Cookie Policy

Like many websites, our website uses cookies to collect data. Cookies are small data files that are downloaded to your device to improve your user-experience. Some cookies are necessary to make our website work e.g. to remember your login details. You can’t switch these essential cookies off through managing cookies. Others are optional but improve your online experience and customise content for you. We will not set any optional cookies unless you enable them using the managing cookies pop-up banner. This banner is displayed when you visit our website.Or youcan manag your cookies at any time by scrolling to the bottom of your page and selecting ‘Cookie Settings’.

Visit Wikipedia for more general information on cookies

Examples of how we use cookies include Google Analytics cookies which we use to collect information on how people use our website, including the number of visitors to our site and which parts of the site they visit. This information helps us to make improvements to our website and make sure it is meeting your needs.

Category 1 – strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

Category 2 – performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

Category 3 – functionality cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Category 4 – targeting or advertising cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time by going to the bottom of your page and selecting ‘Cookie Settings’

Alternatively, you can set your browser so that it will not accept or store ANY cookies, however this may downgrade or affect certain parts of the websites you visit’s functionality. If you would like to block cookies, there are a number of ways you can do this depending on what browser you’re using. To learn more about how to disable cookies visit Cookies and You.

For more information about how we process your data as a website user, please see our Privacy policy.