Cookie information

A cookie is a small text file that sits on your computer or mobile device. Cookies are used to remember your settings when you revisit a website, what pages you visit and user preferences. Cookies provide valuable information to website owners to adapt and make changes to the site to improve the user experience.

Cookies are anonymous and contain no personal data. If you ever register or leave personal information at a site, the only confirmation they give is that you are a returning visitor. The cookie will only contain information that you freely provide to a website.

Websites should allow you to choose the types of cookies you are happy to allow, other than strictly necessary cookies.

Session cookies

Cookies that expire at the end of a browser session, normally when you exit your browser.  Session cookies allow websites to recognise and link the actions of a user during a browser session. They can be used for a variety of reasons such as remembering items added to a shopping basket, for security, such as when you log into internet banking and to help pages load effectively. Such cookies are often called ‘strictly necessary’ so cannot be turned off.

Persistent cookies

These cookies are stored on a device between browsing sessions, They allow one or more sites to remember details about you, such as your selected preferences for the next time you access the website. This can include remembering your password. They are also used to target advertising based on sites and subject you show an interest in.

First and Third-party cookies

First party cookies are set directly by the website you are visiting. They are used to study how you navigate a site.

A third-party cookie is set by a different domain (website) than the one you are visiting. This often occurs when the website you are visiting includes elements from other sites, such as images, social media plug-ins or advertising. 

When you visit our website we collect some standard internet usage information, and patterns of behaviour. This is done to learn how visitors use our website and help us improve.

We collect this data in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website (unless you have previously approved us to do so). We will not associate any data gathered from these sites with any personally identifying information from any source.

If we want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will tell you beforehand. We will make it clear when we collect this information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Information on what the law says about cookies and similar technologies can be found in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).

You can control your cookie preferences for our website by selecting the cookies you will allow on the cookie banner which is displayed as you enter the website. 

Most web browsers also allow some control of most cookies through the browser history. You can find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them on the All About Cookies website (opens in a new tab or window).

Information about all the cookies used on our website can be found by clicking the ‘Details’ tab of the cookie banner which is displayed as you enter our website.