Cookies Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We may use the following cookies:

• Analytical or performance cookies. These 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).

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Title and Cookie Name	Purpose	More information
Google Analytics Analytical or performance AND _ga	This cookie enables us to: Estimate our audience size and usage pattern; and Recognise you when you return to our site.	https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US
Hotjar Analytical or performance AND _hjRecordingEnabled	This cookie enables us to: Estimate our audience size and usage pattern; and Recognise you when you return to our site.	https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/6952777582999-Cookies-Set-by-the-Hotjar-Tracking-Code
Cookieconsent_status Functionality	This cookie enables us to store the value ‘dismiss’ to prevent displaying the message again on next visit.

Consent and personal data

Where our use of cookies involves the processing of personal data, such personal data will be processed by us in accordance with our privacy policy.

In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website. The exception is where the cookies are essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested or to enable you to access and use our website.

Third-party cookies

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. We do not accept any liability for these third parties’ compliance with their legal obligations. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies and may include the following third parties:

• Google Analytics
• Hotjar

Managing cookies

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

All of the major browsers supply information to assist you with managing your cookie preferences, below you will find links to assist you with changing your cookie preferences. You are able to control cookies that are not strictly necessary.

• Firefox –Enable and disable tracking cookie pages
• Safari iOS – Clear the history and cookies page
• Google Chrome – Enable or Disable cookies page
• Microsoft Edge –Browsing data and privacy page

All cookies will expire after one year. 

Further information

You can find out more information about cookies by visiting the following information website:

• http://www.allaboutcookies.org