Cookies

General

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that websites put on your computer. These cookies allow us to distinguish between users of the website without actually identifying you. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.

The cookies we use are ‘analytical’ cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily.

If you do not consent to the use of cookies, please do not proceed further on this website. Thank you for visiting.

Read more about cookies:

• What is a cookie (BBC)
• Types of cookie (BBC)
• Managing cookies (BBC)
• Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
• About cookies (Pinsent Masons LLP)
• Wikipedia

StatCounter

Our analytical cookies are placed by StatCounter, which is an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. We use Statcounter because better understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.

Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on our website. This data includes:

• Time and date of visit (this can help us to identify and plan for busy periods on our website)
• IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet)
• Browser and Operating System (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access our site)
• Device Information e.g. device type and screen size (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access our site)
• Referring Data e.g. a search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find our website)

Furthermore, when you visit our website a Statcounter cookie (called "is_unique") may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site.

You can learn more about cookies from Statcounter and set your browser to refuse the same here:

https://statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/

For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy:

https://statcounter.com/about/legal/#privacy