Cookie Policy
Page last updated: June 2024
Use of cookies
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our Site. By continuing to browse the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. In this policy, the term 'cookie' refers to cookies and similar technologies such as tracking pixels.
A "cookie" is a piece of information that is stored on your computer, tablet or phone to recognise your browser and which records how you have used a website. This means that when you go back to that website, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about your last visit. You can normally alter the settings of your browser to prevent it from accepting cookies.
How do we use cookies?
We may use cookies to improve the way the Site works and to monitor how people use our Site. This helps us to understand how people use our Site so we can develop and improve the design, layout and function of the Site. The cookies we use are explained below:
Necessary
Necessary cookies are essential for our website to function properly. Without these cookies, certain services and functionalities on the website such as page navigation and making payments cannot be provided. These types of cookies can’t be turned off but you can control them in your browser settings.
Preferences
Preference cookies enable our website to remember information that changes the way it behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Statistics
Statistic cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. This allows us to show more personalised adverts and measure your interactions with them.
Unclassified
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
Third Party Cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services, including those set out below in this Privacy Notice) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. 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 use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site.
Google Analytics
The Site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how users use the Site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on Site activity for operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Google lists the cookies used by their analytics service on the following web page:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘CO’ icon displayed on the bottom left of the screen. You can then adjust the sliders and your changes will be automatically saved. Alternatively, some web browsers allow some control of most cookies through their browser settings, To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
More Information
For more information generally on cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s web page on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies.