Cookies

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A cookie is just a line of text and numbers that is created by our website and stored on your computer when you visit our site. The cookie does not collect or contain personal information about you and poses no security or virus risk to your computer.

When you return to our site, the cookie associates your computer with the information that you gave us when you first visited or registered. It helps us evaluate how often visitors return to the site.

Of course, you can still make full use of the site if you specifically choose to delete or not to accept the cookie on your browser.

Essential and Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features. We don't have to ask for your explicit consent to use these cookies as these are necessary to run the website.

The session cookies set on this site have the following names and they expire when you close your browser:

.ASPXANONYMOUS
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Site performance cookies

Information supplied by cookies helps us to understand how our visitors use our website so that we can improve how we present our content to you. These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website.For example, we use Google Analytics cookies to collect anonymous information on all site visitors. We use the information to help us improve the site.All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the website works.

The Google cookies on this site have the following names:

_utma This cookie remains for 2 years on your device
_utmb This cookie remains for 30 minutes on your device
_utmc This cookie expires when you close your browser
_utmz This cookie expires remains for 6 months on your device

Functionality cookies

These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience. These cookies can be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise.

Anonymous analytics cookies

Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.

Advertising cookies

These cookies allow us to know whether or not you've seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you've seen it. These cookies are anonymous - they store information about the content you are browsing, but not about who you are.

Third party cookies

To publicise our programmes, we sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as flickr, YouTube and supporting organisations’ websites. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites.

How do I turn cookies off?

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful; otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari