What are cookies?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier, which is sent to your computer or mobile device browser from a website’s server and is stored on your device’s hard drive.

 

Why do we use cookies?

To provide you with a functional and interactive website we need feedback, and cookies play a large part in this. Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse use of our sites and help us to provide a better user experience. 

 

Google Analytics

We use "Google Analytics" to collect this information.  Google Analytics is a web analysis tool that helps us understand how visitors engage with our website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site and what pages they visit when they do so. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site.

 

Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information.

 

Google Analytics uses only first party cookies. This means that the cookies are linked to this specific website domain, and will only be used for statistical analysis related to your browsing behaviour on this specific website. According to Google, the data collected cannot be altered or retrieved by services from other domains.

 

Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.

 

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

 

For more information on Google Analytics please visit www.google.com/analytics.

 

Opt out of cookies

If you choose, you can opt out by turning off cookies in the preference settings in your web browser. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.