Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

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

• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, 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.

• Google Analytics This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies (text files placed on your computer) to help the website operators analyse how users use the site.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site –

For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this site 

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout for information on opt out  

Our use is subject to Google’s current cookie policy, which you can find here:   https://policies.google.com/  

For answers on safeguarding your data (Google):

 https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site and could effect other sites you visit.

How to manage cookies

Google Chrome  (Chrome)

1. Click on the Tools icon on the browser
2. Then select Options
3. Click the Under the Hood tab from the left hand menu
4. In the Privacy section, select the Content settings button
5. To enable cookies: select Allow local data to be set option
6. To disable cookies: select Block all cookies option

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 Mozilla Firefox (Firefox)

1. Click on Tools at the browser menu
2. Select Options
3. Select the Privacy panel
4. To enable cookies, check Accept cookies for sites
5. To disable cookies, uncheck Accept cookies for sites

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 Safari on MAC OSX (Safari)

1. Click on Safari at the menu bar
2. Select the Preferences option
3. Click on Security
4. To enable cookies: In the Accept cookies section select Only from site you navigate to
5. To disable cookies: In the Accept cookies section select Never

Additional information on The EU cookie law (e-Privacy Directive) is available on the UK Information Commission Office (ICO) website: ICO

If you wish to find out more about cookies

• www.allaboutcookies.org
• www.aboutcookies.org
• www.youronlinechoices.eu

🍪 Why use the word Cookies 🍪

The term “cookie” was derived from an earlier programming term, “magic cookie,” which was a packet of data programs that kept data unchanged even after being sent and received several times.

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