Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. You may delete and block non-essential cookies from this website, but if you choose to do so parts of this site may not work.

We use the following cookies.

Functionality cookies

These are cookies enable our Site to function. They allow you to move around our website and use its features, log-in to your account and remember certain preferences. Some of these cookies may be ‘strictly necessary’ to our service and we explain what this means in further detail below.

Analytical or performance cookies

These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Targeting cookies

These cookies record your visit to our Site, 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.

Cookies can also be categorised as follows.

Session cookies

These are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page, but they do not collect any personal data from your computer.

Persistent cookies

A persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer, and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.

Some of the cookies that we use on our Site are strictly necessary for it to function and cannot be deactivated. You can choose to have your browser block or alert you on these types of cookies, however, this may result in some parts of the Site not working. These cookies do not store information that will identify you directly. However, other non-essential cookies may be deactivated, through the consent mechanism provided on our pop-up Cookie Banner when you access our Site.

You can also block cookies via the settings on your internet browser. This will allow you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. If you use this setting to block all cookies, including those that are essential, you may not be able to access all parts of our Site. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.