Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our site. Our site recognises those cookies on each subsequent visit, enabling our site to recognise you.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies (and details of how to do this are signposted at the end of this notice), our site will set cookies as soon as you visit our site.
How and Why we use cookies
We use cookies on our site to:
- Recognise you whenever you visit our site.
Remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again.
Allow you to navigate between pages efficiently.
Measure how you use our site so it can be updated and improved to give you the best possible experience on our site. - The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain information from which you can easily be identified, such as your name. However, we do collect some personal data relating to your computer or other electronic device, such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information.
In most cases we will need your consent to use cookies on our site. The exception to this is where the cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service you have requested. When you open our site in your browser a cookie pop up message will be displayed, and this will ask you for your consent for non-essential cookies to be placed on your device. If you do not click to accept cookies but you continue to use our site without disabling cookies, we will consider this to mean that you accept our use of these non-essential cookies. You may withdraw your consent or acceptance at any time by following the instructions for disabling cookies, signposted at the end of this Cookie Notice.
We use the following cookies on our site:
Functional Cookies
These non-essential cookies allow our site to remember choices you make. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites. You will see a pop-up cookies message when you first visit our site. We’ll store a cookie so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and knows not to show it again. This expires after 30 days when you will see a pop-up cookie message again to remind you of this Cookie Notice and to ask you to consent again to our use of non-essential cookies.
Third Party Performance Cookies
These non-essential cookies collect information about how visitors use our site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information that these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. These cookies can be manually disabled in your browser.
More details about how Google Analytics collects and processes data are available at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics cookies across all websites http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Where to find more information
You can adjust the settings in your web browser to determine whether (all) sites can set cookies on your computer. More information about cookies and how to manage them, specific to your browser, can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies.
If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our cookies notice or how we use cookies on our site, please contact us at [email protected].
This version was last updated on 9 September 2022.