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You can learn more about the cookies we use below.
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
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So you can easily "Like" or "Share" our content on Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
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ShareThis | Allows you to"Like" or "Share" our content on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks | This provides us with lots of sharing buttons in one neat package. |
The privacy implications will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
We use analytical performance cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at and how they navigate around the site when they are using it. This helps us to continuously improve our website and direct people to what they are looking for in an efficient manner. These so called "analytics" programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
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Google Analytics (_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz) | We use these cookies to collect information about how visitors use the Website, in order to help us improve the Website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Website, where visitors have come to the Website from and the pages they visited. | Further information about these cookies is available at google.com/analytics. |
These allow us to link your actions when accessing the Website during a single browser session to allow you to use the website most efficiently. Session cookies expire at the end of a browser session, that is when you exit your browser.
We do not use persistent cookies.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting those cookies considered to be invasive.