Cookies policy

Our website uses cookies and related tracking technologies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto your device when you visit a website. It allows the website to recognise your device and store some information about your preferences and actions.

We use cookies to:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Gain insight into how people use our website, to help us improve it
  • Make our advertising more relevant to you

We don’t use cookies to collect any sensitive or personally identifiable information about you. Below is some more information about the different types of cookies we use.

Performance

Our website wouldn’t work properly without cookies. For example, when you log into a secure area, we set a cookie so that you can browse around without being logged back out. These cookies expire at the end of your browsing session.

Analytics

We use cookies to collect anonymous information that helps us understand the people who visit our website and how they use it. For example, we look at the number of people who visited our website, how they found it and what pages they visited. We learn about our visitors, such as what device they were using and roughly where they were located. We use the information to help us improve our website and marketing.

Advertising

We collect some anonymous information about your browsing habits so that we can make our online advertising more relevant to you. We also use cookies to limit the number of times you see an advert and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

Third party

Some features of our site are provided by carefully chosen third parties. These companies may set cookies on your device when you interact with a particular feature, for example watch a video or complete a form. These cookies are not within our control and we recommend referring to the relevant privacy policies for more information about them.

Controlling cookies

You can control cookies through your browser settings – check their help and support area for instructions.

To learn more about cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Your Online Choices can teach you more about online behavioural advertising. While you’re on their site, you can see a list of companies who may show you adverts based on your web browsing activity. They’ll help you to turn these ads on or off.

The main analytics service we use is Google Analytics. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies across all websites you visit.

Our cookies policy forms part of our privacy policy.