Cookies Policy

Introduction: What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer when you visit a website. In general terms they are used by many website operators for benign purposes to help the user enjoy the content of the website and gain access to password protected areas. They can also be used to remember your preferences for accessing and viewing the website. They are also often used to collect data about your visit, such as which pages of the website you visited and for how long.

Our Policy on Cookies

This websites does make very limited use of cookies. They do not interfere at any level with the operation of your computer, nor do they represent a threat to your online privacy. We are perfectly happy to comply with legislation which requires us to provide information about the cookies used on this website and clear instructions on how to refuse them, should you so choose. If you do elect to block our cookies, please be aware that this website may not function as intended. You will also not be able to gain access to the password protected areas of this website.

To help you understand more about the cookies we use, we have grouped them by function to help explain what they do:

• 1. Strictly necessary (session cookies present)
• 2. Performance (none present)
• 3. Functionality (none present)
• 4. Targeting (none present)

1. Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing the secure areas of the website protected by passwords. Without accepting these cookies, some of the services you may want to use cannot be provided. A common example of a session cookie, are the ones used to allow you to securely access your online bank accounts.

You can block the use of the session cookies by changing the settings in your web browsser, but in so doing it will prevent you from accessing our secured content libraries we make available on this website.

2. Performance cookies

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.

We do not knowingly make use of this type of cookie on this website.

3. Functionality cookies

This website does not make use of this type of cookie.

These cookies allow a website to store and recall the personal choices you make in the way you interact and view different parts of that website. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and configure certain default preferences for viewing data.

Please note using the information below to block such cookies should not degrade the performance of a website. If it does, move onto another website that isn’t adversely affected.

4. Targeting or Advertising cookies

Let us first start by confirming that this website does not deploy any cookie of this type.

Although targeting cookies have a legitimate place in the scheme of things, their widespread misuse led to the introduction of the Legislation that now requires website operators to make disclosures like this one.

The legitimate use of targeting cookies includes providing a visitor with the option to knowingly interact with the website’s software and provide personal information that can be stored and applied logically to present different information that may more closely match the visitor’s areas of interest.

The more questionable use of targeting cookies is when they collect detailed information about you and the choices you make in clicking your way through the website with a view to controlling the advertising information you are presented with at the time, or upon a return visit. Some cookies may even store and pass on personal information that will subsequently be used to send you unsolicited follow-up marketing emails and telephone calls.

Personal privacy is important, and many people advocate using the information below to block cookies of this nature as a sensible precaution to take. If the website’s performance is seriously degraded after blocking targeted cookies, we suggest you vote with your mouse and find an alternative website that does work under your chosen level of web browser security.

Managing Cookies on your PC

You can change the security level of your web browser at any time, which will directly affect the types of cookies that can operate on your PC. Please refer to your web browser help files to discovery how to do this.