What are cookies?

To make this site simpler, we sometimes place small data files on your computer. These are known as cookies. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our site. Our cookies do not contain any personal information that we can identify you by. All the information is aggregated, and therefore anonymous, and used to see how visitors to our site, as a whole, are using it.

What cookies do we use?

  • Strictly necessary cookies – These cookies are essential for you to browse our website and use its features. These cookies aren’t used to gather information about you or your behaviour.
  • Performance cookies – These cookies collect information about how you use the website, for example which pages you visit and which links you click on. The reason why we use these cookies is to improve the website functionality, so that you can find what you’re looking for more easily for example.
  • Marketing cookies – These cookies track your behaviour on our website, so that we can share this information with other organisations on which we advertise. This ensures that the adverts you see are more relevant to you and your interests.

Opting out of cookies

If you would prefer not to accept cookies, you can change the settings on your browser to block all or some of cookies, but this may lead to a loss in some functionality of the website. You can also clear your cookies cache is your browser settings or your history.

To opt out of targeted ads on Google, please see Google’s help article: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en-GB

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking in your browser, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

More information

For more information, you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ which provides information about how to control and delete cookies.