Cookies

The UK government has published guidelines on the use of cookies by website.  You can find a copy of their guidance on the ICO website here. 

We use a number of different cookies on our site. Cookies are small text files that sites like ours place on your computer to enable us to give you a better experience. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit read the guidelines from the UK government for detailed guidance.

The list below describe the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

First Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

Analytics: We use Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

Websites: Our website cookies are used to store basic data on your interactions with our systems, and whether you have logged. We use a session cookie, for example, to remember your log-in for you if you are a registered user and we deem these as being strictly necessary to the working of the website.

If these are disabled then functionality on the site will be broken.

 

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are typically buttons across the site to allow visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by organisations like Facebook. In order to implement the various buttons and other functionality, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website.

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.