What is a cookie?

‘Cookies’ are small text files that websites may place on your computer, mobile device or tablet. They’re used to remember what you have done on a website in order to improve your browsing experience, to help remember log-ins, or to provide advertising while visiting a particular site.

Our Policy

It’s simple.

We ONLY use cookies to deliver a smooth experience to our website visitors and to understand how visitors use our websites. We do this because we want you to have a great experience browsing our sites, so we can provide you with relevant content and so that we can continually improve the service we provide you.

You can decide whether to accept or reject cookies from us – it’s your choice.

Why we use them?
We use different types of cookies for different functions.

Cookies help us identify which of our articles or documents are the most popular and what type of journey a visitor has through our sites. After we don’t want to spend a lot of time publishing things no-one is interested in.

We don’t pass this information to third parties.

Do I have a choice over the use of cookies?

Yes. There are a number of options available. You can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to only allow “trusted” sites to set them, or to accept only those cookies from those websites which you are using at that moment.

Some of the functionality of our website will be lost if you delete all cookies.

All of the ‘popular’ browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. To help you better understand these settings, the following links may be helpful to you, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details..

Chrome
Internet Explorer 5
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 7 & 8
Internet Explorer 9
Internet Explorer 10
Firefox
Safari

We recommend visiting www.aboutcookies.org. for more information about cookies and how to manage them.