Our website uses cookies, nearly every websites does. They are there to provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
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If the settings in your browser are set to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you accept this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using such as desktop browsers or mobile devices, how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before. This data allows us to understand how people interact with our website so we can make it work as well as we can.
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.