Cookie Policy

Like most websites, we use some cookies.

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your browser. They’re used for many things, such as remembering whether you’ve visited our site before or to help us work out how many visitors we get on the site over a given period of time. These cookies contain information about the use of your computer but they don’t include personal information about you.

 

What Cookies do we use

  • Session Cookies As you travel around our site, there are times when we need to remember technical information about you as you go from page to page.  This cookie contains no personally identifiable information and is erased when you end your session (usually when you leave our site).   
  • We use web analytics services to recognise your browser or device. This information is anonymous and only used for statistical purposes. It allows us to track information, such as how many individual users we have and how often they visit our website  
  • Persistent or Login Session Cookie. This can be used for your convenience so that on subsequent visits, you aren’t required to provide log-in information again. This cookie will remain on your computer indefinitely, even after you leave our site.

 

Controlling your cookies

We don’t use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you, although we may combine information from your registration with the data we get from the web analytics services we use and their cookies to analyse how you and others use our site.

 

Managing cookies in your browser

Most current browsers allow you:

  • Block third party cookies.
  • Block cookies from particular sites.
  • See what cookies you’ve got and delete them on an individual basis.
  • Block all cookies from being set.
  • Delete all cookies when you close your browser.

 

You should be aware that you will lose any preferences if you delete cookies, which includes where you have opted out from cookies (as this requires an opt-out cookie to be set).   Find out more about how to manage your cookies for each of the browsers below:

Google Chrome

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Firefox

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies

Internet Explorer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196955

Opera

http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/5.0/en/9277.html

Safari iOS

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677

Android

http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=169022

Blackberryhttp://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/32004/Turn_off_cookies_in_the_browser_60_1072866_11.jsp

Windows Phone

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/web/changing-privacy-and-other-browser-settings.aspx

 

Managing analytics cookies

Along with logfiles, we use Google Analytics to analyse what people view on our website. Google Analytics isn’t personal information – it doesn’t know who you are.

For more information about Google Analytics’ privacy policy and opt out of Google Analytics completely by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on  (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout )  You should be also able to use your browser in “private” or “incognito” mode, to look like a brand new user every time you browse the web.