Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other visitors to our website.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file made of letters and numbers that, if you agree to them, is placed on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Our website therefore recognises you as an individual because of cookies.

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. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from receiving the full functionality on our website.

Types of cookies we use

• Strictly necessary cookies – these cookies are essential for you to move around our website and they cannot be turned off
• Tracking cookies – these cookies allow us to count visits, traffic sources and to produce analytics on our website. They may be set by us or by a third party, such as Google analytics. You can opt to switch these off but some features on our website may not work in the intended manner if you do so.
• Functionality cookies – these cookies remember choices you make on our website and ways in which you interact with our pages. They enhance your browsing experience by personalising the website or customisable pages. They may be set by us or a third party. You can opt to switch these cookies off but some features on our website may not work in the intended manner if you do so.
• Targeting and advertising cookies – these cookies are used to display relevant advertising to you on other websites and social media platforms. They help us measure the effectiveness of our digital campaigns and show us what actions were taken by web visitors. Some of these cookies collect information about your browsing habits online to build a profile of you in order to tailor advertising. These cookies may be set by us or a third party. You can opt to switch these cookies off.

How to manage cookies

You can change your cookies preferences on our website by visiting the preference centre and adjusting the sliders to ‘On/Off’ and clicking ‘Save Settings’. You can also change your cookie settings in your web browser of choice – this is normally in the ‘Settings’ or ‘Help’ menu on the browser.