2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small files of information that we store in your computer or mobile device when you visit our website, if you agree. They allow us to collect information about your interaction with our website enabling us, for example, to remember your preference settings or track your interaction with the website to deliver more relevant content.

3. The cookies we use

Our website may use the following cookies:

i. Strictly necessary cookies.  These cookies are essential in order to enable you to interact with our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

ii. Functionality cookies. These cookies recognise a returning user to our website and remember their preferences. This enables the website to personalise our content for you (for example, your choice of language, region or text size).

iii. Security cookies. These cookies help us identify and prevent potential security risks.

iv. Performance/Analytics cookies. These cookies collect information about the numbers of visitors to our website and how they use it, for instance to which page visitors go most often, and if they receive error messages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the website works and to ensure that visitors find what they are looking for easily.

v. Google Analytics cookies. These cookies are used by Google Analytics, which monitors traffic levels, search queries and visits to our website. Using these cookies, we can receive detailed information about your visits to our website. Neither we nor Google LLC associate information received from your device with you personally. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google’s privacy policy. If you want to opt out of Google Analytics, you can download and install the add-on for your web browser here.

vi. Targeting/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.

vii. Third party embedded content & Social media cookies. Our website may use different third party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (through the use of sharing buttons), or embedded content from Youtube and Vimeo. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies and your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

The general expiry date for our cookies is 13 months. This date may vary occasionally.

4. Your consent & choice about cookies

On your first visit to our website you will have seen a pop-up to inform you about the purposes for which cookies are being used and the means to opt-out. Although this pop-up will not usually appear on subsequent visits you may withdraw your cookie consent at any time by following the instructions in this cookies policy.

If you don’t want to allow cookies at all, or only want to allow use of certain cookies, you can use your browser settings to withdraw your consent to our use of cookies at any time and also delete cookies that have already been set. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser.

Note that by disabling certain categories of cookies, you may be prevented from accessing some features of our websites or certain content or functionality may not be available.