Cookie Policy​​

What are cookies and similar technologies?

Our website uses cookies and other similar technologies to distinguish between you and other users.

Cookies are small text files containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers). They are stored on your browser
or the hard drive of your computer, smartphone or other tablet devices when you visit a website. Websites use cookies in
a variety of ways to improve your experience and help us make improvements.

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies may be either ‘persistent’ cookies or ‘session’ cookies. A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and
will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. A session cookie, on the
other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Except for strictly necessary cookies, all cookies on our website will expire after 6 months.

Cookies we use

We use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, which sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use
of our website. The information collected helps us to understand how people use our website, what technologies they use,
whether they have followed a link or carried out a search to find the site and which pages are most popular. It doesn’t
give us individually identifiable information about your interaction with the site.

Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this
information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on
Google’s behalf. Google won’t associate your Internet Provider (IP) address with any other data held by Google.

To find out more about the Google Analytics cookie and to reject or delete this cookie, you can visit the Google Privacy
site at http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

How can you manage cookies?

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by us, or indeed any other website, you can do this through
your browser settings. Stopping all cookies might mean you can’t access some of our services or our website may not work
properly for you.

Where can I get more information?

For more information on how we may use your personal data, please see our privacy notice. You can find out more
information about cookies and your rights on the ICO’s website https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/