A Cookie is a small text file which is placed on to your computer, smartphone or tablet via your web browser when you visit our website to enable our own system to recognise you when you visit our website again and to improve your use of our website.
Cookies may be temporary (or “session”) cookies, which are only in use while you visit our website and are deleted when you close your browser, or permanent cookies, which stay on your device’s permanent storage after you leave our website until you delete them manually or your browser deletes them after a period of time.
We use the following types of Cookies on our website:
Essential Cookies (or strictly necessary Cookies). These Cookies are required for the operation of our website and are necessary for the safety, security and integrity of our website. For example, they help support the structure of the pages that are displayed to you, help to improve navigation and allow you to return to pages you have previously visited.
Performance Cookies or Analytical Cookies. These collect, analyse and report information on the performance of our websites. With them, we can fix any errors or make improvements on any not-so-easy-to-navigate pages. In addition to this we use third-party web analytics software on our website to help us understand how well our website and promotional content are performing. These Cookies are only processed with your consent. Analytics Cookies collect information about how you and other visitors use our websites. This can be anything from which pages you go to most often or if you get error messages from web pages. We use data from these Cookies to help test designs and to ensure a consistent look and feel is maintained on your visit to our website. In addition to this we use third-party web analytics software on our website (such as Google Analytics) to help us understand how well our website is performing.
We use cookies for the following reasons:
A full list of the cookies used on our website can be found by clicking here.
Most web browser settings are set for you to accept both our own Cookies and third-party Cookies. However, you are able to adjust those settings (in relation to both our own Cookies and those of third parties) to accept the Cookies, to prompt you to accept or refuse a Cookie each time one is sent, or to reject all Cookies outright. You can stop Cookies being used on your device by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to block the deployment of all or some Cookies. Please visit www.allaboutcookies.org to find out how. Please note, if you use your browser settings to block Cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
We recommend that, for the highest functionality of the website, you accept both our own Cookies and third-party Cookies but please be aware that if you don't, certain functionality of the website may not be available and your use of the website may therefore be diminished.
If you have a question about this policy please contact us. We may review and amend the contents of this policy from time to time, therefore, we recommend you check it regularly.