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 allows us to improve our site therefore it is recommended that you enable all cookies.

 

What are 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.

 

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 e-commerce or payment facilities.
  • 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.
  • Functionality 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 advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
  • This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

 

Third Party Cookies

Please note that some third-parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third-parties 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. To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies or manage the use of these types of cookies please see your browser’s help section for a guide of how to amend or turn off cookies.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn,  will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

 

Disabling cookies

You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by amending your browser settings, please see your browser’s help section for a guide of how to amend or turn off 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 website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after two years.