Cookies Policy

This page sets out our policy on the use of cookies on this website. We take your privacy seriously and you can view our privacy notice here.

If You Send Us Personal Information

Our website will only collect personal information which you knowingly and voluntarily provide by, for example, if you take part in surveys, questionnaires, competitions and promotions. If you provide us with personal information, we will ensure that it is treated in accordance with Data Protection Legislation.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device for accessing the internet, whenever you visit our website. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers.

Most websites visited will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).

Most websites use cookies for a variety of reasons, such as to determine preferences, let users navigate between pages efficiently, verify the user and carry out other essential security, and these are all termed as ‘non-evasive’.

Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first-party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third-party cookies’).

N.B. Persistent cookies remain after your browser is closed.

You can find more information about cookies at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

DIFFERENT FORMS OF COOKIES

Essential Cookies

Essential Cookies let you move around the website and use essential features like secure areas. These cookies don’t gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet. You cannot opt out of these cookies and therefore should not continue to use this site or else, set up your browser to block cookies from this site (See ‘Managing your cookies’ below).

N.B. It is assumed that by using this site you have agreed to accept Essential Cookies. If you use the browser to block Essential Cookies it will prevent the site from functioning as intended.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our website, for example, which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve our website, the service it provides to you, what interests our users and measure how effective the website is.

It is possible to block performance cookies if you want to by using the cookie control application. Just click on the cookie icon in the bottom right of your browser screen and change the settings.

We use performance cookies to:

  • Provide statistics on how our website is used.
  • See how effective our marketing is (we don’t use this information to target adverts to you when you visit other websites).
  • Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur.

Performance cookies will NOT be used to:

  • Gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you on other websites.
  • Target adverts to you on any other website.

MANAGING YOUR COOKIES

Use the cookie control applications to change your cookie preferences by clicking on the cookie icon in the bottom right of your browser screen.

You can also control your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Your browser’s ‘help’ function will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You can also disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer.

Cookies are often used to enable and improve certain functions on our website. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it is possible that this will affect how our website works.

We have provided the following websites for further information on cookies:

Information about cookies

Comprehensive information on how to block or erase cookies on a wide variety of desktop browsers: https://www.aboutcookies.org

Useful information about cookies can be found at: https://www.allaboutcookies.org

Internet Advertising Bureau

A guide to behavioural advertising and online privacy has been produced by the internet advertising industry which can be found at: https://www.youronlinechoices.eu