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Use of Cookies
We reserve the right to use cookies as an anonymous method of recording your usage of our site and would ask that if you do not wish to have cookies recorded on your machine, you amend the settings on your browser to prevent them from being created.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
Two types of cookies may be used on this website:
  • Session Cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site
  • Persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
How we use cookies
We only utilise session cookies within our site as a means of identifying users and therefore cookies must be enabled to fully utilise our site. No personal or tracking information is stored within them, or passed to us. Some of the links within our site may direct you to external sites, not under our control, which may utilise either session or persistent cookies.
If we do use cookies for holding personal information, details of what information they gather will be detailed here.
How to find and control your cookies
Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. If you decide not to receive cookies it may limit your use of our website and services.
Below are the instructions on how to find your cookie settings:
Internet Explorer 7 Firefox Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 5 or 5.5
Choose Tools, then Internet Options
Click on the Privacy tab
Click on Advanced
Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.
Choose Tools, then Options
Click on Privacy settings
Check the cookie settings as required.
Choose Tools, then Internet Options
Click on the Privacy tab
Click on Custom Level
Click on Advanced
Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.
Choose Tools, then Internet Options
Click on the Security tab
Click on Custom Level
Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.
For more information about how to find and accept/reject cookies please read your browser help manual