Our core beliefs regarding user privacy and data protection

• User privacy and data protection are essential and we take them seriously
• Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
• We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information

This website collects personal information for the following reasons:

Site visitation tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you, but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor

• Google (Privacy policy)

Email newsletter

We currently do not have a subscribe to news function within our website.

Cookies

A cookie is a tiny data file, which is stored on your computer within the web browser, when certain web pages are visited. A cookie does not contain or collect information in isolation, but when read by a server via a web browser; it can give information to facilitate a more user friendly service such as detecting errors. A cookie will not harm your computer and no personally identifiable information is stored from the use of this site.

We use cookies in the following ways:

• Session cookies, are part of the functionality of the website and are automatically deleted after every visit.
• Persistent cookies that will remain in place during multiple visits to the site. These enable us to recognise anonymous repeat visitors to the site. By monitoring this information we’re able to make improvements to the site, including the fixing of errors and the enhancement of content.
• Third party cookies, which are used by partner websites that are embedded within our site or that we link to. If you go on to a web page that contains embedded content, for example from Facebook or YouTube, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We do not control the generation of these cookies, so we suggest that you check the individual third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

To remove or prevent cookies being placed on your computer you can manage your cookie settings in your website browser.