Cookie Policy

Cookies are small pieces of data which are placed onto your computer by websites that you visit. These are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as provide marketing information to site owners.

There are some cookies that are essential in order to ensure that this website works. These are classed as ‘strictly necessary’ cookies.

If you’ve already chosen to block third party cookies via the settings in your browser, please be aware that your cookie preferences will not carry over if you change sites, and you will need to ensure that you set your preferences on every site you visit.

• To remember information that you have inputted into this website, so you don’t have to give it to us every time you visit the site.
• To find out if the emails we send out have been read, and if our customers are finding them useful
• To help us understand how users are using our services, so that we can identify and make improvements
• To help us personalise the website so that we can remember your preferences and settings.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies allow you to use the features on this website. Without them, we would not be able to provide you with the services you request. Examples of how these cookies are used include remembering what is in your online basket, and remembering your previous actions after you navigate back to a page, such the steps on a contact form.

Example of a strictly necessary cookie on this website:

PHPSESSID – A session cookie required to follow your progress through the site. This cookie is essential in order for the site to remember any information you enter & without it, every page you visited would treat you as a new visitor.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies record information regarding the choices that you have made on the site and allow us to tailor our website to you. For example, if you set your location, we use functionality cookies to store the location that you set and show it to you next time you visit.

Example of a functionality cookie on this website:

catAccCookies – This cookie is used to remember not to show users the cookie notice again, once they have indicated that they accept.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies are used for internal purposes to help us provide you with the best user experience we can. Information supplied to us by these cookies help us to understand how visitors use our website and enable us to improve how we display site content to you.

‘Performance’ cookies can be turned off, however doing so may negatively affect our ability to understand what people like or don’t like about our website so that we can make it better.

Example of a performance cookie on this website:

PREF – A cookie set by YouTube, used to track the number of views for a particular video. The pref cookie tracks user preferences and uses this information to serve related content or adverts within embedded YouTube videos.

Third Party Cookies

Some pages on our website may use third party services or software, such as videos, maps, or social networking features. These third party services may set cookies on your device.

Accept or block cookies in your browser settings

You can block any cookies from any website by changing the setting in your browser that allows you to refuse some or all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies). If you do choose to block all cookies, you may not be able to access some or all of our website, and you may find that your ability to enjoy the site is negatively affected. For more information about how to disable cookies in your browser, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

Where a cookie is provided by a third party, you may be able to use the third party’s own tools to block their cookies.

Opt out of advertising cookies

You can choose to opt out of almost all advertising cookies by updating your preferences on the ‘Your Online Choices’ site. Do note, however, that opting out of these cookies will not prevent you from seeing adverts online, it will simply mean that they won’t be tailored to you.