How we use Cookies on this site
Our website uses a technology known as cookies to store small amounts of data on our visitors’ computers or devices. Cookies are small pieces of text data that can be placed on a visitor’s computer, normally to provide enhanced functionality and/or improved relevancy of information. For more information about cookies, visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.
Cookie Audit
In order to comply with GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulations), we regularly review our use of cookies and will publish further information here as appropriate.
Cookie Consent
The law now requires that we are required to ask visitors to consent to the acceptance of certain types of cookies from this site. On your first visit you will be presented with a Cookie Consent banner, where you can choose to accept or customise your cookie preferences.
At any time you can quickly and easily change your cookie preferences by visiting the Privacy button at the bottom of each page.
Summary
We believe there is no reason for any concern over any of the cookies used on our website; however certain users may have privacy concerns or consider some cookies to be intrusive. Below we outline what cookies we use and why, to help you make an informed choice.
First-party cookies
These are cookies set by ourselves or the software running on our website. Some of these are to gain insight into how visitors arrive at our site, and which pages they view, to help us monitor and improve the service. Others are essential for operation of certain parts of the website and may only last for the duration of your browser session.
We have listed our first-party cookies below, along with their purpose and expiry period.
Session ID:
Name: ASPSESSIONID
Purpose: Used to preserve the context of your visit and to know whether you have logged in so you do not have to re-enter this information on every page you visit.
Expires: At the end of your session (when you close your browser).
Cookie Consent:
Purpose: Used to remember your choices about which types of cookie you have chosen to accept via the cookie consent banner.
cookie_consent_user_accepted: 2 months
cookie_consent_level: 2 months
Google Analytics:
Name: __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz, __utmv
Purpose: We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors find and use our website. This helps us to continue to improve the site.
Expires:
__utma: 2 years
__utmb: 30 minutes
__utmc: at end of session (when you close your browser)
__utmv: 2 years
__utmZ: 2 years
View the Google Privacy and Terms.
Third-party cookies
Some of the functionality of the site uses third-party plugins, for example social media buttons (Facebook, Twitter etc.), or Google Maps. These may use cookies created by such a third-party service and although we have chosen to integrate the services with our website, we do not have control over the cookies set by these services.
We use these services as a convenience to our visitors and on the basis that the providing party adheres to their privacy and/or data use policies. (See Further Information below).
Because they are outside our control, the detail of these cookies may change, so we have listed some information and links about the respective third parties to help you find out more. The actual cookies may also vary depending whether you are logged into those social media sites when browsing our website.
Facebook 'Like' Button:
We use this on some of our pages to let people easily promote site information to their friends.
View the Facebook Privacy Policy.
Twitter 'Tweet' Button:
We use this on some of our pages to let people easily promote site information to their friends.
View the Twitter Privacy Policy.
YouTube:
Some of some of our pages contain embedded YouTube videos. YouTube is owned by Google.
Google Privacy and Terms.
Third-party Advertising
Our site may feature advertising served from Google's Ad Servers. At present we do not use any targeted behavioural or personalised advertising mechanisms, although Google itself uses cookies to serve these adverts. See Google Privacy and Terms.
Controlling and Blocking Cookies
We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to block cookies from this website (or any other), you can do so by modifying your browser settings. Your browser’s Help function should advise you on how to do this. If you would like more information on how to do this for your specific browser, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
If you use your browser settings to block all cookies, then you may not be able to access certain parts of our site.