Cookie Policy

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time 2 while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site but their experience and the usability of the site will be impacted.

The types of cookies we use on our website

Session cookies – these are temporary and are erased when you close your internet browser.

Strictly necessary cookies – These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for. They are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like forms and internet banking, cannot be provided.

Performance cookies – These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited. These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

Functional cookies – These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience. These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting or advertising cookies – These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation such as advertisers.

Other third party cookies

On some pages of our website, other organisations may also set their own anonymous cookies (for example, a Facebook feed). They do this to track the success of their application, or to customise the application for you. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies, nor can the other organisation access the data in cookies we use on our website.

Other websites

Our website may, at times, contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies. For example, when you share a page using a social-media sharing button (for example, LinkedIN, Facebook etc), the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this.

How do I turn cookies off?

It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. However, doing so may prevent the website from working as expected. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Detailed guidance on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org.