What are cookies and why do we use them?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that website operators store on your computer or mobile device. Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you do not give your consent to the setting of some cookies and/or use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. We use cookies to store and retrieve session information in our on-line systems, and for analyzing traffic on our websites as further set out below.
Types of Cookies
There are four types of cookies that we use on the website:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies, These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site.
- The performance or Analytical Cookies, These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website. For example, we use Google Analytics to track anonymized usage statistics for the site. This data is used to analyze how frequently people visit the site, how the website is found, and which pages are most frequently viewed. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall view of website use and is never identified individually or personally. These cookies are only used to identify ways to improve the website. To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information about Google Analytics, and the cookies it sets, please visit: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies
- Functionality Cookies, These cookies allow us to recognize you and remember choices you make (such as choice of language or mobile device preferences) when you return to our website.
- Advertising / Targeting Cookies, To measure the effectiveness of the online advertising campaigns we use cookies set by third parties. For example, measuring how many unique browsers have seen a particular advertisement and how many of those subsequently visit our website. The data these third parties collect using cookies does not identify individual users. Each has its own privacy policy which will tell you how they use cookies and data tags.
Enabling/Disabling Cookies
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can choose to accept or reject cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. Please note that not accepting or disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of this website. For more information about managing cookies and how to stop cookies from being installed visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/