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Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. A cookie is a very small text file that is stored on your computer within the web browser, when certain web pages are visited. A cookie does not contain or collect information in isolation, but when read by a server via a web browser it can give information to facilitate a more user friendly service such as detecting errors. A cookie will not harm your computer and no personally identifiable information is stored from the use of this site. For more information on how cookies are used on this site, please see How we use Cookies.

Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. If you do not wish your progress through the site to be tracked then all recent versions of popular web browsers have the option to not accept cookies. This will not affect your access to the majority of information available on our website. See Managing Cookies to find out how you can check your cookie settings.

This information is outlined as part of our efforts to comply with recent legislation and to ensure that we are open, honest and clear about user privacy. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more information. If you'd like to learn more about cookies visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/cookie-faq/

How we use cookies

During the course of your visit to our website there are a number of ways information about you may be collected. An obvious example would be if you completed an online form requesting further information about our services.

Information can also be collected with the use of Information gathering technologies such as cookies and log files. These both help us identify what areas of the site you have visited and how you got there. This information can help us to improve the content and structure of the site.

We use a number of different cookies on our site. The following tables list the cookies that we use, and what we use them for. You can find out more about cookies at http://www.aboutcookies.org

Managing Cookies

If you want to restrict or block the cookies we set, you can do this through your browser settings. Instructions for managing cookies in the most popular browsers are below. For all other browsers, the ‘help’ function within your browser should tell you how.

Google Chrome

To amend the cookies settings:

  1. Click on the chrome menu.
  2. Select settings.
  3. Click + Show advanced settings at the bottom of the page
  4. Under the Privacy section click the Content settings button
  5. In the Cookies section you are able to change the settings, such as allow cookies, remove all cookies, block third party cookies.

More detailed instructions are available at http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647

Internet explorer 8, 9 and 10

To amend the cookies settings:

  1. Select the Tools menu (ALT-X)
  2. Select Internet Options
  3. Click the Privacy tab
  4. Move the slider to choose your preferred settings.
  5. For more specialised settings click on the Advanced button, check the Override cookie handling checkbox and modify the settings to suit your requirements.

More detailed instructions are available at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-10

 

Mozilla Firefox

To amend the cookies settings:

  1. Select Options
  2. Click the Privacy tab

To clear cookies, select the remove individual cookies link.

To amend the cookie settings, change the Firefox will dropdown in the History section to Use custom settings for history.

More detailed instructions are available at http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Safari

  1. Choose Safari settings menu
  2. Select Preferences
  3. Click the Privacy tab.
  4. In the Block cookies section, specify whether the browser should accept or reject cookies from websites.
  5. If you want to see which websites store cookies on your computer, click Details.

If you set Safari to block cookies, you may need to temporarily accept cookies to open a page. Repeat the above steps, selecting Never in the “Block cookies” section. When you’re done with the page, block cookies again, and then remove the page’s cookies. More detailed instructions are available at http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11913

Microsoft Edge

  1. Click on More options (… symbol) on the top right corner of the browser.
  2. Select Settings from the drop down menu.
  3. Click on Choose what to clear under Clear browsing data.
  4. Check the Cookies and saved website data (and any other data you want to clear) and click on Clear button.

More detailed instructions are available at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-microsoft-edge-pc