Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. These files cannot be used to identify you personally and you can manage them yourself.

These information they provide can be used to improve services for you though, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task

• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested

Our use of cookies

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

In order to provide a reliable and efficient service, it is sometimes required that we place small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the article, Internet Browser cookies- what they are and how to manage them

Learn how to remove cookies set on your device

The type of cookies you will encounter on this site is Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.

How to control and delete cookies

We never use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.

However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how, or alternatively visit www.aboutcookies.org

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.

If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.