Cookie Policy
Cookies are used on our site to
ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you
continue without changing your settings, we???ll assume that you are happy
to receive all cookies on our website.
Some cookies are essential so you
can move around the website and use its features. Without these
cookies, some services you???ve asked for can???t be provided. These cookies
don???t gather information about you that could be used for marketing or
remembering where you???ve been on the internet.
What are cookies and how do they work?
Cookies are small bits of text
that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a
website. Your browser sends these cookies back to the website every time
you visit the site again, so it can recognise you and can then tailor
what you see on the screen.
Some of the cookies we use
Certain cookies are necessary in
order for you to use our websites. These are used ???in-session??? each time
you visit and then expire when you leave the site. They???re not stored
on your computer and they don???t contain any personal data. However, you
can delete them via your browser if you wish to, but this will restrict
the functions that you???re able to carry out on our sites.
- Session cookies
These enable you to carry out
some essential functions on our sites, such as maintaining log in
details for the session or a transaction. They also help by minimising
the need to transfer information across the internet. They are not
stored on your computer and they expire when you terminate your browser
session or logout of certain areas.
- Secure cookie
A secure cookie is only used when
a browser is visiting a server via HTTPS, ensuring that the cookie is
always encrypted when transmitting from client to server. This makes the
cookie less likely to be exposed to cookie theft via
eavesdropping.
- Persistent cookies
These are used to persist a
user???s preference across e.g. setting items such as the open status of
the carousel, and remain until the expiry date and time set by the web
server (or otherwise manually deleted by the user).
- Analytics
We like to keep track of what
pages and links are popular and which ones don???t get used so much to
help us keep our sites relevant and up to date. It???s also very useful to
be able to identify trends of how people navigate (find their way
through) our sites and help us provide a more friendly solution.
- Third-party cookie
Google Analytics tracking (and
most web tracking software) uses cookies in order to provide meaningful
reports about site visitors. However, Google Analytics cookies do not
collect personal data about website visitors.
Managing your cookies
You???ll find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org,
which gives details on how to delete cookies from your computer. For
information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, please see
your handset manual.