Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful, and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer, mobile phone, or tablet. These are known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

This website does not set any cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.

What are cookies?

Cookies are used to improve services for you by:

  • measuring how many people are using services, so that popular services can be made easier and faster to use.
  • analysing anonymous data to help us understand how people interact with government services so we can make them better.
What do cookies look like?

If you click on a cookie, you’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the website server that gave you the cookie.

How we use cookies

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. This website uses a variety of cookies including third party analytics (Google Analytics) to provide anonymous visitor statistics to enable us to improve the performance of our website. This analytics function sets its own cookie to perform this service. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This information cannot be used to identify who you are, and we do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data. View the Google Privacy Policy by visiting the following link: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=uk

Disclosure of Information

We may share your information with selected third parties including:

  • Analytics, our appointed advertising agency, and website management providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

Note this website does not set any cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. We will not provide your data to any third-party source for marketing purposes without your consent.

How we use cookies
  • To administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes.
  • To improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so.
  • As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.
  • To comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject.
Granting us permission to use cookies

By clicking the accept button on the cookie prompt on our site and the continued use of the site we take to mean that you are happy with the use of cookies.

Turning off cookies

Your browser will have settings to toggle the acceptance of cookies.

To amend your browser settings in relation to the acceptance of cookies please visit the following link: https://cookies.insites.com/disable-cookies/

Turning off cookies will prevent some functions of the site from providing the experience they were designed to provide.