Privacy Statement

By using our site you agree to accept this privacy policy and are aware that our policy may change with time. Any changes to this policy will appear on this web page.

Summary of terms

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of text, with a variety of uses such as storing login information, holding the contents of a “shopping basket” on an e-commerce site, or for recording that you have visited a site previously. Websites can only access the cookies that they have previously sent to you, and not other sites’ cookies.

Cookies are also used to hold preferences for a site that a user has previously selected, such as font size or other aspects of the appearance or layout of a web site.

There are many misconceptions about cookies – that they carry viruses, that they are a type of Spyware (i.e. they can read personal information on your computer) and that they are only used by advertising companies. In reality, cookies are merely pieces of text and cannot carry out any malicious activity on a computer. However, they are used by some websites to collect anonymous data about user to create a profile which can be used for analysing site usage patterns and for targeted marketing of adverts on a web site. This latter example is known as a third-party cookie.

Most current web browsers support the use of cookies but users can select whether to accept them or not. Increasingly it is possible to be selective about the activity of cookies (i.e. whether to only allow them from the originating site and not from third parties), to only allow cookies during the active browsing session (i.e. so that the cookies expire when the browser is closed and are not stored on the computer).

Internet Explorer

• v.5.0 or 5.5
  Tools>Internet Options>Security>Custom Level>scroll down to select Accept/Disable/Prompt for cookies as required

• V.6 onwards
  Tools>Internet Options>Privacy>Advanced>tick “override automatic cookie handling” box and then select Accept/Disable/Prompt for cookies as required

Netscape

• V.6 onwards
  Edit>Preferences>Privacy and Security>Cookies> select Disable/Enable cookies for the originating site only/Enable all cookies as required

Firefox

• V1.5
  Tools>Options>Privacy>un-tick the “allow sites to set Cookies” box

• V2.x
  Tools>Options>Privacy>un-tick the “Accept cookies from sites” box

Opera

• V.6
  Tools>Preferences>Privacy>Uncheck the “Enable Cookies” box

• V.8 onwards
  Tools/Preferences>Advanced>Cookies>choose to "never accept" or “refuse all" cookies (dependant on version).

• For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed or how to delete existing cookies from your hard drive visit the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
  
• We use a third party website analytics provider, Google Analytics, to track and analyse users of the site