As part of our website, we sometimes place small files of information (known as cookies) on your computer, mobile phone or other device.

Our 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 it.

Cookies are not designed to collect personal data from your computer. The only data in a cookie is the data put into it by the websites server.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small file of letters and numbers which are stored on a user’s computer. They are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer. This allows the server to deliver a page tailored to a particular user, or the page itself can contain some script which is aware of the data in the cookie and so is able to carry information from one visit to the website to the next.

Cookies are used to improve services for you through:

• Strictly necessary – these are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to make use of online forms;
• Functionality/session – recognising that you may already have saved preferences so you don’t need to do it for every page requested;
• Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. – these cookies allow us to measure how many people are visiting our website and using services, to see how visitors move around the website and when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works for example, by making it easier to use, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for and that there is enough capacity to ensure that they are fast. They enable the web server to identify and track web browser information. Such information is collected however this is aggregate data, and is anonymous and therefore, is not linked to information that identifies any individual; and
• Third-party cookies – some third-party software utilises its own cookies over which we have little or no control. You can find out about their cookies by visiting their websites.

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How to control Cookies

Browsers will generally by default accept cookies, but most will allow you to change the browser settings to reject some or all cookies.  The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how to do this. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to manage your cookies on a wide variety of browsers. However, if you choose not to receive the Website cookies, your experience with our Website may well not be as quick or responsive as if you do receive cookies, and you may not be able to access all or parts of our site or some parts of the Website may not work at all.

You can manage your cookie consent at any time by accessing your browser settings.