Use of Web cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers which are downloaded to your browser, computer, tablet, mobile or similar device when you visit a website. We store cookies on your browser or your derive or device if you agree;

Where your browser settings have been set to automatically accept cookies, by remaining on our site, we will take this to mean that you are happy to accept our use of cookies. You can update these preferences at any time in the settings area of your chosen browser.

To block cookies, you can activate the setting on your browser allowing you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.  However, if you use your browser settings to block some or all cookies (including essential cookies) the functionality of the site may be impaired or you may not be able to access all or part of our site; this may hinder your intended use of the site but it is your choice how you wish to set cookies preferences within your browser/device.

Use of cookies helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around 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.

  • Functionality cookies. These are used 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).

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.  These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Analysis services collect information about how visitors, in general, use a website; this may include which pages are visited, how long visitors remain on a particular page and if error messages are generated when trying to access a particular page or area of the site.  However, these cookies do not collect any personal data and are anonymous; the data is merely aggregated to allow improvements to the functionality of the website.