Cookie Policy

General Information about cookies

Cookies are text files placed on the device you use to access the internet by websites.  Cookies record small amounts of information which can be used to help improve and customise websites by allowing website operators to identify visitors to the site, customise content and remember user preferences. Cookies can also be used to provide statistical information about how a website is being used by its visitors and to display targeted advertising based on a user’s browsing history.  

You can change your browser settings to reject cookies or prompt you before accepting them, however some sites and services may not operate properly if cookies are disabled.

For more information about cookies including how to set your browser to reject cookies please click here.

Information about our use of cookies

We use the Google Analytics service to collect information about how visitors use our site.  This involves cookies being used to collect non-personally identifiable information regarding the number of visitors to our site, the pages on our site they have visited and the URL via which they arrived at our site.  The Google Analytics privacy policy is available here.

Further information about Google Analytic’s use of cookies including a list of the cookies it uses is available here.

We use the AddThis share buttons on our website to allow visitors to easily share our content through social media services such as Twitter and Facebook. AddThis sets a number of cookies on your machine whenever you visit a page featuring the AddThis share buttons. 

Due to the way that these buttons are integrated into our site, these cookies are also set on certain pages where the buttons are not immediately visible, including our homepage.  AddThis uses cookies to provide the AddThis sharing service and to customise it to make it easier to use.  By default, AddThis may also use non-personally identifiable information which it collects from websites using the AddThis service to deliver targeted advertising. 

You can opt-out from this behaviour via the following link. 

For further information regarding AddThis's privacy policy, please visit the the following address http://www.addthis.com/privacy. 

We use a "session cookie" (a cookie which is deleted at the end of each browsing session) to ensure that you are recognised when moving from page to page within our site and so that any information you have entered can be remembered.  

You can block the use of cookies by our site by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Disabling cookies should not generally impact upon the browsing experience on our website, but we cannot guarantee that all features of our website will function with cookies disabled.