What is a Cookie?
Cookies are created when a user's browser loads a particular website. The website sends information to the browser which then creates a text file. Every time the user goes back to the same website, cookies helps to improve user experience of the website by remembering your last pages visited and your search preferences and settings.
Cookies also 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.
What Cookies do we use?
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These Cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. This cookie helps you complete areas of the site without having to re-enter information already provided.
Performance Cookies
These Cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.
Functional Cookies
These Cookies enable the website to remember certain choices you have made, so upon returning to the website you can be provided with personalised settings.
Restricting or deleting cookies
By default all cookies are active on this web site for the best user experience. Please note that by turning off cookies in your browser you will affect the core functionality of the website and the social sharing options will not be available.
However, if you wish to deactivate or delete selected cookies your web browser may provide options to do this via the Help menu option.
For a useful resource on the subject of cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which provides good general advice on how you can manage cookies on your computer.
If you would like to opt out of Google analytics tracking for all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.