WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Our website uses cookies for collecting non-personal user information from the site. A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie enables us to anonymously track your journey and identify the areas of the website that are visited most frequently.

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie (i.e. when it will expire) and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

Cookies are stored in the cookie directory of your hard drive, and do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. If you choose not to accept the cookie, this will not affect your access to the majority of facilities available on our website.

Although your browser may be set up to allow the creation of cookies, you can specify that you be prompted before a site puts a cookie on your hard disk, so that you can decide whether to allow or disallow the cookie. Alternatively, you can set your computer not to accept any cookie.

Like most websites, we use analytics software called Google Analytics. This software gathers anonymous data relating to how people are using this site and then provide us with visitor statistics, details of page views etc. We feel that this information is vital to us, helping us to make the site as easy to use and useful as possible. For more information on how Google Analytics processes this information, visit www.google.com/analytics.

DISABLING/ENABLING COOKIES

You can accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. For example, if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer:

Open ‘Windows Explorer’

Click on the ‘Search’ button on the tool bar

Type “cookie” into the search box for ‘Folders and Files’

Select ‘My Computer’ in the ‘Look In’ box

Click ‘Search Now’

Double click on the folders that are found

‘Select’ any cookie file

Hit the ‘Delete’ button on your keyboard

If you are not using Microsoft Windows Explorer, then you should select “cookies” in the “Help” function for information on where to find your cookie folder.