Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by
enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a
‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing
your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the
interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies,
it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for
example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognise
you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing
messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.

Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set
by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s
server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each
cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a
unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to
remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.

How do we use Cookies?
We use cookies to enable you to move around the site, to provide certain basic features and
to enhance the functionality of the website. We also use cookies to help us to improve the
performance of our website to provide you with a better user experience. We also use
cookies to enable us to target our Facebook and Google marketing activities efficiently, and
to measure the effectiveness of our website and digital marketing activity through Google
Analytics.

We don’t sell the information collected by cookies except where required by law (for
example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).

Managing Cookies
You can choose to disable cookies. To find out to do this for the most popular web browsers, please visit the links below:

Google Chrome

Internet Explorer

Firefox