Cookies & Privacy
GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a European privacy law effective from May 25, 2018. The GDPR regulates how individuals and organisations may collect, use, and retain personal data.
What is considered "personal data"?
Under the GDPR, personal data is any information about a specific person. This broad definition includes not only traditional personal data—e.g., dates of birth, names, physical addresses, email addresses—but location data, biometric data, financial information, and much more.
What information do we collect?
Anonymous analytics information is collected via cookies on our website. This includes a users date and time of visit, the IP address, the referrer, the browser version and operating system being used.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
A visit to this site may generate the following types of cookie:
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Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies
The first time you visit this site a browser cookie is generated. This lasts for 2 years unless you clear your cookies. We use the information collected by these cookies to monitor the efficacy of our website.
How to control cookies
You can control or delete cookies at any time – for details, see the Information Commissioner's Office website. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Why do we collect this information?
Analytics information is kept for up 14 months maximum and is used to assess how successful and user-friendly the site is. An individual cannot be identified from this information alone and we do not use this information in conjunction with any other information to identify an individual. This information is not exported to any other service.
Third parties
We do not directly pass any information on to third parties. This website however does use third party services which are subject to their own privacy and cookies policies. Please see below a list of these organisations with links to their privacy policies.
More information
For more information on GDPR and your individual rights please see the Information Commissioner's Office website.