- We use cookies to track your use of
our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and
track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This
helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or
services in response to what you might need or want.
Cookies are either:
- Session cookies:
these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are
automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store
an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having
to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from
your computer; or
- Persistent cookies:
a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains
there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the
website that created it when you visit that website again. We use
persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies:
These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website
effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service, and
therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services
available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not
gather information about you that could be used for marketing or
remembering where you have been on the internet.
- Performance cookies:
These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our
website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic
sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
- Functionality cookies:
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and
provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you
with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be
used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or
commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually
anonymised.
Please note that third parties who
advertise on our website (including, for example, advertising networks
and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services)
may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are
likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies