Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help 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

How we use cookies

We use our cookies to help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient
  • Remember if we have already asked you certain questions (for example if you declined to take a survey)

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

We do not associate the data which we gather from this site with any personally identifying information from any other source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable data through our website, we will tell you. We will make it clear when we collect personal data and will explain what we intend to do with it.

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on the software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are happy for us to use cookies. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will probably mean that our site will not work as you would expect, or at all.

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:

  • YouTube - Privacy Policy powers some of the videos on our site
  • Google - Privacy Policy is used for Google map integration and analytics. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • Vimeo - Privacy Policy powers some of the videos on our site
  • Wufoo - Privacy Policy is used to power the forms on our site

Disabling these cookies may mean that the functions offered by these third parties will no longer work.

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily Like or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

The privacy implications of sharing our content on these sites will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

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 which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

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Turning Cookies Off

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can learn more about doing this here. Doing so however may limit the functionality of our website.

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so-called "spyware". If so, then 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. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software .

You can find a list of all of the cookies used on our site here