Introduction
Like many other websites, our website uses cookies. One of the reasons we use cookies is to help us analyse how customers use our site and the success of our marketing campaigns. This means we can make informed decisions about improvements to the site and get a good understanding of the kind of content our customers like to read.
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer when you visit our site. While they allow us to see patterns in customer behaviour, they do not allow us to identify you directly.
When you visit our site, you will be briefly informed of what cookies are and how you can manage them. You will also be made aware that if you continue to use the site you are agreeing to the use of cookies. If you choose to disable the cookies, the majority of the site will work as normal. However without information on how people use our site, it is harder for us to make improvements and tailor our service to your needs.
We use cookies to gather anonymous data of user behaviour on our website. We may use this data to improve the targeting of our advertising in the following ways:
- Show adverts on third-party websites to users who have previously visited our website
- Adjust our paid advertising on search engines (such as Google) to improve our targeting of previous website visitors
- Show adverts on third-party websites to users who have not visited our website but display similar traits and behaviours to the ones who have.
If you wish to opt out of Google's use of cookies you can do so by visiting Google's Ads And Data page, or you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page.
What Cookies We Use
Session Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function and will be set regardless of whether you allow other cookies. These cookies are not stored on your computer and will be deleted when you close your web browser.
Functionality Cookies
The functionality cookies that we use allow us to monitor patterns of traffic on our website, accurately measure the success of our marketing campaigns and allow you to interact with social media while on our site.
A full list of our cookies can be found here.
Cookie-less Pings
Cookie-less pings are a method widely used to send information to web analytics provider without using cookies. “Pings” are used instead of cookies and strips all data of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). These only contain non-identifiable or aggregate information about website interactions such as timestamps, browser type, website referrer and consent state.
When cookies are blocked due to consent choices, no data is collected. We use conversion modelling based on general models and high level, non-identifying variables.
You can find out more about cookie-less pings here.
More Information About Cookies
To learn more about cookies, including how to manage them and how they affect your
Online activities, please visit or www.allaboutcookies.org You can
also learn how to control cookies on different browsers at www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies or if you want to know how to delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/clear-cookies-installed.html.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you can visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
The Internet Advertising Bureau website (Your Online Choices) which you can visit at www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/ allows you to install opt-out cookies across different advertising networks.
New technologies such as Mozilla's Do Not Track (www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/dnt/) allow you to tell websites not to track you.
It is noted however that blocking cookies may, on occasion, reduce the functionality of a website or prevent access, depending on the browser options which are selected.
