What are cookies?
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.
We use cookies on to
- Make our website work as you would expect
- Remember your settings between visits to our site
- Improve the speed and security of the site
- Make continuous improvements to our website
Cookies used on this site are not used to:
- Collect personally identifiable information
- Collect sensitive information
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings in the Internet browser you are using to browse our site are set to accept cookies then we take this, and your continued use of our website, as your permission for our site to use cookies. If you are not happy with the use of cookies on our site then you may disable them from within your browser settings, however, this may impact the functionality of our site and certain things may not work as expected.
For more information about disabling cookies please see the following guides depending on which Internet browser you are using:
Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies
Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196955
Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
Cookies used on this site
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. An example of this might be an embedded YouTube video. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functionality of the services offered by the third parties.
We also use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our site, which pages are visited the most, which technology is being used to access our site (e.g. whether the site is being browsed from a Mac of Windows PC and which browser is being used) and how long people spend on our site. These statistics aid in the continuous improvement of our site. These analytics are completely anonymous and no personally identifiable information is recorded.
It may be that you are concerned cookies related to so called spyware. In this instance, rather than disabling cookies in your browser (which would limit functionality), it may be preferable to install some anti-spyware software which would automatically block or delete cookies that may be considered a threat or invasive.