Cookie Policy

Information About Our Use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This allows us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our website by serving content from a location close to you, and also allows us to improve our site by studying usage patterns.

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 allow them in your web browser. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We may use the following types of cookie:

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. Blocking these cookies will prevent you from using these parts of the site.

Analytical/performance cookies. They 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.

You can find more information about the specific cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Google Analytics

Type: Analytical
Description: This cookie collects information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system, and browser type, and geographic location. We use this information for website optimisation and to monitor our user’s browsing activities and navigation through the site. This information is anonymous and would not allow us to identify any individual user without the assistance of a third party such as an ISP. You are able to opt out of Google Analytics by installing a browser add-in which is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please note that this add-in is provided by Google and we offer no warranty, whether express or implied, as to its suitability or efficacy.

Expiry By Type:

_ga  2 years
_gid  24 hours
_gat  1 minute

Cloudflare

Type: __cfduid
Description: The __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to (i) access all or parts of our site and (ii) use all of our site’s features.