Privacy and Cookies

Privacy

If you provide us with information through a contact form or email address we will only use this information for the purposes intended. You will not receive any subsequent unsolicited communication.  For full details please see our Privacy Notice.

Cookies

To help keep this site running smoothly, small data files are placed on your computer. These are known as cookies. Most big websites do this too.

They improve things by:

• remembering settings, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page
• remembering information you’ve given (eg your postcode) so you don’t need to keep entering it
• measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs

Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. Indeed, you can manage and/or delete these small files as you wish.

To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit AboutCookies.org.

Implied consent: we decided to use the implied consent approach to meeting EU and UK regulations on cookie use. While this approach is not ideal, it was the best solution we could find given practical problems for this site with other approaches. We will, though, continue to review available options.

First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site. Website analytic providers such as Google Analytics set cookies to help accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage.

Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which may be used to enhance a website, for example YouTube and Google Maps have their own cookies, which are controlled by them. This website does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these. To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.

Below is a list of cookies used on this site.

First Party Cookies

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (eg, your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

__utma: this Cookie is used to identify unique visitors to our sites. The results are sent to our Google Analytics account so that we may see how many unique visitors come to this site based over a period of time.

__utmb: this cookie is used by Google Analytics to determine the visitor session times on our sites. Each time you visit a new page on the site the cookie is set to expire within 30 minutes, if it does not find an existing cookie, a new one is created.

__utmc: this cookie is used by Google Analytics in conjunction with __utmb to determine visitor sessions. Unlike __utmb this cookie does not have an expiry date, it determines whether a new session should be created based on whether you have previously closed your browser, re-opened it and come back to the site.

__utmz: this cookie is used by Google Analytics to determine the type of referral used by each visitor to arrive at our site. The cookie determines if the user has come directly to the site or via a search engine, email or email campaign. We use this data to understand how our users arrive at the website.

Third Party Cookies

YouTube

Embeded YouTube videos on this site use cookies, where possible these videos use YouTube’s “privacy enhanced mode” so cookies will only be used if you play the video and YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information. Video accessed via Google Maps does not use privacy enhanced mode.

YouTube creates at least three cookies: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, use_hitbox and PREF.

Google Maps

Google Maps stores up to four cookies: khcookie, NID, SNID and PREF. Google adheres to its privacy policy which can be found at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/ and its terms of service for Google Maps at http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/help/terms_maps.html.

 

Social Sharing Plugins

Facebook Like, Share official buttons

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Twitter Tweet

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

Google Plus

We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Linkedin Share

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Tumblr

We use a Tumblr widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/en_eu