Cookies

Like most websites, our website uses cookies to help provide you with the best experience we can.

What are cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. They contain a site name and unique user ID.

When you visit a website that uses cookies for the first time, a cookie is downloaded onto your PC or other device (e.g. tablet, mobile phone).

The next time you visit that site, your device checks to see if it has a cookie that is relevant (that is, one containing the site name), and sends the information contained in that cookie back to the site. The site then “knows” that you have visited before, and this information can be used to tailor what appears on your screen.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

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

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

How we obtain your consent to cookies

When you visit our website for the first time we will show you a notice which tells you that we use cookies, why we use them, and how you can change which cookies you choose to accept. If you enter our website having seen this notice without making any changes to the existing cookie settings we will take this as your agreement to those settings as we have told you about them and we assume you are happy with them.

How to remove cookies

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the use of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our site. If you’re stuck on how to change your cookie settings please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.

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 analytics programs also tell us 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.

We cannot use analytics cookies to identify you, however we cannot know, nor be held responsible for how third party suppliers use their own cookies.

Some cookies are allocated to your PC only for the duration of your visit to a website, and these are called session based cookies. These automatically expire when you close down your browser. Another type of cookie known as “persistent” cookies can remain on your PC for a period of time.