Our Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto ‘terminal equipment’ (eg a computer or smartphone) when the user accesses a website. It allows the website to recognise that user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions.

The rules on cookies are covered by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. The Regulations were revised in 2011, and the ICO is responsible for enforcing these rules.

Recently, the EU General Data Protection Regulations came into effect that give website visitors complete control over which cookies they allow to be used. These regulations also emphasise that website owners must seek users’ consent for the website to place them on their digital device.

Cookies on This Website

First Party Cookies

These are cookies that are deposited onto your device to provide information about the following:

• pages visited
• search engines used
• duration per session
• pages visited per session
• landing pages
• exit pages
• browsers used
• browser versions
• computer operating systems

We use Google Analytics script on each of our pages. This simply allows us to log into the Google Analytics site to see which of our website pages users are looking at. It also allows us to see which links a user has clicked on and how long they spent viewing each page. This will let us see which areas of our content is useful to users and which ones we need to improve on for a more relevant user experience.

PLEASE NOTE

To further protect your identity, our Google Analytics Tracker code on each of our website pages has been adapted to automatically ‘anonymise’ your I.P. address so that you cannot be identified by your digital device.

You can choose to either ‘Accept’ or ‘Disable’ these cookies through our cookie pop up notice each time you visit our site.

Third Party Cookies

On much of our website content, we encourage users to share our content and services with others on a variety of social media sites. Each of our pages have ‘like’ buttons for this purpose. Again, cookies used here are employed by these third party organisations. Please ‘Enable’ or ‘Disable’ these cookies according to your wishes.

Should You Accept Our Cookies or Not?

When you start a new session on our website you should see a cookie notification bar appear across the bottom of the page. It lets you know that this site uses cookies. By law, we are required to notify you of this and give you the choice to ‘Enable’ or ‘Disable’ the cookies of your choice. You can make selections for both first party and third party cookies. Hopefully we have explained how this site uses cookies well enough for you to make your decision. If you select to ‘Disable’ cookies you will still be able to access all the content on the site.