Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual necessary, analytical, performance, functionality or targeting cookies we and/or third parties use and the purposes for this in the table below:

Cookie 

Purpose 

More information

Google Analytics:

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These cookies enable us to estimate our audience size and audience usage patterns. 

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site.

We have set the Google analytics tool to anonymise IP addresses. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Google Analytics cookies information:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage 

Click this link to opt out of Google Analytics across all sites:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en 

Click this link for an overview of privacy at Google:

https://policies.google.com/privacy 

Youtube: 

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These cookies are set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos and to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface.

Click this link for an overview of privacy at Google:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Avada Privacy Bar: 

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This cookie stores user preferences to facilitate GDPR compliance. 

The Avada wordpress theme will create a cookie with the name “privacy_embeds” on user clients browsing the site to manage and store user consent to load the different third party embeds and tracking scripts.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including any essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. For more information on disabling cookies and more information on cookies generally, see the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/. 

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will be stored/used only for as long as is necessary for the purposes of the tracking, after which they will expire.