This site uses cookies as a necessary part of delivering the site to you, and also to collect anonymous information on the pages visited to help us improve the website and make it more relevant. By using our web site you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Cookies and how they benefit you
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help us provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us to:
- Make our website work as you would expect it to
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to provide a better service)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
Most browsers (the software on your device that you use to view websites) can be set to accept or reject cookies. In addition, if you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can click here to reload the home page with the Cookie choice panel at the bottom. However, doing so will mean that parts of our site will not work as you would expect it to.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work, including by remembering your search settings. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- Google Maps and Streetview
Disabling these cookies is likely to break the functions offered by these third parties.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows – this helps to identify when our site is not working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at, etc. This helps us to continue improving our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before. That enables us to put more money into developing our services for you, instead of spending it on marketing.
We use Google Analytics to collect and report on the visitor statistics for our site.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. However, doing so however will probably limit the functionality of our site (and a large proportion of the world’s websites), because cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns about cookies relate to “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.
Changing your mind about Cookies
If you wish to reconsider accepting cookies from this site, please click here to reload the home page with the Cookie choice panel at the bottom.