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.
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website.
We use cookies on this website to:
- recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);
- obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
- carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our visitor requirements and interests;
- target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests; and
- make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain your personal data. Although we may obtain information about your computer or other electronic device such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally. In certain circumstances we may collect personal information about you—but only where you voluntarily provide it (eg by completing an online form).
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.
Apart from in the case of strictly necessary cookies, we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website.
First and third party cookies
First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by another website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use third party cookies on our website and details of these are included in the table below.
We may change the cookies used from time to time depending on site content and the cookie table will be updated when necessary.
More detail about our cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| Cookie Name | Category | Duration (mths) | Description | |
| cookieLawInfoConsent | necessary | 12 | Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | necessary | 12 | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category . | |
| viewed_cookie_policy | necessary | 11 | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | necessary | 11 | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | necessary | 11 | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | necessary | 11 | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | necessary | 11 | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”. | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | necessary | 11 | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other. |
How to turn off cookies or alter settings
You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the “Manage Cookie Consent” button on the bottom right of any page.
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can also change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 12 months.
Changes to this cookie policy
We may change this cookie policy from time to time – when we do we shall inform you via our website.
Page updated 23/1/2022
