Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
Cookies can be categorised as follows:
Essential cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of a website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies
They allow sites to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around a website when they are using it. This helps to improve the way a website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies help measure and improve site performance using a service provided by Google Analytics and Omniture.
Functionality cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to a website. This enables a website to personalise content for users, greet users by name and remember user preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies
These cookies record a visit to a website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information can be used to make a website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to a users interests. A website may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
How we use Cookies
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Expiry | Issuer | Purpose |
Type cookie |
| _ga | Generated by Google for website analytics. | Analytical | ||
| _gat | 1 day | Generated by Google for website analytics. | Analytical | |
| _gid | 2 days | Generated by Google for website analytics. | Analytical | |
| CMSESSION | End of session | Our website | Generated by our website so it can manage logged in users. | Essential |
Third Party Cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Blocking Cookies
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire when they are no longer necessary.
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or general privacy matters, please refer to our Privacy Policy for contact details.