What cookies are and why we use them
Our website uses Cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They cannot harm your computer.
We use cookies on this site to enable certain parts of the site to function and to collect information about your use of the site so that we can improve our visitors’ experience and show more relevant content and advertising.
Cookies help the website remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you
Some cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.
We also use “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site 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.
We use the following cookies:
1 Strictly 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 or make use of services. These cookies make the website work and deliver services that you’d expect, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
2 Analytical/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. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. These cookies collect information without personally identifying you. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
3 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).
4 Targeting and Advertising 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. These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests, both when you are on our websites, and when you are browsing others’ sites, as well as to measure the performance of such ads.
Managing cookies
If you wish to restrict, block or disable any Necessary cookies, you can do so by changing your browser settings. If you would like more specific information about how to change your browser settings, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which has detailed information for each browser as well as more information about cookies in general.
Please be aware that if cookies are disabled certain features of the site will not function as intended and this may affect your user experience.