COOKIE POLICY

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or other internet-enabled device when you visit a website, provided you consent to their use. Cookies allow a website to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit, such as your preferences or previous actions.

Some cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser (session cookies), while others remain stored on your device for a longer period or until you delete them (persistent cookies).

Cookies used on this website

The specific cookies used on this website may change from time to time. However, they generally fall into the following categories:

Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function correctly. They enable core functionality such as accessing secure areas of the site, using online forms, or completing transactions. Without these cookies, the website cannot operate properly.

Analytical and performance cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website by collecting information such as the number of visitors, which pages are visited most often, and how users navigate through the site. This information allows us to improve the performance and usability of our website.

Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as your preferred language or region, and provide enhanced, more personalised features when you return to the site.

Targeting and advertising cookies
These cookies track your visit to our website, including the pages you have viewed and the links you have followed. These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests.They are also used to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. We may also share this information with third parties such as our advertising partners to serve you with advertisements elsewhere on on the internet.

Managing and deleting cookies

You can choose to accept or reject cookies by adjusting your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete existing cookies, or receive a notification when a website attempts to place a cookie on your device. Guidance on how to manage these settings can usually be found within your browser’s “Help” section.

You may also find useful information at www.aboutcookies.org, which provides detailed guidance on managing and deleting cookies across a wide range of browsers.

Please note that disabling or restricting cookies may affect the functionality of this website and could prevent certain features from working as intended.

If you wish to view the contents of a cookie, you can do so through your browser settings. Cookies typically contain a short string of letters and numbers that act as an identifier, which can only be accessed by the server that issued the cookie.

For information on managing cookies on mobile devices, please consult the user manual or support resources for your device.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use cookies supplied by carefully selected third-party services. These cookies help us analyse website usage and support our marketing activity. Details of the key third-party cookies you may encounter while using our website are set out below.

We use Google Analytics, a widely used website analytics service, to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. Google Analytics cookies collect information such as the pages you visit, how long you remain on the site, and how you arrived at the website. This information helps us assess website performance and make improvements to enhance the user experience.

We may also use Google Ads cookies as part of our online advertising and remarketing activity. These cookies allow us to display advertisements that are more relevant to users based on their previous interactions with our website. They may also be used to limit how often you see an advert and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Our marketing controls the duration and, to some extent, the frequency of these advertisements, but does not control the data collected by Google directly.

If you would like to opt out of Google’s personalised advertising and remarketing, you can manage your preferences via Google’s ad settings page:
https://www.google.com/settings/ads