Cookies

Cookies are small files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. This site makes use of cookies to help improve our understanding of how you use the site.

This information does not directly identify you, but because we respect your right to privacy, when you first visit our website, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies.

  • Necessary: These cookies are necessary for this website to function and cannot be switched off.
  • Analytics: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.
  • Embedded Content: These cookies are set when external content is embedded in the site, for example videos from third-parties like YouTube.

Analytics

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. The cookies that are in place from Google are used for the analytics data.

 

We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website. Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us.

 

We send a partial record of your IP address to GA with the last few characters or “octet” removed, this reduces the ability for anyone to use this to identify an individual. GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.

 

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

 

These cookies do not store any personal information about you, your computer, your visit, or your browsing history. After the time indicated above, the cookies’ validity is destroyed and the browser instructed to remove the cookie/s from your computer.

 

However, if you wish to, you can change your browser settings to block or remove cookies at any time. Go to aboutcookies.org for information on how to do this.

Embedded content

We embed content from third parties such as YouTube, Twitter and Vimeo. These providers will set their own cookies, which we do not control or have access to.

To get more information about the cookies that they use, please visit their respective privacy policy pages. If you do have cookies disabled in your browser, you may notice that some of the features of these services won’t work as expected.