For almost any modern website to work properly, it needs to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a site will create files known as cookies.
Cookies are small pieces of data that are created when a user's browser loads a particular website. The website sends information to the browser which then creates a text file. Every time the user goes back to the same website, the browser retrieves and sends this file to the website's server. Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID and the contents of your shopping baskets, and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently.
We use cookies to obtain information about your visits and about the device you use to access our website. We also use them to monitor and improve our services.
This includes where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type and, depending on the cookie also includes the reporting of statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns.
Gathering data about visits to the website, including numbers of visitors and visits, length of time spent on the site, pages clicked on or where visitors have come from.
Information supplied by performance cookies helps us to understand how you use the website. For example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services. We generally use independent analytics companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third party company (e.g. Google).
Cookies help you get the most out of our website. You can however set up your browser to delete or refuse some or all of them, or to notify you when you are sent a cookie and therefore choose whether or not to accept it. You may also delete or refuse, some or all of the cookies, on our website.
Here you can find links to the cookie management page for the most popular web browsers:
