Cookie policy

Cookies and other non-identifying information

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our website. This website uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies enable you to move from page to page within our website and any information you enter to be remembered. A session cookie is deleted when you close your browser or after a short time. Persistent cookies allow our website to remember your preferences and settings when you visit our website in the future. Persistent cookies expire after a set period of time.

This website uses the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or Performance cookies. These all 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.
  • Functionality cookies. They are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preference.
  • Targeting Cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visites and the link you have followed. We may share information with third parties for the purposes of displaying more relevant advertising based on your interests.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name

Purpose

More information

[COOKIE NAME]

[DESCRIPTION OF THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE COOKIE IS USED AND ITS DURATION]

Examples of purposes for which a cookie may be used:

This cookie [is essential for our site to OR enables us to]:

[(a) Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.]

[(b) Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted to your individual interests.]

[(c) Speed up your searches.]

[(d) Recognise you when you return to our site.]

[(e) Allow you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient, for example, by allowing you to store items in an electronic shopping basket between visits. If you register with us or complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim.]

[(f) [OTHER PURPOSES].]

[LINK TO EXTERNAL INFORMATION WHERE APPROPRIATE]

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Many of the third party advertising and other tracking services listed above offer you the opportunity to opt out of their tracking systems. You can read more about the information they collect and how to opt out through the privacy policy links listed above.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire [BETWEEN 30 MINS AND A 2 YEAR PERIOD/ AFTER [DATE]]