Cookie Information

We are committed to privacy and support current industry initiatives to preserve individual privacy rights on the Internet. Protecting your privacy on-line is an evolving area and this website will constantly evolve to meet these demands.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that get put on your computer by websites as you surf them.  These cookies can store lots of information which can have privacy implications.  We think all the cookies used on this site are innocuous but that’s for you to judge.  Some of our web pages utilise "cookies". A "cookie" is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about web site activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a web user. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them.

Note: Some cookies are necessary for the operation of our website, if you choose to block them some aspects of the site may not work for you. Non necessary cookies are only set when you have given your explicit consent to their use. Such cookies included those set by our statistics package Google Analytics.

FaceBook and Twitter

Social Media sites all use cookies to allow you to log in, if you visit our site while logged in to twitter or facebook you will be able to post using your account you if you do not wish to be able to post on here then please log out of your account before your visit.   note: you will have signed an agreement with twitter and facebook and are bound by their terms and conditions in regards to their cookies.

Anonymous tracking software (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics (like virtually everybody)  this is a service provided by Google.  It helps us gather anonymous data of how people are using this site and then provide us with visitor statistics, details of page views etc etc.

If you are anti-Google you can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout (we would prefer you didn’t as this data is helpful to us in improving our website to provide you with a better experience!)

The cookies which Google places on your computer are called: _utma, _utmb, _utmc and _utmz, _qca.

We also use some cookies on our website which is a very useful piece of technology which allows the design process to go a lot smoother. These are cookies stored during your visit however they only stay on your computer for the duration that your using the website. The cookie which is stored on your computer whilst you use the portal is called ' PHPSESSID'. We know, it doesn't sound delicious at all!

Here is a bit more information about the cookie we place on your computer should you use the portal:

More information:
Facebook's privacy policy on social plugins: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Twitter's privacy policy on cookies and information sharing: https://twitter.com/privacy.

We embed videos from our YouTube channel using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube's embedding videos information page: http://www.google.com/support/