What are cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer or other mobile or handheld device (such as smart phones or tablets) when you visit certain web pages.

Cookies are essential to the effective operation of our website and to enable you to interact with us online. 

What do cookies do?

Cookies do lots of different things, like letting you navigate between pages effectively, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. 

If our website did not use cookies, you would appear to be a new visitor every time you moved to a different webpage; for example, after entering your log in details and moving to another page the website wouldn't recognise you and would ask you to log in again.

Some other examples of what cookies can do include:

• Analyticial cookies recording the areas of our website that you have visited and for how long. We use this information to help us improve our website so that it is easy to use and so we can improve the services we provide to our customers.

Are cookies safe?

Yes cookies are 100% safe. Cookies do not harm your computer, they do not contain any information that could be used by others to identify you personally and they do not contain any confidential information, such as your email address or payment details.

Current Cookies.

For a full list of the current cookies used on this site you can see the full list here. And you can manage each one in the Cookies Settings page.