Let's talk cookies! Sadly not the chocolate chip kind. This is our cookie policy.

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.
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website.
We use cookies on this website to:

• recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);
• obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
• carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our visitor requirements and interests;
• target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests; and
• make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain your personal data. Although we may obtain information about your computer or other electronic device such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally. In certain circumstances we may collect personal information about you—but only where you voluntarily provide it (eg by completing an online form).
We use the following types of cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Analytical or 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.
Apart from in the case of strictly necessary cookies, we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website.
First and third party cookies
First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by another website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use third party cookies on our website and details of these are included in the table below.

More detail about our cookies
The following are the cookies we use and why:

is_mobile: This cookie is used to detect how you are browsing the website. If you are using a smartphone then you will see a mobie version of the site. This is deleted (expires) when you leave the website.
language: This cookie is used to store the language preference of the user.
gdpr-kb: We are investigating this. This appears to be created by Weebly.
_ga: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage of the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collection including the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
_gat: This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites
_snow_ses.8efe: This cookie is installed by Weebly. It is used to store anonymous information about you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website.
_snow_id.8efe: This cookie is installed by Weebly. It is used to store anonymous information about you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website.
sp: We are investigating this. This appears to be created by Weebly.
YouTube cookies:  We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

How to turn off cookies or alter settings
You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by going to the cookie consent mechanism and changing the relevant setting to ‘off’. (We are in the process of setting this up and if this is not currently in place and you wish to prevent cookies, please change your browser settings.)
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can also change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after one year.

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