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Published on: Tuesday February 4, 2020

Like most websites, we use cookies on our site to improve the user experience. These include, for example, cookies for analytics that tell us how people are using the site to help us improve the information we provide.

A cookie is a small text file containing information that a web site transfers to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. A cookie cannot give us access to your computer or to your personal information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies; consult your browser’s manual or online help if you want information on restricting or disabling the browser’s handling of cookies. If you disable cookies, you can still view the information on our web site, but the functionality of certain areas may be reduced.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. We only use session cookies on this website.

Cookies we use on this website

(a) Authentication
We use cookies to identify admin login via the log in page: Cookies generated include wordpress_sec_*
This handles login for website admins. (Session cookie)

(b) Status 
We use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website
Cookies used for this purpose are: wordpress_logged_in_* (Session cookie)

(c) Security
We use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally. (Session cookie)

(d) Analysis
We use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. (Session cookie)

Managing cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

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