Cookie Policy

This Site uses “cookies,” which are text files containing small amounts of information, which your computer or mobile device downloads when you visit a website. When you return to websites – or visit websites that use the same cookies – they recognise these cookies and therefore your browsing device. Cookies helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

By using our website you agree to this Policy and you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this Policy. If you do not desire to accept our use of cookies, you must then exit this Site or disable the function for cookies in your web browser software. Disabling cookies functionality may prevent you from using all features on our web-pages.

 

How to enable cookies

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

Cookie settings in Firefox

Cookie settings in Chrome

Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS

There are two main kinds of cookies: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. Session cookies only last for the duration of users using the website and are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies outlast user sessions and remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

More information about cookies: All About Cookies

 

Cookies on this website

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.

Generally, we use cookies to help us administer this website, to improve the website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you.

These are the cookies used on this website:

Session cookies

A session cookie used when you open the browser and then go to a website. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.

Google Analytics

We collect statistics on how our visitors move around the website, for example:

  • If the visitor has visited the website earlier.
  • From where the visitor has clicked onto our website.
  • Which pages that are visited on the website.
  • How long the visit lasts.
  • Which browser is being used

Google also stores this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. If you would like to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

ShareThis

ShareThis collect cookies to service and monitors “click-stream” activity, e.g. web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, time spent on each page etc. The ShareThis service only personally identifies you if you have separately signed up with ShareThis for a ShareThis account and given them your consent. You can read the ShareThis privacy policy here. This page also explains how you can opt out of the tracking aspects of the ShareThis Service if you wish to.

Catherine Brown