How do we use Cookies on our website?
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.
This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Analytical/performance cookies
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. They are used only by our Content Management System to determine if you are logged in as an Administrator of the website.
Without cookies enabled, we can’t guarantee that the website and your experience of it are as we intended it to be. Please find a list of the individual cookies we use in the table below:
| Cookie name | Purpose |
| _ga_xxx | Used by Google Analytics |
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics |
| _gat_UA_xxx | Used by Google Analytics |
| _gid | Used by Google Analytics |
| Various | If you are logged in as a backend manager then WordPress will set a number of cookies |
Third party cookies
Cookies can be divided into two types: First-party cookies, set by our website and listed above, or Third-party cookies: which are cookies are set by domains other than this one and are typically used for online advertising purposes. These may include cookies set by Google or Facebook, for example, set when you use those sites, and they may track other sites you visit, including this one.
Chrome – a special note: other browsers (Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge) block third party tracking cookies by default. However, at time if writing (July 2023) the Google Chrome browser allows third party tracking cookies unless you specifically switch them off. You can do so in Chrome by going to Settings > Privacy and Security > Third-party cookies
On some pages of this website, we may have embedded third party content, which also may add their own cookies. This can include:
• Video content held on YouTube or Vimeo. When you play these videos, YouTube or Vimeo may place cookies on your computer.
• Instagram feeds, showing images from our Instagram account. Pages holding these may place cookies on your computer.
You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the placing of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
The following links explain how to manage, block or delete cookies in the most popular browsers. The links below will open in a new tab or window.
Google Chrome (for both Desktop and Android on mobile)
Apple Safari (Desktop)
Mozilla Firefox (Desktop)
Apple iOS (iPhone)
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this Google Tools page.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will remain unless the cookie cache is cleared, unless otherwise indicated above.