Last updated 7th July 2025
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are placed on your computer (or smartphone or other device) whenever you visit a website. We use cookies for different reasons, including to enhance your visit to our website.
The cookies we place on your computer cannot be used to retrieve any other data from your hard drive, to pass viruses to your computer, or capture your e-mail address. Each cookie is unique to your web browser and device.
Cookies serve several functions. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at a website or app, or a user’s general location.
Cookies can help to remember your username and preferences, how well a website or app is performing or even allow content to be recommended to you.
Certain Cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click to “remember me” when logging in to a website or app, a cookie will store your username.
You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org
The cookies we use, and their purposes
Name | Purpose | Whether cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested and whether we will seek your consent before we place the cookie |
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Essential |
These cookies are vital to the basic performance of the website; they enable critical authentication and validation, session management, and fraud prevention Examples Cookies that:
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The website won’t function properly without these cookies, and they are enabled by default and cannot be disabled. |
Performance | We use these cookies to optimise the experience on the website and understand what content visitors might be more interested in. They collect data such as volume of visitors, clicks and conversions; they are used at an aggregate level and combined with other non-personal data, to track the success of our products’ campaigns. Examples Cookies That:
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These cookies help us to improve our website by understanding how you use our website. |
Third Party Marketing Cookies & Social Advertising | We have relationships with a number of third-party advertising networks and social media partners (we call these, Advertising Partners) that use Cookies for marketing purposes. We may use an Advertising Partner to serve you with targeted advertising while you are on a third party website. We only work with Advertising Partners who adhere to industry standards and who provide you with the ability to ‘opt-out’ of targeted advertising. Note that all such Cookies will be blocked if you choose to ‘Decline’ Cookies through our site (see ‘Managing your Cookie Preferences’ section). As you might be aware, various social media platforms also use information they collect about you to serve you with advertising while you’re using their platform (for example, social networks present users with advertising using ‘social context’). We participate in these types of programs with our social media partners. We encourage you to learn more about advertising on the Social Network and the choices you have by referring to their privacy statement and opt out options. These cookies allow us to display relevant advertisements to you, by enabling marketing cookies, you grant permission for personalised advertisements. |
These cookies help us to improve our website by understanding how you use our website. |
Managing your cookie preferences on the Website
You can manage your Cookie preferences through your browser settings. Help and advice on how to do this can be obtained from the following website: wwww.allaboutcookies.org
You can also find out more about the use of cookies and opt out anytime via the following links:
Use of other websites
When you use links to other websites which we provide to you, we recommend that you read the privacy and Cookies policies on those websites.
Cookies as part of e-mails
We use cookies to understand whether emails we send to you are opened or not and which links or URLs you might click on within those emails. We do this to determine the effectiveness of our communications and to help us better tailor emails and online advertising we may serve you in the future.
You can disable cookies for emails by changing your device or email program settings (generally, you can do this by turning off ‘auto image loading’).
Contact us
Please get in touch using the 'Contact' section on our website if you have any
questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.