Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

Make our website work as you'd expect.

Remember your settings during and between visits.

Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising).

Understand visitor trends and demographics to help us develop the site.

Improve the speed/security of the site.

Continuously improve our website for you.

We do not use cookies to:

Collect any personally identifiable information.

Collect any sensitive information.

Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.

Granting us permission to use cookies

By using our website, you agree to that we may set the below documented cookies on your computer/device. If you do not want to have these cookies set on your computer, you must stop visiting our site, and follow our instructions below on clearing your cookies from your browser.

More about our Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including remembering your search and session settings.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

Google - Privacy Policy

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

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called "analytics" programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use:

Google Analytics - Privacy Policy owned by Google

Advertising Cookies

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work to accepted privacy standards such as http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/iab-good-practice-principles

You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.

We use:

Adsense - Privacy Policy owned by Google

Banner Adverts

We fund our site by showing adverts as you browse our site. These adverts are usually managed by a partner specialising in providing adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visits so they can personalise the adverts to you, ensure that you don't see the same adverts too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on which adverts are working. Our partners include:

Adsense - Privacy Policy owned by Google

Deleting Cookies Set By This Site

If you no longer wish to use our site, and delete all cookies set by our site (or third parties), you can follow the instructions for your browser below to clear your cookies:

How To Delete Cookies

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.