Cookies

What are cookies?

The cookies used by this site do not contain any of your personal information, and we cannot use them to find out who you are.

Cookies are small text files that websites save to your computer. They often include a randomly generated number which is stored on your device. Many cookies are automatically deleted after you finish using the website.

Cookies are commonly used to improve browsing experience; measure website performance; support the delivery of services and support sharing information through social media, such as Twitter or Facebook.

Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies, this site's system will issue cookies as soon you visit our website or access other services. If you have switched off cookies then some of the functionality of our site may not be available to you.

The cookies that we use on our website only collect anonymous information they do not collect personal information.

How does this site use cookies?

This website uses cookies to make it easier for you to use and to improve your overall experience when accessing our online service. Using cookies to distinguish you from other users means that we can store your preferences and provide increased functionality.

Here are some examples of how we use cookies:

• Improving your experience: to ensure that you don't have to repeat some actions unnecessarily, we use cookies to remember that you are logged in and to remember search terms and search results.
• Measuring website performance: cookies support monitoring and help us to work out which pages are most useful to users, and to improve pages that they don't find useful. We also use cookies in order to monitor visitor numbers. No personally identifiable information such as your name or address is collected as part of this process.

What cookies are on this website?

There are two types of cookies: ‘session cookies’ and ‘persistent cookies’: session cookies only last for the duration of a website visit. Your web browser normally deletes session cookies when it quits. Persistent cookies outlast a session and will normally have an expiry date.

• Performance cookies
  These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages they go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect any information that identifies a visitor. Information collected by these cookies is aggregated and is therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve the way the website works.
• Functionality cookies
  These cookies allow the website to remember any choices that you make such as your user name, and provide enhanced customized features. These cookies can be used to remember changes you make to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise or to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a page. Information stored by functionality cookies is anonymized and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.

Where can I find more about cookies and how to turn-off or delete them?

Find out more about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org including information on how to control and delete them in all the major web browsers.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access parts of our site, or you may experience reduced functionality when accessing certain services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our website.

For information about deleting cookies from the browser on your mobile phone, refer to your handset manual.

Google Analytics

This web site use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help analyze the use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, including your IP address, will be transmitted to Google servers, to evaluate use of the website, to generate reports on website activity for website operators and to provide other website activity and internet related services. Also, the web analytics services may provide such information to third parties if required by law or if third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will never associate user's IP address to any other data. By using this site you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the aforementioned manner and for the aforementioned purpose.
If you want to opt-out, download and install the following add-on for your web browser:  http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en