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Cookie policy

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings, that can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Cookies play an important role. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.

Managing cookies in your browser

Some people prefer not to allow cookies, which is why most browsers give you the ability to manage cookies to suit you.

In some browsers you can set up rules to manage cookies on a site-by-site basis, giving you more fine-grained control over your privacy. What this means is that you can disallow cookies from all sites except those that you trust.

You can delete cookies and other site and plug-in data, including data stored on your device by the Adobe Flash Player (commonly known as Flash cookies) by clearing your browser cache. How you clear your cache depends on the web browser you are using. Here are some guides for the most popular browsers.

Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
Internet Explorer http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Safari http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

We may use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
  • Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Learn more about analytics cookies and privacy information at: www.allaboutcookies.org

This version is dated January 2015