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
cookiebot
We work alongside Cookiebot, using cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on the Cookiebot website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in the Cookiebot Privacy Policy.
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.
