Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer
by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make
websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide
information to the owners of the site.
Cookies cannot carry viruses or otherwise damage your PC but the
information they contain will be held on your computer:
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Session cookies will be stored on your
computer until you close your browser, when they are
deleted
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Persistent cookies will be stored on your
computer until they reach a specified expiry date or are
manually deleted
Most browsers will allow you to manage your cookies by changing
your browser settings.
What types of Cookies do we use?
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are needed to make the website work by recording
information about the page you are looking at.
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors
use our site, which we use to help improve it. The cookies
collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of
visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and
the pages they visited.
Cookie acceptance
This cookie is used to record if you have accepted the use of
cookies on this website.
Registration & Login Cookies
If you register
and/or login a
session cookie will be set to store a code by which we can
recognise you. This contains non-personal information which we use
to identify you.
If you tick the "Remember me next time" box when you login, a
persistent cookie will be set to save you having to log in
when you next visit the website.
Third Party Cookies
These cookies are set on your computer by external websites
whose services are used on this site (for example, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc). You should be aware that
some of these sites may use cookies to collect information about
what you are doing all around the internet, including on this
website.
You should check the respective policies of each of these sites
to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to
opt out, or delete, such information.
How to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable
information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or
block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any
other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The
'Help' function within your browser should tell you how.
For more information on cookies, please visit the Information Commissioner's Office website.