Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny pieces of information that are stored on your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they store, how we use it and why we sometimes need to use cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site functionality.

How We Use Cookies

When you submit data to a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

A detailed breakdown of typical cookies on our site will include:

Essential Cookies:

Name: PHPSESSID / SECSESSID
Expires: A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser.
Description: Identifies your unique session on the website.

Name: Cookies
Expires: 30 days.
Description: Saves your GDPR and cookies choice.

Functional Cookies:

Name: noticesseen{n}
Expires: 30 days.
Description: Saves when you last closed the notices dialog on a particular homepage allowing the website to not reshow you the same notices again. Does not exist if you do not accept the storage of cookies.

Third Party Cookies

The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Adobe or Google fonts may be used on this site. They will only be enabled if you have agreed to functional cookies or accepted them. These fonts allow the site to appear as intended. Adobe fonts are requested from a server outside the EU and therefore require your consent to send your IP to the adobe servers. No other personal information is sent and no cookies are set. If google fonts are used then google does set some cookies to track the use of their fonts.

This site may use Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

There are two other google services you may find on this site. Any forms on this site require a Google Recaptcha which allows us to filter automated bot submissions from real human trafic. Maps on this site are embedded Google Maps. Both these services require the setting of cookies to function and track their use.

Occasionally videos from Youtube may be embedded within the site. Youtube uses cookies to track the use of their video content.

Any content that is embedded within an iframe will also be blocked by default unless cookies are accepted as we cannot predict whether or not this content requires cookies.

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

More Information

For more information please contact us.