Cookie policy

We and our business partners collect information about your use of our website through cookies. Cookies are information files stored on your computer that help websites remember who you are and information about your visit. Cookies can help to display the information on a website in a way that matches your interests. Most major websites use cookies. We use two types of cookie (or similar technology) on our website.

The first type is ‘session-based’. This means that it is only saved on your hard disk for the time you are using our website. We use this type of cookie purely to assist your journey through our website. Such use is essential to ensure our website operates effectively.

The second type is ‘persistent’. These stay on your hard disk for a certain time period after you have navigated away from our website. We only use one category of persistent cookie and this is for the following purpose:

Google Analytics – We use Google’s analytics service to help us understand the number of different people coming to our website, rather than the total number of times the site is used. Without this cookie, if you visited the site once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. This cookie is saved on your computer by Google. You can find information about the cookie and how to disable it at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

We do not store any of your personal information in any of our cookies. We only use cookies that are necessary to provide you with services you have requested or that analyse the effectiveness of our website and to help us make our website better for all our users.

If you do not want a website to create a cookie on your computer, most web browsers provide the option to disable them. However, our website may not work properly if you reject our cookies.

If you want to know more about how cookies work and how to manage or delete them, visit the World Wide Web Consortium's website or the All About Cookies website.

We may update this policy from time to time so you may want to check it each time you visit our website. We last changed this policy on 12 April 2012.