Cookie policy
We use cookies to give you a better experience
Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. By law, website operators are required to ask for a website user’s permission when placing certain kinds of cookie on their devices for the first time.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your device computer’s hard drive when you visit a website. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
What types of cookies do we use?
Category 1 cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our websites and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the websites. We use these types of cookies. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. Your consent is not required for the delivery of those cookies which are strictly necessary to provide services requested by you.
Category 2 cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages and used to improve how a website works. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. Information collected us aggregated and anonymous. Web analytics that use cookies to gather data to enhance the performance of a
website fall into this category. We use these types of cookies. By using our website and online services you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Category 3 cookies allow our websites to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced and personalised features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video. The information these cookies collect is generally anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. We use these types of cookies. By using our websites these you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Category 4 cookies are used to personalised adverts. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Targeting or advertising cookies will often be linked to site functionality provided by other organisations. We do not use these cookies on our website.
Definitions used above are consistent with those supplied by the International Chamber of Commerce ‘ICC UK Cookie Guide’ April 2012.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
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 Category 1 Cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our websites.
For information on how to delete cookies, please refer to: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies