouble of typing in your username every time you access the site.
If you are based in the European Union and would like to learn more about how advertisers use these types of cookies or to choose not to receive them, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu. If you are based in the United States and would like to learn more, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Does anyone else use cookies on this website?
No.
The only exception to this is that we may use companies/products such as Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic.
Can a user block cookies?
The first time you accessed our website after 25 May 2012, you should have seen an overlay which explained that by continuing to access our site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
However, if you do wish to disable our cookies then this is fairly simple. As there are so many different types of internet browser it would be very hard to give details on this page. Please use you favourite search engine and search for something like “how to disable cookies”
Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly.