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What are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, work more efficiently, and provide information to the owners of the site.

There are different types of cookies – Session, Persistent, First and Third Party cookies. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them please see our 'How to change your cookie settings' section below or visit allaboutcookies or ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/.

How do we use cookies

We use cookies and we’ve listed them below with more details about why we use them.

You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, however some website features or services may not function properly without cookies.

This website uses the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies (Mandatory)

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    Session cookies:

    Our website uses PHP session cookies to help you to navigate it. These cookies expire once you shut the browser window or end the browser session.

     

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  • Analytics cookies (Google Analytics)

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    Third party cookies*:

    These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our website, where our visitors to our website have come from and the pages they have visited. The information obtained does not identify anyone.

     

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    Google Analytics Privacy Policy. You can also click on this link if you want to opt out of Google Analytics.

     

    Cookies

     

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    *These cookies are provided by a third party who could change their cookies in future outside of our control. We will review this policy regularly for any such changes.

  • HotJar

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    These cookies collect information about how visitors interact with the pages on our website. We use the information to compile reports that help us to improve our website. Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized format which does not identify anyone.

     

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How to change your cookie settings

You can control the use of cookies within your browser settings.

Web browsers allow control of most cookies through the browser settings which can be found in the advanced settings area. 

You can manage the cookies stored on your computer, or turn them off completely, through your browser settings. This may affect your browsing experience or even prevent you from using certain services such as those with a secure login, which require cookies to be set in order to work.

All modern browsers will let you change your cookie settings to give you broad control over whether cookies can be set or not. 

Here are a few of the most popular:

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Cookie settings in Chrome

 

This page was last updated on 2 July 2024