A cookie is a piece of text that is stored on your computer by your web browser. We use cookies to monitor how people use our site. This helps us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our website so we can develop and improve the design, layout and more relevant content.

How they work
When you visit a site that uses cookies for the first time, a cookie is downloaded onto your computer. The next time you visit that site, your computer checks to see if it has a cookie that is relevant and if so sends the information contained in that cookie back to the site. The Cookie comes from the website itself.

How we use cookies
The cookies used on our website is classified based on the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) guide for cookie categories. We only use performance cookies.

The benefits of cookies
By using cookies, a site 'knows' that you have been there before. We only use performance cookies supplied by Google analytics to provide anonymous statistics on website usage solely for us, they are not shared or passed on to any third party. We use these statistics purely to improve the website. The cookies on our site record how long you spend on each page, the most popular pages, what links are clicked, and how you found us.

Control your cookies
Almost all web browsers allow you the option to block cookies. That means you can block all cookies or you can choose which ones to accept. This can however make browsing difficult - some sites do not work or work less well with cookies turned off. For instructions on how to manage your cookie privacy setting in your browser see our section on cookie browser options.

Further information can be found on ICC Cookie Guide