
Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
How do cookies benefit you?
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect to Save you having to log-in every time you visit the site Remember your settings during and between visits Improve the speed/security of the site Continuously improve our website for you Make our marketing more efficient
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission) Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission) Pass data to advertising networks Pass personally identifiable data to third parties Pay sales commissions Granting us permission to use cookies
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.
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not Remembering your search settings Allowing you to add comments to our site (Ask the Network, Ask an Expert) There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which uses cookies:
- YouTube – Privacy Policy powers the videos on our site Google – Privacy Policy
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Anonymous visitor statistics cookies.We use 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, etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called “analytics” programs also tell us if, 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.
We use Google Analytics.
Turning cookies offYou can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so, however, will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that you 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 cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
To learn more about how to reject cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or go to the help menu within your internet browser. If you experience any problems having deleted cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.
Opting out of Analytical Performance CookiesIf you would like to opt-out of Analytics cookies, please do so by clicking on the links below: Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Opting-out of Behavioural Advertising Cookies.If you would like to disable “third party” cookies generated by advertisers or providers of targeted advertising services, you can turn them off by going to the third party’s website and getting them to generate a one-time “no thanks” cookie that will stop any further cookies being written to your machine. Here are links to the main third party advertising platforms we use, each of which has instructions on how to do this:
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
http://www.audiencescience.com/consumers
http://www.admeld.com/privacy/
You can find out how to decline other online behavioural advertising by visiting:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
LAST UPDATED: February 2019 © Medem UK Ltd.