A cookie is a small text file that may be placed on your device when you visit our website. When you next visit our website the cookie allows us to distinguish you from other users.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically.
Session cookies
Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser. Once your browser is closed the cookies are automatically deleted.
Essential cookies
Essential cookies are technical cookies that may be required for the operation of our site. Without essential cookies, our site may not operate properly.
Google Analytics
This type of cookie allows us to collect information about website visitors. This will help us understand which browser they have come from and where they drop off the site.
Google Adwords
These type of cookies explain to us how we acquire website traffic and from what website you have come from. This type of cookie will help us track marketing success and will add a cookie when a user clicks on an ad.
Facebook Pixels
We will use Facebook tracking pixels to have a better overview of our Facebook marketing activity. Facebook pixels take care of advertisement re marketing, optimization, and tracking all in one place to aid us in running successful and relevant marketing campaigns.
Perfomance cookies
Performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors navigate around it. This helps us to improve the functioning of our site by allowing us to change the way visitors use them. The information we collect from performance cookies is then gathered and grouped which means that we cannot identify you from it.
Experience cookies
Experience cookies allow our site to remember the behaviour of users. Our site uses these cookies to provide you with enhanced and personalised features. For example, we use information gathered through what are known as 'web-analytic' cookies to compare the choices you make to those of our other customers so that we can learn from those choices. Information collected by experience cookies cannot track your browsing activity when you leave our sites to browse other sites.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies will document your visits to our site, the pages you have viewed and the links you have followed. We then utilise this information to make our site and the content/advertising displayed to you more relevant to your interests. For example, we use marketing cookies to limit the number of times that you see adverts. Sometimes we share information about your browsing activity, (which we have collected from cookies) with our commercial/media partners. They may use this information to advertise products, which may interest you, on other sites.
Your right to refuse cookies and what happens if you refuse them
You can refuse cookies by activating the relevant setting on your browser. However, if you do so you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. If you continue using our site and do not change your browser settings we will assume you consent to us using cookies as described above.
For more general information on cookies and how you can manage them visitwww.aboutcookies.org.uk