Cookies

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

(1) What information may we collect from you?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, emailing us, posting material or subscribing to our newsletter.
Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
We use IP Address tracking technology to identify businesses visiting our site and the pages that are being used.
Any other information that you choose to send to us.

(2) Cookies

Our website uses cookies. By continuing to use our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

(a) About cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by a web browser that hold information about your visits to our site. Cookies perform many different tasks within our website, which we will outline below. But their key purpose is to help us provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, and allow us to improve our site. For more information on cookies, visit the official ICO website at www.ico.gov.uk

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

(b) How we use cookies

There are four types of cookies we use on our site. Here’s how and why we use them.

(e) Blocking cookies
Most browsers will allow you to refuse to accept cookies. In order to do this please refer to your browser vendor’s help documentation.

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use some of the functionality on this website.

(f) Deleting cookies
Most browsers will allow you to refuse to delete cookies stored on your computer. In order to do this please refer to your browser vendor’s help documentation.

Obviously, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.