Information about our use of cookies

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 our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Cookies are small files that are sent to your PC, mobile phone or tablet when you visit a website. They stay on your device and are sent back to the website they came from when you visit it again. Cookies collect data and send it to us while you use the site. These are written into mobile apps and web pages that you go to on your device.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. We use these cookies to allow you to visit different pages of our website and to navigate with ease around our website. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and some parts of our website will not work if you set your browser to refuse these.
• Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website 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. These cookies provide enhanced functionality such as watching videos or taking part in our surveys. If you do not allow these cookies, then some of our services many not function properly.
• Targeting 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.

Keep in mind

• Multiple users. If more than one person uses your device, the choices set up by other people will apply to you as well unless you change them. For example, if you share a computer with your family, you may see ads based on sites they have visited as well as sites you have visited.
• Cookies with more than one use. Some of our cookies collect data for more than one use. We will only use these cookies for their essential purposes.
• Cookies that are already on your device. Turning off one or more types of cookies will not delete any that have been downloaded in the past.
• Managing cookies choices in your browser. You can turn off or delete cookies in your browser. If you do this, it may affect your use of our site or sites that use similar cookies to our website.

Cookies help you get the most out of our website. However, you may set up your browser to delete or refuse some or all of them or to notify you when you are sent a cookie.

Please remember, if you do delete or refuse the use of some or all of the cookies described above, some features of our website, such as remembering your login details, will not work and your experience may be affected. If you do not adjust your browser settings to delete or refuse cookies, then they will be placed on your browser device when you visit our website. You can adjust your browser settings at any time.

Our cookies capture data which identifies or can be used to identify you as an individual, such as your IP address. Please read our Privacy Notice for more information on how we use your personal information.

We may also use cookies in our marketing and service emails. These are used to track whether an email has been opened and how long it has taken to read it.

More information

For more information on how to control and delete cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

If you have any concerns or complaints about our cookie policy, please use the contact us details on our website.

Last updated: June 2020