Cookie Policy 

1 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. 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. 

2 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, use a shopping cart or make use of e billing services. 

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. 

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 share information with third parties for this purpose. 

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie name or title	Purpose	More information
CookieYes consent cookie	Stores the user’s cookie consent preferences for this website.
CookieYes	Hosting and website service providers	Website hosting and technical infrastructure providers

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 and  we cannot accept any liability for the third party’s compliance with its legal obligations. These cookies  are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies: Google, Meta/Facebook and other analytics or advertising providers where such services are enabled on the website.

Advertising cookies can be de-activated by visiting the settings within your web browser and the cookie preference controls available on our website to  manage the use of these types of 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. 

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the expiry period set by the relevant cookie provider