Website cookies and how we use them
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 this site, you are agreeing to our use of
cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on
your browser or the hard drive of your computer or mobile phone if
you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your
computer's hard drive.
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.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They
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.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to
recognise you when you return to the website and record that you
are a user of our website, or whether your web browser has
Javascript enabled.
- 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.
You can also find more information about the individual cookies
we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table
below.
Disabling cookies
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that
allows you to refuse the settings 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
our site.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 5
years.
Web browsers may allow some control of most cookies through the
browser settings. You can find out more about cookies, including
how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete
them at www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
For information on how to do this on a mobile phone, please refer
to the handset instructions.
Third Party cookies
Please note that third parties (including for example,
advertising networks and providers of external services like web
traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have
no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance
cookies or targeting cookies.