• Single Session Cookies: are temporary cookies which only exist when you use the website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after using the website). Session cookies help our websites remember your movement from page to page and what you chose on the previous page, avoiding the need to re-enter information and enabling us to improve your overall experience and the performance of our site.
• Permanent or ‘Remember Me’ Cookies: stay on your device after you’ve visited our website.  They enable the site to remember your personal preferences such as log in details in order to improve the user experience for example by avoiding you having to re-enter these details on each visit to our Site.
• Global Session Cookies: enable us to collect information such as the number of visitors to our Site, links clicked on, the links you used to come to our Site from and pages visited, in order to analyse user behaviour. [This information is collected in an anonymous form] [and will be collated with similar information received from other users to enable us to compile reports in order to develop and improve user experience by displaying more tailored and relevant content for example.] [We might use these cookies to highlight articles, services available within this Site or adverts that we believe may be of interest to you.]
• E-marketing Cookies: enables us to collect information about the links to web pages that you may click and your activity on “view as a page” so that we can personalise the page in the same way as the email.]

We respect your right to privacy so you can choose not to allow [some types of] cookies. If you consent to use of cookies, you are free to change your mind at any time.  Please note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.

If you want to restrict or block the cookies we set, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘help’ function within your browser should tell you how.  Alternatively, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on cookies on a wide variety of browsers. You’ll also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer. To learn about controlling cookies on the browser of your mobile device please refer to your handset manual.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below: