Information about our use of cookies
ur 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. By clicking the ‘Accept’ button and continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer.
Our legal grounds for using cookies:
Some cookies Essential Cookies we have to use in order to provide the site and the services we offer. These cookies are used on the basis that their use is in our legitimate interest bearing in mind your own interests. We do not need your consent to use these cookies although you can stop them working by adjusting your browser settings. Our site will not work if you do this.
Other Cookies such as functionality cookies are used to remember information you give us such as your name. The cookies are retained on the basis that they are necessary for the purpose of us entering into an agreement with you. We will delete the cookies when it is no longer necessary for us to keep them. This is usually done after no longer than two years. We do not need your consent to use these cookies although you can adjust your browser settings to prevent their use.
Other cookies such as targeting cookies and analytical and performance cookies are used for analytical and marketing purposes. These cookies are used with your consent. If you no longer consent to us using these cookies you can adjust your browser settings.
If you agree to us using cookies they will contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. You can delete this information from your hard drive or browser at any time by adjusting your settings. How you do this will depend on the browser you use.
We use cookies for the following reasons:
Essential or Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Analytical/statistical/performance cookies. They 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 or Marketing 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. We may also share this information with third parties, such as Google, for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Type | Name | Purpose | Expiry |
| Necessary | has_js | Registers whether or not the user has activated JavaScript in the browser | Session |
| Analytical | _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Session |
| Analytical | _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 Years |
| Analytical | __gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Session |
| Analytical | Collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
How to Control Cookies
You can block non essential cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
What happens if I say ‘no’ to allowing non essential cookies in my browser?
The website will still work and you will be able to get the information you need from the site but some functions may not work or work as well as they would with cookies.
What is the impact for us?
We use Analytical Cookies to count the number of people who use the site and to analyse how they use it. We do this to make sure that our sites are as good as they can be and this is the primary evidence we use when trying to improve what we offer to users.
If you decline cookies then your site usage won’t be counted and measured in this way so we won’t be able to take your actions into account when analyse data and seeking to improve our service based on that analysis.
Third-party cookies
If you share our pages on Facebook or other social websites you may also be sent cookies from those websites.
We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so please check these websites’ cookies and privacy policies for information about what they do.
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
For further details, see aboutcookies.org
For more information about is please see our web site privacy policy