Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to improve our website, to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and to show you adverts that are relevant to you, based on your browsing habits, to personalise your user experience. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
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 agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use both persistent cookies (which expire on a specified date) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser).
The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on definitions given in the ICC UK Cookie Guide. We use the following cookies:
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie(s) | Purpose |
| _ga _gid _gat_UA-[NUMBER] |
Google Analytics These cookies are used to collect information about how you use our website for statistical and performance analysis. These cookies do not store or collect any personal details about you. Click here for more information about how Google Analytics uses cookies. |
| cookieconsent_status | Our cookie banner This cookie records whether you have clicked on our cookie banner, either to dismiss it or to accept the use of cookies, so that we can remember your preference when you next visit our website. |
| _cfduid | This cookie is used by the website for the purpose of applying unique security settings where you use a shared IP address. This does not store any personal details about you. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services such as Google Analytics, or advertising services and vendors) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
[We may work with various advertising partners to deliver targeted adverts that are relevant to you based on your browsing habits or the content of our website and other websites you visit. When adverts are loading, you may receive cookies from a wide range of external domains in our advertising network. Whilst you can choose whether or not to accept these cookies by clicking on your browser settings. We don’t have control over the cookies that sites in our network place when adverts are displayed in your browser. Third parties may use both persistent cookies (of varying persistence) and session cookies.
We use Google AdSense to deliver targeted adverts, which may place third party cookies (these may come from google.com or doubleclick.net or various advertising partners) in connection with targeted (and non-targeted) adverts. Click here for further information about how AdSense uses cookies.]
We understand that not everyone wants to see targeted adverts or contribute to statistics on website use, so we have made it easy for you to change your cookie preferences.
You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on your browser settings OR you can turn off targeted adverts by clicking “Decline” on our cookie banner. You will still see adverts on our website, but they will not be personalised to your interests.
Please bear in mind that if you don’t allow us to use certain cookies, it may prevent you from accessing parts of our website or result in a loss of functionality which degrades your experience of our website.
You can also configure cookie settings in your web browser to prevent all cookies (or just third party cookies) from being placed on or read from your device. You can find out more about how to do this at the following links:
You 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 access all or parts of our website.
There’s a lot of good information about cookies available online. For more information about cookies generally, visit allaboutcookies.org.
Contact us if you have any questions about how we use cookies or about your privacy.