What is a cookie?
Wikipedia's explanation:
'A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is usually a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the user's previous activity. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the state of the website or activity the user had taken in the past. This can include clicking particular buttons, logging in, or a record of which pages were visited by the user even months or years ago.'
Why do we use cookie's on this website?
Cookies help us to provide you with the best experience from our website.
Managing cookies
Most web browsers allow you to control the cookies stored on your computer through your browser's settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been stored and how to manage and delete them, visit All About Cookies.
Removing or disabling cookies
You may choose to remove or block cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings, please note, this may impact your experience of our website.
Adobe Typekit
On most occasions we use Typekit (from Adobe) to enhance website typography. Adobe use cookies within Typekit to track usage statistics.
For more information, visit Adobe's Cookie Policy.
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site:
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We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site.
The information collected is anonymous and does not identify a visitor. The data includes the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from and the pages they visited.
For more information, visit Google's Privacy Policy.
Facebook Cookies
On most occasions, we embed feeds from Facebook on this site. Facebook does not use cookies to create a profile of your browsing behavior on third-party sites or to show you ads, although it may use anonymous or aggregate data to improve ads generally. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases, this may impact your ability to use Facebook.
For more information, visit Facebook's Cookie Policy.
Twitter Cookies
On most occasions, we embed feeds from Twitter on this site. Twitter may cookies to better understand how you interact with their services, to monitor aggregate usage by Twitter users and web traffic routing to their services. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases, this may impact your ability to use Twitter.
For more information, visit Twitter's Privacy Policy.
Information collection and use
We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed on this page.
We may collect basic personal information from you, in order to keep you informed with information, at your request. At any time, you can request to be removed from our contact database, and you will not hear from us again.
Secure storage
All of our data is stored with our web host. Only authorised members of staff who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will not, under any circumstances, share with any third party individual IP addresses, email addresses, personal contact details or other information collected through this website or related statistic tracking systems. If information sharing is required for the purposes of this or any other event, you will be given immediate notice.
External links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this web site.
Data protection
As we are not classed as a “data controller”, we do not have to notify the Information Commissioner about the information we collect or our practices. Please note however, that we comply meticulously with the eight principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 and understand best practice for managing information.
