Cookies
In common with many other commercial websites our Website may use a standard technology called a “cookie” to collect information about how you use the Website.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
We use cookies in the following ways:
- to help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our Website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests; and
- to track user traffic patterns to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information and to help us ensure that its structure is workable; and
- to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to determine the usefulness of our Website information.
You cannot be identified personally from a cookie. Cookies cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
You have the ability to accept or reject cookies by modifying the settings in your browser when it alerts you to its presence. To change your cookie setting within your Internet Explorer or to reject or request permission for cookies, click on Tools/Internet Options/Privacy. More information about cookies, including how to block them and/or delete them, can be found at www.aboutcookies.org
You do not need to have cookies turned on to use or navigate through many parts of our Website, however this may limit some of the functions available on the Website and you may not be able to use all the interactive features.