Cookie policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone or other device when you visit our website. A cookie file is stored on your device and allows us, or our third party partners (see below) to recognise you and make your visit easier and more useful to you when you revisit our website.

Cookies allow us to recognise visitors to our site, tailor the content on our website to fit the needs of our website’s visitors and helps us improve the user experience. Without certain types of cookies enabled, we can’t guarantee that the website and your experience of it are as we intended it to be.

What are cookies used for?

We use cookies to obtain information about your visits and about the device you use to access our website.

This includes where available, your IP address and pseudonymous identifiers, operating system and browser type and, depending on the cookie, also includes the reporting of statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns.

Which cookies do we set?

We only set cookies if you say yes. When you first visit we ask whether you are happy for us to use Google Analytics, which tells us how many people visit, which pages they read and how they found us. If you accept, Google Analytics sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_<id>, which last for up to two years. If you decline, nothing is set and nothing is sent to Google.

We remember your answer in your browser’s local storage so we don’t ask again on every page. You can change your mind at any time with the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page.