Cookies and how they benefit you

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help 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 a website.

Our cookies help us:

Make our website work as you would expect.
Improve the speed/security of our website.
Make our marketing more effective.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are set to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with 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 (like the one on our about page). Our site includes the following which use cookies:

Twitter feed
YouTube video
Google Translation
Google Analytics

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so may limit the functionality of our website and a large proportion of other websites you may visit. Cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

It may be that your concerns regarding 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.