Cookie 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.

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files of letters and numbers which may be stored on your computer or mobile device and contain data related to a website you visit.  The use of cookies allows our Website to improve by remembering preferences expressed by a user or tracking a user’s use of a website for statistical analysis.

Types of Cookies Used

The following are the various types of cookies used on the Website:

  • Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website and use the Website’s features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

 

  • Functionality cookies – These are used to recognise you when you return to the Website. These cookies can also be used to monitor and analyse the performance, operation and effectiveness of the Website, so that we can improve and optimise it.

 

  • Session cookies – these are temporary cookies that are not persistently stored on your computer or mobile device. They are used to deliver basic functions of a website while you are actively using it and are generally erased when you close your browser.

 

  • Performance cookies – these cookies collect information about how you use the Website, for instance which pages of the Website you most often use. The information collected by these cookies does not identify you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Why do we use cookies?

We use Google Analytics to help monitor and analyse use of the Website. Google Analytics is a type of performance cookie which collects standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information collected by this cookie is transmitted to Google who then used it to evaluate visitors’ use of the Website and to compile statistical reports on Website activity. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites use this Analytics Opt-out Plug-in.

For more information on cookies please visit: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm .

Managing cookies

If you do not want your browser to accept cookies from our Website, you can turn off the cookie acceptance option in your browser settings.  For further information about how to turn off cookie acceptance please refer to the “Help” function in your browser.

Please note that disabling cookie support may prevent our Website from functioning properly and you may not be able to fully utilise all of its features and services.

This cookies policy forms part of our overall privacy policy.