EU Website Cookie Directive
Website Cookie Information
Accepting our cookies will not give you more adverts or pop-ups. It will simply hide the Cookie Directive notification that appears on all of our pages.
A cookie is a small data text file, which a Web site stores on your computer's hard drive (if your Web browser permits). They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies are used by websites to save user preferences between visits.
Types of Cookies
Category 1 - Strictly Necessary Cookies
- These cookies are essential to using the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for cannot be provided and the website will not function.
Category 2 - Performance Cookies
- These cookies are used for Web analytics, Ad response rates and Affiliate tracking. 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.
Category 3 - Functionality Cookies
- These cookies are used for things such as remembering settings a user has applied to a website such as layout, font size, preferences, colours etc. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Category 4 - Targeting or Advertising Cookies
- Cookies placed by advertising networks to collect browsing habits in order to target relevant adverts to the user.
Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies have a lifetime set by the website and will retain information that can be used when you reopen a website in the future.
1st Party Cookies are set by the website you are actually visiting. 3rd Party Cookies are set from content displayed on the website from other websites. This can be from advertising or sharing tools such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
Third Party Cookie Options
We supply advertising for 3rd parties and these 3rd parties may store a cookie on your browsing device.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page. (Alternatively users can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page).
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit:http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Further Reading
Information about cookies
Useful information about cookies can be found at:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org
Internet Advertising Bureau
A guide to behavioural advertising and online privacy has been produced by the internet advertising industry which can be found at:
http://www.youronlinechoices.eu
International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom
Information on the ICC (UK) UK cookie guide can be found on the ICC website:
http://www.international-chamber.co.uk