What are cookies?

This website, like most websites, works best when allowed to use cookies. When you visit this site, we may send (and store) a cookie on your computer. A cookie is a small text file sent by a web server to a web browser (Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer, for example). This cookie enables the website or web server to collect specific, but restricted, information from the web browser about the visitor (that’s you). 

How do we use cookies?

We may use cookies to help us remember you when you visit the site again and to note which page, or pages, you view and any specific preferences that you might have selected along the way - we may use this information to personalise the content that is shown to you or to prevent certain things from happening, such as an informative popup from being shown to you twice.

We use various cookies on this site. These range from long-term cookies (to remember you, or your preferences), to short-term, or session based, cookies that “expire” when you close your browser window.

We may use a number of social media tools, both 3rd party and custom built, to enhance visitor interaction (such as “Like”, “Share” or “Tweet”) on our site. If you already use these platforms their cookies may be set through our website and may be linked to your account with that provider. Data may then be used by them to customise certain adverts or functionality on their site(s) based on your usage of their service from this site.

We may use other 3rd party cookies (set from other websites, e.g. Google) to compile and store anonymous statistics about browsing patterns or site behaviour and build up a demographic profile. This data is collected along with other visitor data to form a collective analytics report. It’s important to note that this data is not personally identifiable and is only used for reporting/statistical purposes.

What if I don’t want cookies?

You are not obliged to accept any cookies from this site and most browsers allow you to decline the acceptance of cookies. If you want to know how to do this, please look at the Help menu on your browser or contact your system administrator. Please note that if you disable any cookies, certain services or pages on this website may not be available to you, or may not function as intended.

For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed or how to delete existing cookies from your hard drive – visit the following website: www.allaboutcookies.org