Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise your browser, remember certain settings and support the way its pages and features operate.

Some cookies are temporary and are removed when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.

Similar technologies, such as local storage and tracking pixels, may also be used for functions that are comparable to cookies. References to cookies in this policy include these technologies where relevant.

2. Why We Use Cookies

Cookies may be used to support the operation, security and usability of our website. Depending on the features enabled, they may help us to:

• Keep essential website functions working correctly.
• Remember your cookie preferences.
• Maintain the security and stability of website sessions.
• Understand general website usage and identify technical issues, where permitted.
• Improve page performance and the browsing experience, where permitted.

We do not use non-essential cookies simply because someone visits the website. Where consent is required, those cookies will only be activated after you have made the relevant choice.

3. Types of Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website or a service you have requested to function properly. They may support security, page navigation, session management and the storage of your cookie choices.

Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent where they meet the applicable legal exemption. They cannot normally be disabled through the website’s cookie preference settings, although you may be able to block them through your browser. Doing so may affect website functionality.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember choices or settings to make future visits more convenient. For example, they may help retain a preference selected during an earlier visit.

These cookies will only be used where the required consent has been obtained.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies may help us understand how visitors use the website, such as which pages receive visits, how visitors navigate between pages and whether technical errors occur.

Any analytics cookies that are not strictly necessary will only be placed after you have given consent. Where possible, information will be used in aggregated form to assess general website performance.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Advertising or marketing cookies may be used by third-party services to measure campaign performance or understand interactions with promotional content.

We will not activate non-essential advertising or marketing cookies unless the appropriate consent has been obtained. If these technologies are not enabled on our website, no such cookies will be placed through our services.

4. Cookie Categories at a Glance

The categories above describe possible cookie functions. The actual cookies used depend on the website features and services enabled at the time of your visit.

5. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are set directly by the website you are visiting. They may be used to support essential functions and remember your preferences.

Third-party cookies are set by external services that may operate through parts of a website. These services can include website hosting, security, analytics or embedded content providers.

Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies. We do not control every aspect of their systems or their independent data practices.

Where third-party technologies require consent, they will only be enabled after you have provided the appropriate permission.

6. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies may be classified according to how long they remain active:

• Session cookies: These are temporary and generally expire when you close your browser.
• Persistent cookies: These remain for a defined period or until you remove them manually.

The retention period varies according to the purpose of each cookie and the provider responsible for it. We aim to keep cookie lifetimes proportionate to their intended function.

You can remove stored cookies at any time through your browser settings. Deleting cookies may also remove previously saved preferences.

7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Where a cookie preference tool is available, you can use it to accept or reject non-essential cookie categories. You may also be able to change your selection later through the cookie settings option provided on the website.

Rejecting optional cookies will not prevent you from accessing the main website, although certain optional features may not work as intended.

Strictly necessary cookies may continue to operate because they support essential website functions.

8. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to review, block or delete cookies through their privacy or security settings. The available controls vary depending on the browser and device.

You can usually find these options in the browser’s settings under sections such as Privacy, Security or Site Data.

If you choose to block all cookies, certain website functions may become unavailable or may not operate correctly.

9. Withdrawing Your Consent

You can withdraw or change your consent to non-essential cookies at any time. If a cookie preference tool is available on the website, use it to update your choices.

Withdrawing consent does not make the use of cookies before withdrawal unlawful. However, we will stop using the relevant non-essential cookies going forward and, where appropriate, take steps to remove or disable them.

Cookies already stored on your device may need to be deleted through your browser settings.

10. Personal Information and Cookies

Some cookies may collect information that can identify or relate to an individual, either directly or when combined with other information. Depending on the technology used, this may include device information, browser details, approximate usage information or online identifiers.

Where cookie-related information constitutes personal data, it will be handled in accordance with applicable UK data protection requirements and our Privacy Policy.

We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information collected through cookies is used only for appropriate purposes and is not retained longer than necessary.

11. Data Sharing and International Transfers

Where third-party cookie providers are used, certain technical or usage information may be processed by those providers to deliver their services.

If personal data is transferred outside the United Kingdom, appropriate safeguards will be considered and applied where required by applicable data protection law.

Further information about how personal information is handled, including applicable rights and contact arrangements, is available in our Privacy Policy.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when website features, technologies or legal requirements change.

Any revised version will be published on this page. We encourage you to review it periodically so that you remain informed about how cookies are used.

13. Legal and Regulatory Information

This policy is intended to reflect applicable UK requirements relating to cookies, privacy and personal data, including the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), where applicable.

Non-essential cookies will not be used without the required consent. Consent should be freely given, specific, informed and communicated through a clear affirmative action.

You are not required to accept optional cookies as a condition of using the main website.

14. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on our website, you can contact us using the details below.