Cookies In Use on This Site

Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Remembering your search settings
  • Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
  • Remembering your preferences such as colours, text size and layout

LOCALiq

We work alongside our advertising partners LOCALiQ. They use cookies and similar tools to collect information from our website visitors to analyse website usage and to market their products and services to you. Such information includes the referrer URL, browser type, IP address, and date, time and duration of the visit. They also share information about your use of our site with our social media, marketing and analytics partners, who may combine it with other information you’ve provided to them or they’ve collected from your use of their services. In case you do not wish to give your consent, you may nonetheless use this website without restriction. You can revoke your consent at any time. Further information may be found here and on the privacy policy on this website.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called analytics programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use:

  • Google Analytics – click here for an overview of privacy at Google.

Turning Cookies Off

Our cookie policy tells you what sort of cookies we use on our site and why we use them, but if you still don’t feel comfortable with allowing them on your computer you can follow these simple steps to disable them.

How to turn cookies off in the most popular browsers:

Edge
Click Settings in the menu that appears.
Under settings select ‘Privacy and Security’.
Under cookies in the drop down select ‘Block all cookies’.

Google Chrome
Click on the spanner icon in the browser’s toolbar.
Choose Settings.
Click ‘Show advanced settings’.
In the ‘Privacy’ section, click ‘Content settings’.
To disable cookies, in the ‘Cookies’ section, pick ‘Block sites from setting any data’.

Internet Explorer
Click ‘Tools’ and choose ‘Internet Options’ from the menu that appears.
In the pop-up screen click on the ‘Privacy’ tab.
In the settings section click on the ‘Advanced’ button.
In the Advanced Privacy Settings pop-up click on the checkbox for ‘Override automatic cookie handling’.
Select the block option for both first-party and third-party cookies and click ‘OK’.

Mozilla Firefox
Click on ‘Tools’ at the browser menu and choose ‘Options’.
Choose the Privacy panel.
To disable cookies: Uncheck ‘Accept cookies for sites’.

Opera
Click on ‘Setting’ at the browser menu and choose ‘Settings’.
Choose ‘Quick Preferences’.
To disable cookies: uncheck ‘Enable Cookies’.

Safari
Click on ‘Safari’ at the menu bar and select the ‘Preferences’ option.
Click on ‘Security’.
To disable cookies, in the ‘Accept cookies’ section choose ‘Never’.

All other browsers 
Please use the inbuilt ‘Help’ function for your chosen browser to find out how to disable cookies.

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so-called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.