What are cookies?
Cookies are small amounts of text data created by websites and stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. These cookies can save your settings on a website and are used to deliver a more efficient and enjoyable website experience by storing information about how you use the website. For example, storing your login details and thus removing the need to login every time you visit the website or storing information on the pages you visited which allows for suggesting related content based on a previous visit.
There are two types of cookies: (i) First-party cookies which are set by the website you are visiting and (ii) Third-party cookies which come from other websites e.g. ads embedded on a page using Google AdSense.
Are cookies harmful?
Cookies cannot access any information on your computer other than the information you have openly disclosed to the website which sent the cookies to your computer. Cookies can’t be executed as code and as such cannot distribute viruses.
What types of cookies do we use?
We only use first party cookies but also use some third party website tools which use cookies in different ways. Third party tools on this website:
Share This – This social media sharing plugin uses cookies to apply a random unique identifier not tied to personal data to identify users and their sharing behaviour. To opt out visit https://sharethis.com/privacy
Google Analytics – We use Google Analytics to measure how users interact with website content. These cookies do not collect personal information about visitors and use an anonymous identifier to distinguish visitors. See more on how Google Analytics uses cookies.
Google Adwords & Remarketing – Cookies are used to various purposes including delivering relevant ads to users. Here’s some more information from Google on how they use cookies.
Changing Your Settings for Cookies
For more information including how to change your cookie settings or block cookies altogether, please visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/. Please remember that blocking cookies may alter your experience of using this website.
Cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers
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