Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to improve your online experience.By using our website, you agree to this policy and you consent to our use of cookies in line with the terms below. You can find out more about the cookies we use, why we use them and how to control them in this notice.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website. Cookies do a number of useful things, such as:

Allowing our website to work properly
Helping to keep our website secure
Helping us understand how people use our pages so we can improve them
Making the site easier to use by remembering information you have entered
Improving your experience by showing content and adverts that may be more relevant to you

Cookies do not run programs or harm your device.

To find out more information about cookies in general, you can visit AboutCookies.org.

What types of cookies do we use?

We use a mix of first-party cookies (set by our site) and third-party cookies (set by other services we use). The cookies on this site fall into the following broad categories:

1. Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are needed for the website to function and cannot easily be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions you take, such as:

Navigating between pages
Using basic features
Remembering simple preferences (for example, your cookie choices)

You can set your browser to block these cookies, but parts of the site may then not work correctly.

2. Performance and analytics cookies

We use these cookies to understand how visitors use our website so that we can improve it over time.

We use Google Analytics to collect information such as which pages are visited, how long visitors stay and which links are clicked. This helps us see what works well and what could be clearer.

The information collected by these cookies is aggregated and does not directly identify you.
We do not use Google Analytics cookies to collect names, email addresses or other obvious contact details.

For more information about how Google Analytics uses data, you can visit How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

3. Advertising and third-party cookies

To help keep our resources freely available, we may display advertising and include partner links on some pages. When we do this, we may use cookies provided by advertising networks and partners, including Google AdSense and related Google advertising services.

These cookies may:

Limit how often you see the same advert
Help measure the effectiveness of adverts
Show adverts that are more likely to be relevant to your interests, based on your visits to this and other websites

Even if you choose to opt out of personalised advertising, you may still see adverts; they are just less tailored to you.

Third-party services (for example, embedded content or linked partner sites) may also set their own cookies when you interact with them. We do not control these cookies and recommend you check the cookie or privacy policy of the relevant third party for more information.

To learn more about how Google uses cookies in advertising, you can visit Google’s technologies and ads page.

To manage how Google shows you personalised adverts, you can visit Google Ads Settings.

How do I control or opt out of cookies?

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can choose to:

Accept or refuse all cookies
Delete existing cookies from your device
Set your browser to let you know when a website wants to set a cookie

If you block some or all cookies, our website may not work as intended and certain features may not be available.

You can usually find cookie settings in the “Options”, “Settings” or “Preferences” menus of your browser. The following pages may help:

You can also choose to opt out of Google Analytics tracking across many websites by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Where a cookie banner or preference tool is available on our site, you can also review and update your choices there.

How does this relate to your personal data?

Cookies may work together with other information we hold about you (for example, if you contact us directly) to help us understand how our site is used and how to improve it. For more information about how we use personal data, please see our Privacy Policy page.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example to reflect changes to the cookies we use or to legal requirements.

Contact us

If you have any questions about how we use cookies on this website, please contact us using the details provided on our Contact page.

We will do our best to respond to your questions and concerns about our use of cookies and similar technologies.