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Our website, like lots of websites, uses cookies. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer, they help our website work better and you to have a more enjoyable browsing experience.

They improve things by:

  • remembering settings, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page.
  • remembering information, you’ve given so you don’t have to re-enter it.
  • measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs.

The cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. However, if you don’t want the cookies on your computer, you can manage and/or delete these small files as you wish.

To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit cookiepedia.co.uk

Our site also uses Google Analytics cookies:

_UTMA– This randomly generated number is used to determine unique visitors to our site – Expires after 2 years.

_UTMB– This randomly generated number works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time users spend on our site – Expires after 30 minutes.

_UTMC– This randomly generated number works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser – Expires when you close your browser.

_UTMZ– This is a randomly generated number and information about how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search) – Expires after 6 months.

_UTMV– This cookie lasts ‘forever’. It is a persistent cookie. It is used for segmentation and data experimentation.

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.