Cookies

Necessary Cookies

When you first visit our website, we only use necessary cookies. This means that additional cookies (called “Optional Cookies” in this policy) won’t be used unless you agree to accept/enable all cookies, or select your own cookie preferences.

Optional Cookies

Optional cookies are used for analytical, performance, advanced functionality and advertising purposes. More information is set out in this policy. Optional cookies help us improve our website and we believe accepting all optional cookies provides you with the best user experience.

Cookies can be “First Party”, i.e. set by us, or “Third Party”, i.e. placed on your device by another organisation when you visit our website. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by an organisation providing a service to us or by our business partners, so that they can advertise products and services to you on our website and elsewhere on the internet. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access third-party cookies stored from other websites; nor can other organisations access the data in the cookies we use on our website.

Changing your preferences

These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website. You can select to accept/enable some or all of the optional cookies either within the settings of your own device or by selecting the option provided on our website.

How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies should expire when you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your device until they expire after a set period or are deleted. For each of the cookies used on our website we have set out the duration in the tables below.

Necessary Cookies

Necessary Cookies are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that allow page navigation or enable you to access certain areas of our website. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies. Necessary Cookies can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences but doing so may result in reduced or limited functionality of our website. In some circumstances our website may cease to function as intended if necessary cookies are disabled, deleted or otherwise altered. We do not accept any liability for any loss arising where necessary cookies are disabled, deleted or otherwise altered. We use the following necessary cookies:

Optional Cookies

We and third parties like to use cookies on this website to enhance your user experience, personalise content, provide social media features, and analyse the traffic/visitor actions on our website. Optional cookies help us to provide you with the experience we intend to provide when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our website and the service we provide. We need to obtain your consent to use Optional cookies; this is usually by way of a pop-up notice. As set out in this policy, you can change your preference at any time.

Advanced functionality, analytics and performance

We use advanced functionality cookies to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

We use analytical/performance cookies to enable us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors use our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

We would like to use the following optional advanced functionality, analytics and performance cookies:

Google analytics cookies

These cookies allows us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These are third party Cookies.

For further information on Google Analytics Cookies

cookie: _ga – Set by Google analytics to distinguish new users. Expires after 2 years

cookie: _gid – Set by Google analytics and is part of the tracking code. Expires after 24 hours

cookie: _gat – Set by Google analytics and is used to throttle the request rate on high traffic sites. Expires after 10 mins

GDPR/Cookie consent Cookies

These cookies allows us to provide you with a choice on which cookies you want to allow, and it is a lawful requirement for our website to comply with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

For more information on GDPR please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office website.

cookie: cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary – Set by the GDPR consent banner. Expires after 1 year

cookie: viewed_cookie_policy – Set by the GDPR consent banner when the ok button is clicked. Expires after 1 year

Flash Cookies

Flash cookies may be used to store user preferences for media player functionality and without them some flash content may not render correctly.

Social Media Cookies

We use social media cookies to allow you to share our website (or parts of it) on social media.

These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Please note that our social media partners may also use cookies over which we have no control and if you have consented to the use of those cookies elsewhere, as they are on your device without your consent, those cookies will be active. We cannot prevent this. To control the use of these cookies, you will need to contact the controller of that cookie. We use the following social media platforms:

For further information on Facebook Cookies

For further information on Twitter Cookies

For further information on LinkedIn Cookies