When you visit our web site our web server will store small text files on your computer’s hard drive as “cookies”. These cookies allow our servers to recognise you when you revisit. We use the following two main types of cookies:
Transient/ Per-Session cookies - these cookies may be used to record that you have logged in or out of certain areas of our site during your browsing session. This is to ensure that your experience of our content is as seamless as possible. These transient cookies are not stored when you close your browser.
Persistent/ Permanent cookies - these cookies stay on your machine until they expire or are deleted and many of them have automatic deletion dates to ensure your hard-drive doesn’t get overloaded. These cookies often store and re-enter your login information.
Cookies can be first- or third-party cookies. First-party cookies are owned and created by the website you’re viewing. Third-party cookies are owned and created by an independent company, usually a company providing a service to the owners of the website.
We use first-party cookies to identify and track visitors across our website, their usage of our website and their access preferences. We also use cookies Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use our website, including details of the site where you have come from and the total number of times you have been to our website. We use the information to improve our website and enhance your experience.
Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features of our website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. To enable or disable cookies you will need to follow the instructions of your browser provider.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to our use of cookies.
Once you have left our site we do not use cookies to track your Internet usage and we do not store your personal information in cookies which other people may read or understand. We also do not distribute or sell cookie information.