Our Privacy & Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

 

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile device. Some cookies are essential for a website to work and help us provide you with relevant information. They also allow us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) when you access our site and to improve the usability and performance of our site.

 

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our sites and to help us improve their structure and content. We cannot identify you personally from this information

We have set out below some common types of cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
  • Analytical/performance cookies They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works and figure out what readers want to see more of.
  • Advertising cookies These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
  • Social media cookies These allow you to share content from our website on social media (such as Facebook or Twitter). This information may be linked to targeting or advertising activities.
 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

COOKIE NAME PURPOSE MORE INFORMATION DURATION
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary Cookie Consent for necessary cookies Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. 1 year
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary Cookie Consent for non-necessary cookies Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. 1 year
elementor Necessary Used in context with the website’s WordPress theme. The cookie allows the website owner to implement or change the website’s content in real-time. Persistent
_ga Performance / Analytical Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years
_gat Performance / Analytical Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. 1 day
_gid Performance / Analytical Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 1 day
Turning off and deleting cookies

When you use our site, we’ll give you the opportunity to consent to all of the cookies we’ve listed above (except for strictly necessary cookies). You can also refuse to accept any cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our sites. If you use different devices to view and access our sites (for example, your computer, smartphone, tablet etc) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.


If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience while on the sites.

 

Blocking cookies

You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

 
More information

For more detailed information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org which provides guidance on how to control cookies.

 
Changes to this notice

We may revise this notice from time to time. Any changes we may make to our cookies notice in the future will be posted on this page.