Our website uses cookies, unique identifiers and other similar technologies (together referred to as “cookies”) to provide our services to you and to help collect data. Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website and remember your preferences when you return to our website, providing you with an optimal browsing experience. Cookies also help us to improve our website.

By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies and this Cookies Policy.

Definition – A cookie is a small file containing letters and numbers that is saved to your computer’s hard disk when you visit a website.

Different cookies are used to perform different functions. We use the following cookies:

• Necessary cookies – These cookies are essential for us to use in order to operate our website. They include (but are not restricted to), cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of our website.
• Performance cookies – These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website. This helps us to improve the way our website performs e.g. ensuring our clients are able to find what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies – These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website and enable us to personalise our content for you.
• Targeting cookies – These cookies record your visit to our website and the pages and links you have visited and clicked. We use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. Our servers automatically obtain your domain name and IP address. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you accessed our website.

Please note that third parties (including but not restricted to advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

You can choose to enable and disable cookies on your web browser. By default, your browser will accept cookies. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You can refer to the web browsers documentation to find exactly how to do this. It is worth noting that if you block all cookies on your web browser (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website, and some of the features and functionality of our website may not be accessible to you.

If you want to know more about cookies, please visit ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies.

Last updated: 10 April 2022