COOKIE POLICY
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites and sometimes by emails.
They provide useful information to organisations, which helps to make your visits to their
websites more effective and efficient. We use cookies to ensure that we are able to
understand how you use our website and to ensure that we can make improvements to our
websites. Cookies do not contain personal or confidential information about you.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
THE TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE
We use three types of cookies on our website:
• Session cookies that are deleted after each visit
• Persistent/tracking cookies that remain in place across multiple visits to our websites
• Third party cookies that are used by other parties, for example Google Analytics
Session cookies and persistent cookies are necessary in order for you to use our website. These cookies can be deleted via your browser, but this will restrict the functions that youare able to carry out on our websites. For more information on how to disable cookies in
your browser please see the Information Commissioner’s Office website. (http://www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/)
Session cookies expire when you leave the website and are not stored on your computer and do not contain any personal data.
Persistent cookies last beyond your visit to our website. We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a tracking cookie which enables us to track how popular a site is and to record visitor trends over time. The cookie does not contain any personal data but it does contact your computer’s IP address to determine where in the world you are accessing the website from and to track your page visits within the site.
OPTIONAL COOKIES
These cookies are usually supplied by business partners and help us to filter out information which is not relevant to you.
ACCEPTING / BLOCKING COOKIES
You can accept or block any cookies from any website through your browser settings. For
more information on how to disable cookies in your browser please see the Information
Commissioner’s Office website. (http://www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/).
Please note that if you share your computer, accepting or blocking the use of cookies will
affect all users of that computer.
COOKIES AND DEMOGRAPHICS
We may use data from Google’s interest-based advertising or third party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information about cookies visit the Information Commissioners website www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookiesThis statement can be condensed by only displaying the questions and expanding the text to show the answer when the customer clicks on that question.