Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

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A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

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We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

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Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or some parts of our site.

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Please note that third parties (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.

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Cookies we collect

We use the following cookies:

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Strictly necessary cookies - These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.

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Analytical/performance cookies - They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

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Functionality cookies - These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you.

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Targeting cookies - These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.

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You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

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_utma - This Google Analytics cookie which keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was and when their last visit occurred. We retain this data for two years.

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_utmb - This Google Analytics cookie helps calculate how long a visit takes by collecting a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site. We retain this data for 30 minutes.

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_utmc - This Google Analytics cookie helps calculate how long a visit takes by collecting a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site. It stays for 30 minutes for another page view to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires. We retain this data until the end of the browsing session.

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_utmt - This Google Analytics cookie is used to throttle the request rate for the service, limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. We retain this data for 10 minutes.

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_utmv - This Google Analytics cookies classifies each visitor to the site. This assists with segmentation and data experimentation We retain this data indefinitely.

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_utmz - This Google Analytics cookie keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from. We use this data until the end of the session.