What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies we use

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use Google Analytics on our sites for anonymous reporting of site usage. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behaviour on our website, please use this link…
• First party cookies. These are set by the website that you are visiting and can only be read by that website.
• Third party cookies. These are set by an organisation other than the owner of the website. This might be for the purposes of website measurement or being able to watch a video on the site (e.g. Youtube).

Cookies last for different lengths of time depending on what they are used for.

• Session cookies are temporary cookies and are only stored until you leave the website or when you close your web browser.
• Persistent cookies last for a fixed period of time, defined within the cookie, and allow the website to recognise the device again when the user returns to that website on that device.

How do I turn cookies off?
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website:
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.
Useful links
The following links are useful for more reading about cookies and their use:
Microsoft Cookies guide
All About Cookies
The following links are useful for more reading on legal and privacy matters:
Data Protection Act 1998
The Information Commissioner’s Office
Contacting us
If there are any questions regarding this Cookie policy you may contact us here.