What are cookies:

We and our business partners collect information about your use of our website through cookies. Cookies are information files stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone that help websites remember who you are and information about your visit. Cookies can help to display the information on a website in a way that matches your interests. Most major websites use cookies.

What cookies are used on this Website:

The cookies we and our business partners use on this website are broadly grouped into the following categories:

Essential - Some of the cookies on our website are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested. An example of this would be a cookie used to enable you to log into your account on the website. You may not be able to use our website without these cookies.

Analytics - We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our website. An example is counting the number of different people coming to our website or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited the website once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our website was performing and improve it without these cookies.

Social Sharing - We use cookies to allow you to share content directly on the social networking/sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Examples would be if you wanted to "like" or "tweet" about a business or product advertised on our website.

We use:

Persistent cookies – these are cookies that are stored until an expiry date set by the website or in your browser.

The different owners of cookies on our websites

Some of the cookies on our websites have been set by third parties. These cookies include those where:

• we show third-party content, such as YouTube videos
• a third party is providing a service, such as analysing the pages that visitors to our sites view or
• Third parties are responsible for any cookies they set. They are used to allow that third party to provide a service to us.

How to turn off cookies

You can turn off cookies in your browser settings. If you do turn them off, it is important to remember that you may not be able to use the services on our websites. You can find out more about turning off cookies at the independent website allaboutcookies.org

Please note that we can't always control third party cookies stored on your machine from our website and where this is the case you will need to visit the relevant third party's website directly to manage cookies stored on your machine by them