Your cookies

If you're wondering what cookies are then let us offer some clarity. Cookies are text files of letters and numbers. They are created when you visit a website that uses cookies - like this website. They are either stored in the memory of your device or are placed on the hard drive of your device.

Cookies do a lot of different jobs. Websites likes ours use cookies to source anonymous information so that we can keep improving the site's content, appearance and functionality. Below you'll find a description of what cookies we use and how they work.

What cookies do we use?

We use performance cookies.These cookies aren't essential but they provide us with useful anonymous information about how people use our website. Without them, it would be difficult for us to understand how our website is performing and we may miss out on ways to enhance your user experience. We use these cookies to:

• Obtain statistics about how our website is used (including which pages are visited most often and how users came to visit our website)
• Evaluate website performance
• Help us ensure that the content and features on our website are relevant for your future visits

Our cookies are not used to collate any personal data about our visitors, purely anonymous information. Furthermore, we don't use any of our cookies to target you with online advertising, which means no annoying pop ups from us.

How to switch off Cookies

As performance cookies are useful but not essential, we've developed a simple tool which will allow you to switch them off. In the right hand side of the screen you have two options:

• "Allow cookies" - click this if you are happy to allow us to use cookies.
• "Switch off cookies" - click this if you want to switch off cookies.

You can change your mind at any point and update your cookies preferences by clicking on the 'cookies settings' tab at the bottom of any page.

More Information

Our Privacy & Cookies policy contains more information about how we use cookies on our website. If you'd like more information about cookies in general, then please take a look at this useful website: http://www.aboutcookies.org.