Cookie Policy

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. This policy explains what cookies are, the different types of cookies we use, and how they will affect your experience on this website.

About Cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Typically, a cookie records our preferences when using a particular site. It recognises you when you navigate different pages of the website or return to the website.

We use the following cookies:

  • 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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.
  • Functional 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 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 for this purpose.
  • Social media cookies. These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.

Third Party Cookies

Third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services, such as Google Analytics. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies and may transfer, store or process your data in a location outside the UK or European Economic Area. If you share a link to our website on social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don’t control these cookies, so please check these third party websites for more information on how to manage these cookies.