What is a cookie?

 

A cookie is a tiny information file that is downloaded onto your computer, tablet or smartphone when you access a website.  

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What are cookies for?

 

Most websites use cookies because they streamline and enhance the browsing experience.

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Cookies can:

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• Speed up and simplify the interaction between users and the website

• Remember user preferences during and between visits

• Provide essential functionality (e.g. a shopping bag if the website is an online shop)

• Give the website owner useful user statistics to help them better understand their audience

• Perform numerous other functions such as enhanced security

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Our use of cookies on this website

 

By accepting the cookie alert banner or using our website you consent to the use of the following cookies:

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Wix cookies

This website is built using Wix, who may use cookies and similar tracking technologies throughout their services for stability, security, functionality, and performance. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site. Here is a list of cookies Wix uses.

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Google Analytics

Google Analytics is an analytics tool that helps website owners better understand how visitors engage with their websites. 

We use Google Analytics to provide us with information about how our website is used, such as how visitors navigate the site, and which pages are the most popular.

The data gathered is anonymous and cannot be used to identify individual users.

If you would like prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics you can use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on tool. And here is the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

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Third-party functionality

Our site, like many, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.

 

Our site includes the following which use cookies:

 

Google Maps (read about how Google uses cookies)

Social website links. When you like, share, or click through to a social media profile cookies may be set by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn etc. The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks. Here is the cookie policy for Facebook.

 

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.   

 

 

What we DON’T use cookies for

 

• We don’t use cookies to gather personal data such as names or email addresses.

• Only the information that you provide, or the choices you make while visiting a website, can be stored in a cookie.

• Allowing a website to create a cookie does not give it, or any other website, access to the rest of your computer.

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How to control your use of cookies

 

Most web browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer and Firefox etc. enable you to allow, delete, block and otherwise control cookies.

 

The Aboutcookies.org website is a useful resource on all things cookie-related and tells you how to control and delete cookies.