Cookie Policy
 

What are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu for a video about cookies visit www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience.

How Do Cookies Help?

  • They make our website work as you’d expect
  • They improve the speed & security of the website
  • They continuously improve our website for you

Our Cookies Don’t…

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Granting Us Permission To Use Cookies

If the settings on your web browser are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are happy with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our website may not function as you would expect.

Turning Off Cookies:

If you wish to turn Cookies off, you can do so by amending your browser settings. However, by turning them off you may limit the functionality of ours and every other website you visit, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

Here are links to information about cookie settings relating to the most commonly used browsers:

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari web
Cookie settings in iOS

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

Our policy is to keep the use of cookies to a minimum, using them only where they provide a clear benefit in terms of user experience or useful anonymous user patterns.

You can opt-in and opt-out of all cookies, except strictly necessary cookies by clicking on the buttons below (changes apply after you navigate to a next page):

Allow only necessary cookies.
Allow all cookies.

Cookies used on this website

We use a range of Cookies on this website to improve its performance and provide you with a better experience. Some of these cookies as classed as ‘Third Party Cookies’ and have been placed on our website by social media plug in’s. We advise you to read these third-party cookie policies.

We have categorised the cookies used on the website using the ICC UK Cookie guide, please see below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

 
Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.