Information about the use of cookies:

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Our website uses cookies to anonymously 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 make improvements to the way we present information.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information
• Collect any sensitive information
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Google Analytics:

We specifically use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visits to the site, where visitors have come from, the pages they visited and other demographic data. These statistics do not contain personal data and cannot be traced back to an individual.

Google provides information regarding use of cookies in Google’s Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt-out of Google Analytics, across all websites, by downloading and installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Third party services:

Like most websites, we use a number of free third-party services to provide enhanced functionality on this site. Cookies are used by these services to track levels of usage. In particular this includes WordPress.

Also, if you view embedded media like videos from YouTube or Vimeo, that website may set a cookie which contains anonymous, non-personally-identifying information which tracks the number of plays of the media.

To find out more about these cookies, or to opt out of having cookies set by these services, please see the cookie and privacy policies, on the relevant service websites.

Cookie consent:

If you continue to use the site and do not change your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on this website.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. If you choose to reject cookies via your browser, you may still use our site though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org.uk