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Cookie Policy

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We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Sites and Services. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use our Sites and Services and also allows us to improve them. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Last updated: 28th October, 2021

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We use the pieces of information that cookies record to help us improve services for you by, for example:

  • enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task

  • measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast

  • analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with our services so we can make them better

 

How to control and delete cookies:

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.

However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit the AboutCookies.org website which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.

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Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.

If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone, please refer to your handset’s user manual.

 

Cookies We Use and Why:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies let you move around the website and use essential features like secure areas. These cookies don’t gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.

 

We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:

  • Remember things like information you’ve entered on forms

  • Make sure you connect to the right service on our website when we make any changes to the way the website works.

 

Cookies we have defined as ‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies will not be used to:

  • Gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you.

  • Remember your preferences or username beyond your current visit.

 

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, if you prevent these cookies, we can’t guarantee our website will perform as expected during your visit.

Performance Cookies

These cookies help identify information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how our website works, understand what interests our users, and measure how effective our advertising is.

We use performance cookies to:

  • Provide statistics on how our website is used.

  • See how effective our adverts are (we don’t use these cookies to target adverts to you when you visit other websites).

  • Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur.

  • Test different designs of our website.

Using our site indicates that you accept the use of ‘Performance’ cookies. Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, if you prevent them, we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.

Functionality cookies

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