Cookie Policy
Overview
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files, which often include a unique identifier, that are sent by a web server to your computer, mobile phone or any other internet-enabled device (“device”) when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work efficiently and help provide us with business and marketing information to enable us to make informed decisions on the development of our websites.
We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
We use two main types of cookies:
- Essential cookies
- Performance cookies
1. Essential cookies
Essential cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work.
2. Performance cookies
Performance cookies are used to help us see how you use our website — e.g. which pages you visit. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you; all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve the performance of our website, understand what interests our users, and measure how effective our advertising is.
We use performance cookies to analyse the performance of our website, to help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur, and to see how effective our adverts are (this isn’t shared with third parties). Sometimes cookies are managed for us by third parties, but we don’t allow the third party to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed above.
Opting out
At any point, you have the right to request that we do not process your personal information for any marketing purposes.
You can opt out of cookies at any time. As an added privacy measure, you can also use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. However, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
To remove cookies from your computer, you can use these guides:
Disable cookies
You can disable and remove cookies if your browser supports it. To check and update your cookie settings, you will need to know what browser you are using and what version you have. You can usually find this out by opening the browser, then clicking on ‘Help’ and then ‘About’. This will give you information about the browser version you are using.
To manage your cookies, refer to your browser’s help section or visit the aboutcookies.org website.
Further information
- Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
- All About Cookies
- Your Online Choices — Internet Advertising Bureau
- International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom
Changes to this policy
Please be aware that this policy may be updated at any time. As such, please ensure that you regularly read the latest version of this page.
Questions
If you have any questions or complaints relating to our cookie policy or how we use the personal information we have about you, please contact us and we will try to respond to you promptly.
Glossary
Cookie — information that a web server stores on your hard disk so that it allows a website to store your preferences on your machine and later retrieve them.
IP address — a 32-binary-digit number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the internet.
Session — a series of interactions between two communication end points that occur during the span of a single connection and is related to a particular session number.