Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your web browser or your device (including the hard drive of your computer, your tablet, or mobile phone) to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide website features. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device.

The rules on cookies are covered by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR). We must tell you if we set cookies, clearly explain what they do and why, and get your consent.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for various purposes, including:

• • To make our website work: Essential cookies that enable core functionality.
• • To understand how our website is used: Analytical/performance cookies help us see how visitors move around our site, allowing us to improve its functionality.
• • To remember your preferences: Functionality cookies recognise you when you return, personalising content (e.g., remembering your language choice).
• • For marketing purposes: Targeting cookies record your visit, pages viewed, and links followed to make our website and advertising more relevant to your interests.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

• • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of our website (e.g., to enable secure login). If you prevent these, we cannot guarantee how our website will perform.
• • Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website. The information collected is aggregated and anonymous, used to improve our site.
• • Functionality Cookies: Used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you.
• • Targeting Cookies: These record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website and advertising more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties (e.g., advertising networks, web traffic analysis services like Google Analytics) may also use cookies over which we have no control. These are likely to be analytical/performance or targeting cookies.

4. Your Consent & How to Manage Cookies

We must obtain your active and clear consent for non-essential cookies. This means you must fully understand that your actions will result in specific cookies being set, and you must take a clear and deliberate action to give consent (e.g., clicking an "Accept" button on a cookie banner). We cannot set non-essential cookies on your homepage before you have consented.

If you don't want us to use cookies, you can remove them from your computer or change your browser settings to block cookies altogether or ask you to accept them from some websites. However, if you block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

You should have the means to enable or disable non-essential cookies easily. You can typically do this through your browser settings:

• • Delete all cookies
• • Block all cookies
• • Allow all cookies
• • Block 'third-party' cookies
• • Clear all cookies when you close the browser
• • Use a 'private browsing' / 'incognito' session
• • Install browser add-ons/plugins for cookie management

For more information on managing cookies, please refer to your browser's help documentation.