Cookies policy

Why do we use Cookies?

Our use of cookies is to primarily help enhance your user experience and to improve the efficiency of our website. We use certain cookies to remember you when you visit the website, to keep track of browsing patterns and to understand how visitors use the website site.‍

What are Cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. There are different types of cookies: some are essential for the site to operate properly, whereas others are aimed at enhancing and personalising your user experience. Cookies can help us to understand how you are interacting with our website, which helps us to improve our site and deliver a better service to you.

What Cookies do we use?

Strictly necessary Cookies

Generally, these cookies will be essential first-party session cookies. Not all first-party session cookies will fall into the strictly necessary category for the purposes of the respective cookie legislation. Strictly necessary cookies will generally be used to store a unique identifier to manage and identify the user as unique to other users currently viewing the website, in order to provide a consistent and accurate service to the user. These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember if you have agreed to our Application Terms of Use or if you have already replied to our cookie pop-up – so you won't be asked again.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. These are mainly technical cookies required by certain IT systems (e.g. maintain a secure session for you, during your visit).

Performance Cookies

These cookies generally collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and the pages that they don’t. This helps us to understand and improve the site so it is easy to use and includes helpful content. They allow us to fix bugs or glitches on the website. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies visitors, so we can’t identify you. For example, we use “Google Analytics” cookies (a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc).

• Application Terms of Use
  Description / purpose: They remember if you have agreed to (or refused) our Application Terms of Use
  Type of cookie: Strictly Necessary
  Duration: until deleted
• Google Analytics
  Description / purpose: They collect information about how visitors use our website
  Type of cookie: Performance Cookies
  Duration: 30 days

How to turn off Cookies?

You can turn off cookies at any time, by going into your browser settings, however this may have a detrimental effect on your user experience. If you are happy to continue letting us use cookies in the ways set out in this policy, to help us guide our work, then you need not do anything.