Privacy and Cookies

New EU regulations on the use by British websites of cookies as relayed by the UK’s information commissioner require that we gain your consent for the use of cookies on our website. The rules were relaxed just before their introduction and now websites can assume that users have consented to their use.

We use cookies to help us to monitor and improve our website. No personal information is collected and we use this information to gauge the popularity of our web pages and total number of visitors and the countries they are from. We DO NOT use cookies to steer users to advertising of any kind.

If this is a concern then we would recommend that you change your cookie settings via your browser, your browser help function will tell you how.

What are browsers?

Browsers are the programmes used to access web pages. Examples are: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, iCab, Cyberdog etc.

Note: Our website will still work without cookies but if you disable cookies our website will think you are a new visitor every time you visit us and whenever you move to a new page on the site.

What is in a cookie?

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.

Consent: By using our website you are agreeing to the use of cookies as described.