Cookie Policy

Cookies

What are cookies?

When you visit our website we will place a small file on your electronic device (computer, phone, or tablet etc) – this file is called a ‘Cookie’. This is a common practice that most websites that you visit will use.

 

Cookies are used so that:

• We can remember the  information you’ve provided us with while on our website, so you don’t have to keep re-entering the information whenever you visit a new page
• We can look at how you use our website so that we can improve it for other users

When you use our website you agree that we can put these cookies on your device. 

We do not use Cookies that also monitor other websites that you’ve visited (these are known as privacy intrusive cookies).

 

Our cookies will not identify you but if you prefer you may wish to turn Cookies off. For more information about how to this, and more information about Cookies in general, please see https://www.aboutcookies.org/ 

How do we use cookies?

We use the following cookies:

Necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of online booking  forms.

Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.

Third-party cookies

(for example, Twitter and Youtube). Some third-party software utilises its own cookies over which we have little or no control. You can find out about their use of cookies by visiting the third party's website.

Enabling some of these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

Google Analytics

Because we want to make sure our web content is the best that it could possibly be we use something called Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this website.

 

Google Analytics collects information about:

• What pages you visit on this website,
• How long you are on this website,
• What you did to get here (through another website or by search engine),
• What you clicked on when visiting this website,
• The number of times a word is searched for and the number of negative returns of a search result.

 

We do not collect any personal information (such as your name) only the above activity.

 

This is an example of how we store this data and how long we keep it for:

 

Name	Typical Content	Expires
_utma	randomly generated number	2 years
_utmb	randomly generated number	30 minutes
_utmc	randomly generated number	when you close your browser
_utmx	randomly generated number	2 years
_utmxx	randomly generated number	2 years
_utmz	randomly generated number and data on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search)

 

For more information about Google Analytics and to opt out of Google Analytics all together please see: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.