Cookie Policy
We use cookies on our website to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with the best possible experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are: “small text files placed on your device when you visit our site and are used to make the users experience more efficient.”
We are able to store cookies on your computer where they are necessary for the operation of the site however, for non-essential cookies we need your permission.
Our cookies help us to:
- Make our website work smoothly as you would expect,
- Save you having to log in every time you visit the site,
- Remember your settings during and between visits,
- Offer you content,
- Improve the speed and security of the site,
- Allow you to share pages easily across social media networks,
- Continuously improve our website,
- Make our marketing more efficient.
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission),
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission),
- Pass data to advertising networks,
- Pay sales commissions,
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
How we use cookies
They are used by us to help our website users navigate our website efficiently and like most websites we use cookies to capture certain information about our site’s users.
When you visit our website we set Google Analytics cookies which help measure the number of visitors to the site, see how they navigate and which areas they access. We use this information to help us to develop new content and to improve the way the website works.
Other third party sites which are linked to and can be accessed from our website such as You Tube, Twitter and LinkedIn also set a variety of 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 | Name | Purpose |
| Google Analytics | _ga
_gat |
These cookies are used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. They are included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
These cookies are set by default to expire after 2 years. |
| CMSCookieLevel | This cookie specifies which cookies you have enabled. | |
| CMSPreferredUICulture | This cookie stores your preferred content culture.
This cookie expires when you close your browser. |
GRANTING US PERMISSION TO USE COOKIES
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, having also accepted the use of cookies via the banner on our website, to mean that you are consenting to this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our website you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
TURNING COOKIES OFF
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our and a large proportion of other websites around the world as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. 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.
If you continue to use our site and use the videos and social media functionality, we will take that as your consent to the relevant cookies being set on your computer or mobile device.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will only be held for as long as necessary for their purpose.
For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
If you want to prevent Google Analytics cookies being set, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On.