Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small, often encrypted text files, located in browser directories. Cookies are used by web developers to help users navigate their websites efficiently and perform certain functions. Due to their core role of enhancing/enabling usability or site processes, disabling cookies may prevent users from using certain websites.

We use cookies to:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Determine if you are logged in or not
  • Remember your search settings
  • Remember if you have accepted our terms and conditions
  • Remember your preferences such as colours, text size and layout

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

Our website requires cookies to function. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

If the settings on your browser are adjusted to accept cookies, we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this.

Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. The help function within your browser should tell you how.