COOKIES POLICY
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We use a variety of cookies to tailor and optimise your experience of this site.
Last updated: June 2024
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Use of cookies
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What are cookies
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How we use cookies
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Links to other sites
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How you can control your cookies
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Use of Cookies
The aim of this site is to be interesting, helpful, and informative. We’re keen to find out what you do and don't like and your feedback plays a key role in helping us to improve your user experience. We use many techniques to follow your use of the site and provide you with a customised experience, the primary of which being through the use of 'cookies'.
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What are Cookies
Cookies are small data files that websites use to collect basic information about you and your use of that website. This information is then used in turn to optimise the website and your user experience.
Some cookies enable sites to work, while others help you to learn about what people are browsing for on your site.
For example, a cookie can remember the items that you have placed into a shopping basket, or it can ensure you get the offer you requested. These are known as ‘session’ cookies, which expire as soon as you leave the site.
Other cookies can tell someone if you come back more than once to their website. These are ‘persistent cookies’, which typically expire 3 years after your last visit unless you delete them from your device earlier.
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How we Use Cookies
We use cookies to ensure you get the most from your visit to this website. They improve your experience of the site because certain features work best with cookies. Feedback and information from the cookies can also help us to make the website better. By visiting this site, you agree to our use of cookies and other technologies. Rest assured that the cookies we use do not store personal details, such as payment card numbers. Here are the main types of cookies we use and what they do:
a) Strictly necessary / essential - These cookies enable you to get the information or service you’ve asked for. They’re essential – without them, some services may not work.
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b) Targeting or marketing cookies - These cookies collect information about your browsing habits which are then used to supply you with targeted and personalised online advertising and marketing. They remember if you have visited a website and share this information with advertisers. They enable us to ensure that the content we provide on our site, is aligned to your browsing habits.
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c) Functional cookies - These cookies remember choices you’ve made to personalise the site. They may remember where you are so you can get tailored information, or remember changes you have made to help you browse, such as increasing the text size.
For example, if you ask for services based on your location, we sometimes store a cookie so that next time you visit, you won’t have to tell us again.
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d) Performance / analytical cookies - These cookies collect information about the pages you visit, where you go most often and whether you see error messages. The information is only used to ensure our website works well. For example, we gather information to diagnose problems and issues. We then use it to make improvements and fix errors.
A specific list of cookies we use on this site can be found below.
Google Analytics_ga - Analytics - Duration 1 year - This cookie is used to calculate visitors, session, campaign data, and keep track of site usage for our site analytics reporting. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
Google Analytics_gid - Analytics - Duration 1 day - This cookie is used to store information on how visitors use our website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is performing. The data collected included the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages they visited (data is all stored anonymously).
Google Analytics_gat - Performance - Duration 1 minute - This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate and limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Wix_XSRF-TOKEN - Necessary - This cookie is set by Wix website building platform and is used for security purposes.
Wix_hs - Necessary - This cookie is set by Wix website building platform and is used for security purposes.
Wix_svSession - Analytics - 2 years - This cookie is set by Wix website building platform and is used to identify unique visitors to the website.
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Links to Other Sites
We often link off to other sites to help provide you with extra information or services. For example, to make it easy for you to share information with your family and friends, we provide links to Instagram and other popular social media or book-marking sites. But remember, these sites may use cookies that we do not control so be sure to check how they use your information.
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How you Can Control Your Cookies
If cookies are disabled on your device, you will still be able to use most of this site. However, it may limit what you can do.
How you manage your cookies depends on your browser. If you would like to know more about cookies you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies which explains in detail how they can work and can be managed.