Cookies Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are pieces of information that a website places on your device when you visit a website. Cookies may involve the transmission of information from us to you and from you directly to us, to another party on our behalf. We may use cookies to bring together information we collect about you. You can choose to have your device warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that make your experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly. Please see the last section of this Cookies Policy for more information about how to manage or disable browser cookies.

We use several categories of cookies and each performs different functions. You can learn more about cookies and their functions generally by visiting an information website like allaboutcookies.org.

What categories of cookies may be used?

The cookies that may be used on this website fall into the three categories described below. These descriptions can help you determine if and how you would like to interact with our websites and other online services.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to navigate this website and use certain features. Without these strictly necessary cookies, the full experience of this website cannot be provided.

Performance cookies

We may place our performance cookies on your device. The information collected using our performance cookies is used by us or for our benefit, to improve our website experience or for other statistics gathering purposes.

Our performance cookies are used to generate aggregated, anonymous information about how you and other users use this website and its features. For instance, our performance cookies collect information about which pages on this website you visit most often, if you open or read the communications we send, or if you receive any error messages. The information collected may be used to improve users’ online experience generally, to collate statistics, or customise your online experience. Our performance cookies don’t collect information that identifies you personally.

You can delete or manage performance cookies as instructed in the last section of this Cookies Policy.

Functionality cookies

We may place our functionality cookies on your device. We do not share information collected using our functionality cookies with any advertisers or other third parties.

Our functionality cookies are used to remember choices you make (the completion of a form or other online settings) and provide the personalised or enhanced features that you select. Our functionality cookies can be used to provide online services to you, or to prevent online services from being offered to you if you previously indicated you did not want to receive such services. Our functionality cookies collect anonymous information.

If you delete these functionality cookies, any preferences or settings you selected will not be retained for later visits.

Disabling/enabling cookies via your browser

There are a number of ways for you to manage cookies and other tracking technologies. Through your browser settings, you can accept or decline cookies or set your browser to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. You should be aware that you may not be able to use all our interactive features if you set your browser to disable cookies entirely.

If you use different computers in different locations you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your preferences.

You can delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. The various browsers provide different procedures to manage your settings. Click on any of the browser links below for instructions.

If you are not using any of the above-listed browsers, then you should select “cookies” in the “Help” function for information on where to find your cookie folder.

Where can you find more information about cookies

You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites: