Cookie Usage Information
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to control how the pages look and to remember your preferences and choices. They are also used to control access to secure parts of the website and for some advanced functionality.
We also use cookies via Google Analytics in order to track the usage of our site. It is important to to aid in improving and maintaining our website. When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
All of the cookies we set are anonymous and session based (unless noted) and
we hold no personal information in any of our cookies.
Some of the services we use to display adverts may also set cookies. The adverts are important to us for revenue but can be removed using an ad-blocker or disabling cookies. For more information regarding the adverts click adchoices icon on corner of the advert.
If you do not wish to use cookies then please disable them using your browser settings.
Cookies used by this website
Listed here are all the cookies that we use to manage website delivery to your browser:
Cookies created by us:
- session - Used to identify your visit and track you between pages. We use this information to display your search results and to allow you to login to secure areas of the site.
Cookies created by our website usage tracking software:
- __utma, __utmb, __utmc and __utmz
These cookies are all used togther to record statistics about the usage of the website. For more detailed information please see the
Google Analytics cookie information.
Cookies created by user interface optimisation software:
- optimizelyBuckets, optimizelyEndUserId, optimizelyPendingLogEvents - Optimizely cookies to configure the user interface (UI) that is show to you. We display alternate UI to different people in order to see which works best.
More information can be found on
Optimizely's cookie usage page.
More information about cookies
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