What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites save to your computer. The cookies used by our website don't contain any of your personal information, and we can't use them to find out who you are. These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• remembering settings, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page;

• remembering information you’ve given (e.g. your postcode) so you don’t need to keep entering it;

• measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs. 

How to control & delete cookies

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit the About Cookies website, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.

• Cookies: Frequently Asked Questions;

• How to control cookies;

• How to delete cookies

Please be aware that restricting cookies may have an impact upon the functionality of our website.

Third-party Cookies

We want to provide interesting and engaging content on our website. On a number of pages we use 'plug ins' or embedded media. The suppliers of these services may also set cookies on your device when you visit the pages where we have used this type of content. These are known as 'third-party' cookies.

Third party cookies through Twitter & YouTube

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.

Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. 

We embed feeds from Twitter on this site. Twitter may use cookies to better understand how you interact with their services, to monitor aggregate usage by Twitter users and web traffic routing to their services. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases, this may impact your ability to use Twitter.

Read more at Twitter’s Privacy Policy.