Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit most web pages, cookies do a number of things that help you to manage your web experience. The types of cookies that are set by our sites and what they do are listed below. The cookies set by our sites will be recognised each you visit that site.
Some features on our websites and in our mobile apps will not function if you do not allow cookies.
Not all the cookies described below are set by us. Some of our partners (for example, advertisers) may also set cookies.
You can find more general information about cookies at this website: www.allaboutcookies.org .
Our Cookies
We’ve categorised our cookies into 4 groups:
- Strictly Necessary
You need these cookies for our websites and mobile apps to work properly. For example, if there is a local element to this website, you’ll need these cookies to access it. - Performance
These cookies allow us to count the total amount of page visits and sources of traffic so we can measure and improve the performance of our sites and apps. They also enable us to see how users, on an anonymised aggregated basis, use our sites. - Functional
We use a number of social media tools (for example, Twitter, Facebook) to make our websites and mobile apps better and encourage visitor interaction. If you already use these social media platforms then their cookies may be set through our websites or mobile apps. They do this, not us – it allows data to be collected by these companies which enables them to serve adverts on other sites that they think are relevant to your interests. If you do not use social media tools, then you won’t pick up any of those kinds of cookies. - Personalisation
These cookies allow us to provide a high quality experience by customising our content offering to you across our sites. We might use the information collected by these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on the articles and other content you view when visiting any of our websites. They also help us manage our advertising for example, and assist our advertising partners in presenting more relevant advertising to you on our websites and in our mobile apps. They’ll do things like log when we have shown you an advert, so we don’t show it to you too often. If you have signed up to receive our newsletters or other communications, then the information we collect by using the cookies will be linked to your registered account, which will enable us to send you personalised emails, including content tailored to your browsing preferences, based on the articles and content you read on our site.
How we get your consent
The first time you visit this site after this policy becomes effective or at any other time after you have deleted our cookies from your device, you will be presented with a notice informing you that our sites use cookies. That notice will include a link to this policy. If you decide to continue through the sites after being presented with that notice, we will assume that we have your consent to set cookies as described in this policy.
You will be required to consent to the use of cookies during the registration process by ticking the box to accept the Cookie Policy. If at any time you wish to withdraw your consent, you can disable the personalisation cookie, but you may be asked again for your account login information and you will not receive personalised communications while the cookie is disabled.
The law does not require us to ask for your consent to use Strictly Necessary cookies. We will automatically set these cookies when you use the Site(s). If you delete or block these cookies, you will not be able to use some features of the Site(s).
Disabling or blocking cookies
You can delete cookies at any time using your internet browser settings and you can also set your browser so that cookies are automatically blocked and prevented from being set.
If you disable or block cookies, our websites may not function properly and you may not be able to use all of the features of our sites.
Third party advertising
Some of the advertising that is displayed on our Site is provided by third party advertisers and advertising networks. They may use cookies to ensure that particular advertisements are not shown to you too many times to collect information about the types of websites that you visit so that they can show you advertising that is relevant to your particular interests. Similarly, some of the advertising that is displayed on our Site may have been chosen for you based on your browsing on third party Sites. We do not set these cookies ourselves and so cannot control when and how they are set on your computer or other device. You can block, delete or disable them.