Cookies
Our website uses cookies to identify you from other users of the site. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when visiting our website and allows us to improve its accessibility, content, and presentation. We are required to ensure that you understand what cookies are used for and why we want to use them and that you provide appropriate consent based on your choices.
Cookies are small generally text files which are downloaded by your device when you visit any website. They are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that particular cookie.
Cookies come in 4 categories:
1. Necessary
These are essential and required in order to enable you to access the website and use its features. Consent is not required for these cookies.
2. Performance
This type of cookie collects information about how visitors use the website, what pages they visit most often, if they receive error messages. The information that these cookies collect is anonymous as the information is aggregated into statistics. Web analytics that use cookies to gather data to enhance the performance of a website fall into this category. By using our online services, you agree to us processing the data gathered from these cookies.
3. Functionality
The choices that you make such as user name, language, or the region that you are in are retained by these cookies. They may also remember any customisation that you have made to your view of the website, such as text size. They can also be used to allow you to access a video or embedded content. By using our online services, you agree to us processing the data gathered from these cookies.
4. Targeting or advertising cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential Category 1 Cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. For information on how to delete cookies, please refer to: use https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies