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 file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. 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, page registration, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, which require registration.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They 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. We use Google Analytics.
- Functionality cookies. These can be 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, the email newsletters to which you have subscribed).
- 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 use Smart AdServer. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Third-party advertising
Some of the advertisements that appear on our site may contain code from third parties. These third parties create cookies so that they can understand how many people have seen an advertisement across all the websites on which it appeared. We do not share any of our user information with third parties so the information they gather through these cookies is entirely anonymous and will be viewed at an aggregated rather than an individual level.
Social networks and sharing sites
On some pages on our site you will see buttons that allow you to share items of interest through social networks such as Facebook.com and other sites that enable sharing such as Digg.com. These buttons may also create cookies within your browsers.
Managing your cookie settings
To enable or disable cookies, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the ‘Help’, ‘Tools’ or ‘Edit’ facility). Alternatively you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org which provide information about cookies and how to manage them.
It is important that you understand that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access secure areas of this website, for example any online services that require registration.
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March 2015
