Cookies

Like most websites we use cookies to deliver you the best experience on our website.
If you continue without changing your settings we will assume that you are happy to receive only the essential cookies from this website.

You can read our Cookie Policy further on this page

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website (cookies used for this purpose are as supplied by Google Analytics)

Cookies used by our service providers

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website with your consent.

We use Google Analytics on our website.By means of cookies Google Analytics collects information in order to create statistics reports about website usage without personally identifying individual visitors. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Managing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. However, you can obtain up-to-date information on cookies via these links:

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.