What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

Cookies cannot harm your computer. They play an important role in helping us understand how to improve the website to suit your needs. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.

We use cookies on this site to enable certain parts of the site to function and to collect information about your use of the site so that we can improve our visitors’ experience and show more relevant content and advertising.

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. These cookies make  the website work and deliver services that you’d expect, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.

When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

 

Preferences & Features Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as your language preferences and any customisations you make to pages on our website during your visit. These cookies can also assist you in changing text size, font, and other parts of web pages that you can personalise. For example, by remembering your region, we may be able to provide you news on events taking place locally.

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

 

 

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it.

 

How to manage cookies

If you wish to restrict, block or disable any Necessary cookies, you can do so by changing your browser settings. If you would like more specific information about how to change your browser settings, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which has detailed information for each browser as well as more information about cookies in general.

Please be aware that if cookies are disabled certain features of the site will not function as intended and this may affect your user experience.