OUR COOKIE POLICY
What Are Cookies And How Do They Benefit You?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites.
Cookies are not actual programs or software. When you visit a website it stores a snippet of text from your visit; the next time you visit, this text is retrieved by the website and they recognise you. This can be used differently depending on the actual website visited. Cookies allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a "memory" for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately. Cookies on our website do NOT store any personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, email addresses or phone numbers.
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What are Cookies? Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Remember your settings during visits
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information - we will always ask for your express permission if we ever do collect this information.
What information is kept by the cookie?
A cookie will typically hold:
- The name of the website that it has come from
- How long the cookie will stay on your computer or phone
- A value – usually a randomly generated unique number
How long do cookies stay on my computer?
- Session cookies – these only last until you close your browser. They are not stored on your hard drive. They are usually used to track the pages that you visit so that information can be customised for you for that visit.
- Persistent cookies – these are stored on your hard drive until you delete them or they reach their expiry date. These may, for example, be used to remember your preferences when you use the site.
Granting Us Permission To Use Cookies If the settings on the software you are using to view this website (i.e. browser e.g. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc) are set up to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you accept our use of cookies. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can disable cookies through ‘Internet Options’ on your browser menu at any time, however please be aware that doing so will probably mean that our site may not work as well as you would expect.
Our use of cookies falls into one category:
More about Our Cookies
Website Function Cookies such as session or preference cookies
We use cookies to make our website function including:
- Holding information once you’ve logged in to save you having to re-login each time you visit a different page during your session
- Once you log off or close the browser the session cookie will be removed