When you visit our Website we issue a "cookie" file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information. Cookies enable us to: improve the use of our Website; to recognise your computer; to store settings to help facilitate your use of our Website; and to deliver a better and more personalised service.

Some of the cookies we use are essential for the Website to operate and have already been set. You may delete and block all or some cookies from this Website. 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. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our Website.

Why we use cookies

We use cookies for 2 purposes:

1. Our own cookies to enable the delivery of functionality that improves the ease and speed of using the Website.
2. Third party cookies to enable us to track the relative popularity of our web site using Google Analytics.

The cookies we use for the functinality of the web site are in general session cookies, which means that once the session closes the cookies will be removed. The only cookie which is persistent is called showCookieMsg and is used so that the web site knows when to show the cookie message in the bottom corner of the web site. Once you click the "To hide this cookie message click here" button that message will be hidden from view for 180 days

We also use third party cookies on our Website for various purposes, as detailed below:

• Google Analytics This is a tool that we use to better understand how people are using our website. It is also used by Google to better understand the performance of its own websites. What information are they tracking? The Google Analytics cookie enables our website to recognise you if you visit again - as well as information about the pages you visit; when you visit; how long you visit our website; the IP address and what site you were looking at before arriving at our site (the referring url). See more information on Google Analytics Cookies

For further information on cookies or for details on how to delete them or refuse their installation on your computer, please visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/