Cookies Policy

1. USE OF COOKIES

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website. We use cookies on this website to:

  1. Recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);
  2. obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
  3. To help us better understand our customer requirements and interests;
  4. target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests; and
  5. make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

We may obtain information about your computer (or other electronic device) such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information. This will not usually identify you personally.

In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website. The exception is where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested or for the operation of our website.

You have a variety of tools to control cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, including browser controls to block and delete cookies and controls from some third-party analytics service providers to opt out of data collection through web beacons and similar technologies. Your browser and other choices may impact your experiences with our products.

There is a notice on our home page which describes how we use cookies and which also provides a link to our website privacy policy. If you use this website after this notification has been displayed to you, we will assume that you consent to our use of cookies for the purposes described in this website cookie policy and our website privacy policy.

2. THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

We work with third party suppliers who may also set cookies on our website, for example Facebook, Google. These third-party suppliers are responsible for the cookies they set on our site. If you want further information, please go to the website for the relevant third party.

You will find additional information in the table below.

3. DESCRIPTION OF COOKIES

The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

Name of cookie

Owner

Purpose of the cookie

Google Analytics

Google

This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc which uses cookies to show us how visitors found and explored our site, and how we can enhance their experience. It provides us with information about the behaviour of our visitors (e.g. how long they stayed on the site, the average number of pages viewed) and also tells us how many visitors we have had.

Django:sessionid, cookielaw_accepted, csrftoken, Django_language

Persistent technical cookies

For the session, to indicate whether the user has accepted the cookie alert so that it is not shown repeatedly, save code to apply CSRF guard to forms, save the selected language.

Facebook: reg_ext_ref, jsreg_fb_ref, jsreg_fb_gate

Facebook

Facebook: social media cookies for access via an external site.

4. HOW TO TURN OFF COOKIES

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website. For further information about cookies please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.