Cookies are small text files that are stored on a visitor’s computer and enable information to be remembered by a website during a visitor’s current visit and in some cases are stored to be used on future visits to a particular website.
Depending on the web browsing program used cookies can be deleted or disabled but this may prevent you from using the website in the way you expected. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
We do not use cookies to attempt to find out the identity of anyone visiting our website or to store any personal information about visitors. We only use cookies to help our site work as expected for visitors and to help us to maintain and develop our website by recording things such as the number of visitors via the use of a service called Google Analytics (more below).
When someone visits our website we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.
More information about how Google uses Analytics data is available on the Google support pages.
Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, we would suggest the following reference sites:
| Name of Cookie | Purpose | Strictly Necessary |
| cmplz_banner-status, cmplz_consented_services, cmplz_functional, cmplz_marketing, cmplz_policy_id, cmplz_preferences, cmplz_statistics | Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record your cookie preferences on our website. | Yes |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Used by our website software to determine if your browser supports cookies | Yes |
| Name of Cookie | Provider | Purpose |
| _ga, _gid, _gali, _gat | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users. Important: Google Analytics does not store any personal information about website users. Read the Google Analytics privacy document for more details. | |
| CLID, SM, clck, _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Used by Microsoft Clarity to track cookie consent and analytical data about our website. |
| Name of Cookie | Provider | Purpose |
| CONSENT, NID | Youtube |
We embed videos from YouTube using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain. This domain may set cookies on your computer when you arrive on a page containing an embedded YouTube video. The cookies do not directly identify individual users and YouTube will not store information to personalise your experience unless you are logged in to a Google account. If you have a Google account and are logged in, YouTube may set cookies for analytics and advertising purposes and collect data linked to your Google account. For more information, see the Google Privacy Policy. |
If you have any other queries about our use of cookies, then please feel free to contact us.
We use essential cookies which cannot be disabled as they are required to make our website work. We also use Analytical and Marketing cookies which will only be set if you accept this message using the button below. Alternatively, you can press the ‘Customise’ button to individually configure which cookies you would like to consent to.