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Some cookies are essential, so you can move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, some services can’t be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.

What are cookies and how do they work?

Cookies are small bits of text that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Your internet browser sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit the site again, so it can recognise you and can then tailor what you see on the screen.

Some of the cookies we use

Certain cookies are necessary in order for you to use our websites. These are used ‘in-session’ and they are downloaded to your computer each time you visit and then expire when you leave the website. They are not stored on your computer and they don’t contain any personal data. However, you can delete them via your browser if you wish to, but this will restrict the functions that you’re able to carry out on our sites.

The information we obtain through using cookies will not usually contain your personal data. Although we may obtain information about your computer (or electronic device) such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally. In certain circumstances we may collect personal information about you, but only where you voluntarily provide it, for example – by completing an online form.

Analytics

We like to keep track of what pages and links are popular and which ones don’t get used so much to help us keep our sites relevant and up to date. It’s also very useful to be able to identify trends of how people navigate our website and help us provide a more informative or useful website to our customers.

Google Analytics tracking (and most web tracking software) uses cookies in order to provide meaningful reports about site visitors. However, Google Analytics cookies do not collect personal data about website visitors.

Turning off or managing your cookies

If you do not wish to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.

If you wish to disable or delete cookies from your computer or electronic device, the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies can help: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/