Cookies

This site uses cookies to store information on your computer.

Some of these cookies are essential to make our site work and others help us to improve by giving us some insight into how the site is being used.

These cookies are set when you submit a form, login or interact with the site by doing something that goes beyond clicking some simple links.

We also use some non-essential cookies to anonymously track visitors or enhance your experience of this site. If you’re not happy with this, we won’t set these cookies but some nice features on the site may be unavailable.

To control third party cookies, you can also adjust your browser settings.

By using our site you accept the terms of our Privacy Policy.

Cookies and how they benefit you

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

Make our website work as you’d expect
Improve the speed/security of the site
Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
Continuously improve our website for you
Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
Pass data to advertising networks
Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

We use cookies to make our website work including:

Social website cookies
So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

Simple Share Buttons Adder plugin – provides us with lots of sharing buttons all in one neat package
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

A number of social networks document their privacy friendly share links on the following pages:

Anonymous visitor statistics cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

Analytics Cookies (third party) we use:

__utma – Google Analytics
__utmb – Google Analytics
__utmc – Google Analytics
__utmz  – Google Analytics
_ga – Google Analytics
_gat – Google Analytics

Please read Google Analytics’ privacy policy to find out how they use your data.

You can opt-out following this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Turning cookies off

If you really don’t want us to use cookies – and you don’t mind the way that can change your experience of our website – you’re absolutely free to turn them off or delete them. If you want to do that, this very useful guide will help you.

You can delete any cookie you don’t want from your browser, here’s a list of the most popular browsers and links to information on how to delete cookies.
Internet Explorer – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
Firefox – http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Clear%20Recent%20History
Opera – http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/
Chrome – https://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/more/privacy.html
Safari – http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/5.0/en/9277.html