Cookies
COOKIE LAW
ABOUT COOKIES
The ‘cookie law’ was passed by the European Union last year, but the UK government allowed an extra year’s grace before treating it as law here. That period of grace ceased at the end of May 2012.
The new law affects millions of websites across the EU. To find out how it affects yours, read on.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a small text file that a website can store on your computer to help keep track of a variety of things, for example if you want to stay logged into a website, or your preferences within a website.
MORE ABOUT OUR COOKIES
We use cookies to make our website work including:
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- Google Analytics
- Session Cookies
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
SOCIAL WEBSITE COOKIES
So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Instagram we have included sharing buttons on our site.
COOKIES ARE SET BY:
We use cookies to make our website work including:
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
VISITOR STATISTICS COOKIES
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called ‘Analytics’ programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, and help us to develop our services to you. We use Google Analytics for these features.