Cookie Policy

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This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the ICO website which offers guidance for all modern browsers

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I may use cookies for the following purposes:

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• authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

• status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;

• personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you;

• security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

• advertising – we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you;

• analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services;

• cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

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Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit my website

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I use Google Analytics to analyse the use of my website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of my website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

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Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

• https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

• http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

• https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

• https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

 

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

 

If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on my website.