Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. We do not set any cookies that store information about your personal details. We use Google Analytics on our site which uses cookies to store visitor data and trends for it analytics services (which let us view data about our website use and visitors). To see the data that Google Analytics uses please refer to The Google Privacy Policy.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. The software that this website uses also uses cookies but again these don’t store any personal information and are session cookies only. Session cookies allow users to be recognized within a website so any page changes or item or data selection you do is remembered from page to page.
How you can control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see AboutCookies.org.
You can delete all the cookies already on your computer and you can set most browsers to block them being placed. But if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit the site.
Opt-out
In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None
For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.
http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Disabling Cookies
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies
Apple Safari: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32467
| Category | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
| Visitor Analytics | _ga | Used to see how website users navigate the site. | 2 Years |
| Visitor Analytics | _gat | Used to see how website users navigate the site. | Until you close the browser |
| Visitor Analytics | _gid | Used to see how website users navigate the site. | 1 Day |
| System | catAccCookies | Used by the Cookie plugin to check that your response is remembered | Until you close the browser |
