Cookies and similar technologies are very small text documents or pieces of code, which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, the website sends information to your computer or mobile device and creates a text file that is then stored on your computer or mobile device and used to access information. Information gathered through cookies and similar technologies may include the date and time of visits and how you are using the particular website or mobile application.

We use first-party and third-party cookies on our Site and in our emails. First-party cookies are cookies placed by us to collect information about you. However, certain cookies are placed by third-party website operators. This means that the information about you collected by those third-party cookies will be shared with the relevant third party. Please refer to the relevant third party’s privacy notice for more information about how they may use such information.

Our Site may also link to other websites not operated by us. Where you follow links from our Site to another website, that website may place different cookies on your device. You should check the relevant privacy notice and/or cookie notice for more information about how that third party uses cookies.

Some applications that you use to access our Site, such as your web browser, may also place cookies on your device. An example of this would be where you sign in to Google Chrome using a Google Account (see the section “What about Google Chrome Cookies?” below). We have no control over these third-party cookies, so you will need to manage these cookies in the settings of the relevant applications.

For more details on cookies and similar technologies, please visit All About Cookies. For the purposes of the remaining sections of this Cookie Policy, we will refer to all technologies using the above features as “cookies”.

All cookies have expiration dates that determine how long they stay in your browser:

Session Cookies – These are temporary cookies that are placed on your device during your browsing session and then automatically erased when you close your browser.

Persistent Cookies – These cookies are designed to last for a pre-defined period of time, which varies depending on the nature of the cookie. Persistent cookies stay in your browser until they reach their individual expiry date or you manually delete them.

We use the following types of cookies on our Site:

Essential Cookies – Essential cookies are those cookies which are essential for the operation of a website. Essential cookies include cookies such as login cookies and shopping cart cookies.

Functionality Cookies – These cookies recognise you when you return to a website, they remember your preferences and they provide enhanced, more personalised features.

Analytics/Performance Cookies – Analytics cookies, along with other information, allow websites to calculate the aggregate number of people using a website and which features of a website are most popular. This information is generally used to improve the website.

To find out which individual cookies we use on our Site, and the purposes for which they are used, please visit our Cookie Preference Centre, which also allows you to manage your cookie consent preferences whenever you wish.

Essential Cookies – We do not need your consent to store and access essential cookies on your device, although you can still block or delete them (see below).

Other (“non-essential”) Cookies – We may only store and access non-essential cookies on your device with your permission. You are not obliged to give consent to our use of non-essential cookies. If you do give your consent and then change your mind, you can still delete any cookies that have already been placed (see below).

There are various ways that you can manage your cookie preferences but in order to use some parts of our Site you will need to allow certain essential or functional cookies. If you block or subsequently delete those cookies, some aspects of our Site may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our Site.

Your options for managing your cookie preferences are set out below:

Through the Cookie Preference Centre on our Site

When you access our Site, we will ask you to provide consent for our use of non-essential cookies. We may repeat this request on subsequent visits to our Site, for example if you delete cookies from your browser or we need to request new consents from you.

When we seek your consent, you will be able to provide consent for all non-essential cookies that we would like to use, or you can use our Cookie Preference Centre to tailor your cookie preferences (provide consent for some but not all non-essential cookies). You can also use our Cookie Preference Centre to change your preferences and/or withdraw your consent at any time.

Where cookies are essential to the operation of our Site, we can use these without your consent and these cookies cannot be managed using our Cookie Preference Centre.

Using your browser settings or other tools

You can block the use of cookies on our Site by activating the relevant settings in your browser. For more information on cookie management and blocking or deleting cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies.

Some cookies are dropped by third parties who operate the browser or application through which you access the Site (see the section “What about Google Chrome Cookies?” below). We do not have control of this and you will need to manage those cookie settings through the relevant third-party application.

If you do not want to be tracked by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on (but this will only work on certain browsers). For further information on Google Analytics and its use of cookies, please consult the Google Analytics cookie policy.

When you access the Site via Google applications such as Google Chrome, Google may collect user information for the purpose of Google serving personalised advertising across your devices. Google is able place these advertising cookies on the devices used by visitors to the Site because we use Google services to run the Site.

However these cookies are dropped for Google’s own purposes and as such we do not have any control over how or when they are dropped. You will need to opt out of receiving these cookies via your Google settings. For further information about these cookies please see https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en-US. Please note that other browsers may use similar tools.

Emails you receive from us may contain cookies or similar technologies. Cookies in our emails do a similar job to cookies on our Site. These technologies tell us if you open an email and help us understand how you interact with its content. Once you click on an email that contains a cookie, your contact information may subsequently be cross-referenced to the source email and/or the relevant cookie. If you have enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or mobile device. Cookies will also be set if you click on any link within the email. If you open one of our emails, triggering a cookie, you can prevent further use of cookies in that email by closing it without downloading any of the content or clicking on any of the links.