Cookie Policy

This website is created using WordPress and default cookies are automatically applied by them to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps to provide you with a good experience when you browse the website and also for improvements to be made. CookieYes is also used to provide GDPR compliant cookie consent.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored 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.

You may wish to disable cookies on this site and others. You can select your Cookie Preferences for this site by clicking on our Cookie Consent Banner and then the ‘Customise’ button. Or you can disable cookies via your browser (see below for guides for the most popular browsers or visit the Help Section of the one you use). You should remember that disabling all cookies including essential ones may mean websites you visit don’t perform the way they’re meant to.

The About Cookies website has guides on all of the most popular browsers and lots more information.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

This site may use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They allow WordPress to display the web pages to you.                  

Analytical/performance cookies. These recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps to improve the way the 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. The main use of these cookies on this website is to enable you to make a comment on any blogs and remember you if you return. 

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to this website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information is used to make the website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

Cookies can expire at the end of a browser session or they can be stored for longer. Your browser settings can also enable you to clear cookies on exit from specified websites.

Please note that third parties (including, for example providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control and we cannot accept any liability for the third party’s compliance with its legal obligations. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies.