Cookies Notice
What are cookies?
Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer, mobile phone or tablet. These are known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
Cookies are used to improve services for you by:
enabling a service to recognise your computer so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
recognising and counting 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
What do cookies look like?
If you click on a cookie you'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the website server that gave you the cookie.
Measuring website usage
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal details such as your name or address. We cannot identify who you are.
We do not allow Google to use or share any information we collect with other third parties.
If you don't want Google Analytics to use information about you for the purposes of measuring website usage you can opt out:
How to manage your cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies, you can do this through your browser settings. Your browser is the way you access the internet for example Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how you can restrict or block cookies.
For help locating cookies on your device and for information on how to restrict or block cookies on the browser of your mobile phone you can follow the links below:
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the way our website works for you.
Cookies on social networking websites
We have links on our website to social networking websites (for example Twitter and Facebook). These websites may place cookies on your computer.
The social networking sites that our website links to are third party sites and we does not have any control over the way that these sites use your data. You should read their respective privacy policies carefully to find out what happens to any data that is collected when you use these services and to consider whether you want to opt out.
Twitter is a social networking service. Users send short updates, or mini-blogs (known as tweets), that are no more than 140 characters long. You can collect followers and follow other users. You can also tag words and search tags to find out what other people are talking about.
Facebook is a social networking website that has millions of users worldwide. You register and create a profile. You can then add friends to your profile and exchange information with friends. Facebook also allows people to start groups and fan pages as well as bookmarking other web pages.
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc.
The app allows users to upload photos and videos to the service, which can be edited with various filters, and organised with tags and location information. An account's posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, and view trending content. Users can like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a feed.
Read the Instagram privacy policy