Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data that are sent to your computer / mobile device and stored by your browser when you visit a website. When you visit a site that uses cookies for the first time a cookie is downloaded to your computer / mobile device, which is then retrieved by the website during and on your next visit.

Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work correctly, or to work more efficiently. Our site relies on cookies to optimise user experience by tracking website traffic and for features and services to function properly.

Types of cookies

Session Cookies

Session cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer / mobile device until your browser is closed or you leave the website.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies stay on your computer / mobile device after you have left the website and closed the browser. Persistent cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor, which allows us to monitor web traffic to the website.

How we use cookies

We use traffic logging cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to our website visitors needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies when visiting websites but most web browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. You can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.

If your web browser is set to refuse cookies from our website this may affect your ability to use certain parts of our site.

You can find more information about cookie management by visiting the links below for your particular browser.

Chrome
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari
Opera

Cookies we use

Cookie Name Cookie Description
_ga
Google Analytics – Unique ID used to distinguish users
_gid
Google Analytics – Unique ID used to distinguish users
_gat
Google Analytics – Used to throttle request rate.