Cookie Policy

Cookies are used on our site to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on our website.

Some cookies are essential so that you can navigate the website and use its features. Without these cookies, some services you’ve asked for can’t be provided. These cookies don’t gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.

What are cookies and how do they work?

Cookies are small bits of text that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Your browser sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit the site again, so it can recognise you and tailor what you see on the screen.

Some of the cookies we use

Certain cookies are essential for using our websites. These are used ‘in-session’ each time you visit and expire when you leave the site. They are not stored on your computer and do not contain any personal data. However, you can delete them through your browser if you wish, but this will limit the functions available on our sites.

Session cookies

These enable you to carry out some essential functions on our sites, such as maintaining log-in details for the session or a transaction. They also help by minimising the need to transfer information across the internet. They are not stored on your computer, and they expire when you terminate your browser session or log out of certain areas.

Secure cookie

A secure cookie is only utilised when a browser visits a server via HTTPS, ensuring the cookie remains encrypted during transmission from client to server. This reduces the risk of the cookie being exposed to theft through eavesdropping.

Persistent cookies

These are used to persist a user’s preference across, e.g., setting items such as the open status of the carousel, and remain until the expiry date and time set by the web server (or otherwise manually deleted by the user).

Analytics

We like to keep track of which pages and links are popular and which ones are less used to help us keep our sites relevant and current. It’s also very helpful to identify trends in how people navigate (find their way through) our sites and assist us in providing a more user-friendly experience.

Third-party cookies

Google Analytics tracking (and most web tracking software) uses cookies to generate meaningful reports about site visitors. However, Google Analytics cookies do not gather personal data about website visitors.

Managing your cookies

You’ll find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org, which provides details on how to delete cookies from your computer. For guidance on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, please consult your handset manual.