What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps us analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of a our website.

How we use cookies

This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. The tool uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on our website activity.

We will never (and will not purposefully allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

Please note that Google also issues it’s own Privacy Policy statement and cookies policy. Please follow the links provided to view these: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ or http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/ We are keeping a close eye on what is known as “the EU cookie law”.

We would rather not plaster our site in alerts and pop ups so we have provided this useful information for you to understand what it means. Please follow the link if you would like further information about “the EU cookie law”: http://www.ico.org.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_guide/cookies

Other useful information about Privacy Policy and Cookie usage:
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?csw=1