Cookie Policy

What is this page about?
This policy is to provide you with information on cookies, about how we make use of them and how they relate to your privacy online.

About Our cookies supporting your informed choice.
The detail contained on this page is provided to ensure you are fully aware of the cookies we use, allowing you to make an informed choice about your continued acceptance of cookies.

What are cookies?
Cookies are pieces of computer code that allow small amounts of information to be passed from your internet browser to our web server. They allow websites to recognize your PC, mobile, tablet or other device as you browse. For more detailed information about how cookies work, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Data passed by cookies will never contain your name, address, telephone number or payment details. We will never disclose your personal details to any third parties.

Why do we use cookies?
Cookies allow us to work our web analytics, Google Analytics, to see how you like to use our websites, which pages or special functions you prefer and help us to make them better. This helps us to continually improve our service.

Cookies we use;

Facebook cookies
These are only set if you click on the ‘share on Facebook’ button. Facebook uses cookies so it can tell when you are logged in and ensure that all its functions work accordingly for you; to learn more about how its users interact with Facebook and use social plug-ins so that it can improve its services; and to place relevant adverts on its own website. For more details, visit http://www.facebook.com/help/cookies

Twitter cookies
These are only set if you click on the ‘tweet this’ button. Twitter uses cookies to better understand how its services are used and to make inferences (from the websites you visit) about your interests so that it can recommend people you may like to follow on its services. For more details, visit https://twitter.com/privacy

YouTube cookies
These are only set if you view a video which is hosted on www.youtube.com. They collect information in an anonymous form about your preferences (which are inferred by the videos you watch) to ensure that the adverts displayed on other websites you visit are relevant to your interests. For more details, visit www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/ (YouTube is owned by Google)

Accounts.google cookies
These are only set if you click on the ‘Google+’ button (YouTube is owned by Google). They ensure that you can log into your account and that all functions work correctly while you are logged in. For more details, visit www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Google Adservices cookies
These are only set if you found our site through a sponsored ad on Google. They collect information in an anonymous form about what pages you visit and any information requests you make (such as completing our enquiry form or ordering a brochure). We use this information to help us improve our web pages and make our sponsored ads more relevant. The cookies are also used to place online adverts when you visit other websites that display advertising. Expire after 30 days. For more details, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics (which uses cookies), as a web analytics service, provided by Google, Inc (“Google”), to analyse the use of our website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Google will store this information. For more information see Google’s privacy policy and details of Google Analytics.