Cookies Policy

 

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 the site, 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.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

 

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


Cookie Purpose More information
Session Cookie

This cookie enables us to:

  1. Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted at your individual interests.
  2. Recognise you when you return to our site and track authorised and non-authorised users for the particular browsing session.
  3. Allow you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient. For example, if you register with us or complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim.
More info

HTTP Cookies set by Google Analytics, including:

_ga; _gat; _ _utma; _ _utmt; _ _utmb; _ _utmc; _ _utmz; _ _utmv

These cookies enable us to:

  • Distinguish users
  • Speed up your searches
  • Determine which domain to measure
  • Remember the number and time of previous visits
  • Remember traffic source information
  • Determine the start and end of a session
  • Remember the value of visitor-level custom variables
More info

Cookies set by integrated third-party social plugins (such as Facebook and Twitter)

 

These cookies enable us to:

  • Let users easily promote our site content to their social media connections
  • Enhance the experience of website visitors
More info: here and here

PHPSESSID


This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.


More info

__stripe_mid

and

__stripe_sid

This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any payment information on a server. More info: here and here 



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.

You 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 site.