Cookie Policy
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, improve user experience, and provide information to website owners about how their site is used.
Cookies do not typically contain information that directly identifies you as an individual. However, they may store technical or personal data such as an IP address, device identifier, browser type, or usage behaviour when combined with other information.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- To ensure the website functions correctly and securely
- To enable core site features such as navigation and session handling
- To understand how visitors interact with our website
- To analyse website traffic and usage patterns
- To improve website performance and user experience
We do not use cookies for advertising, remarketing, or profiling purposes.
Types of Cookies We Use
a) Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the operation of this website. They enable core functionality such as security, accessibility, and page navigation.
Without these cookies, the website may not function correctly.
These cookies:
- Are set automatically
- Do not require your consent
- Cannot be disabled via the cookie banner
Examples include:
- Session management cookies
- Security and authentication cookies
b) Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited, how long users stay on the site, and how users navigate between pages.
We use Google Analytics (GA4) to collect this information in an aggregated and anonymised form. The data collected helps us improve the website’s structure, content, and performance.
Analytics cookies:
- Are only set after you provide consent
- Do not collect information that directly identifies you
- Are not used for advertising or marketing
If you choose not to accept analytics cookies, no analytics tracking will take place.
On some pages we also count clicks on particular buttons on our own servers, to see which features are used. This sets no cookies and, like Google Analytics, only happens if you accept.
Cookie Consent
When you first visit our website, you will be shown a cookie banner that allows you to accept or reject analytics cookies.
Your choice is stored in your browser’s local storage and respected on subsequent visits.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page, which reopens the cookie banner.
Withdrawing consent stops any further analytics tracking and deletes the Google Analytics cookies already set on your device.
Third-Party Cookies
Analytics cookies set by Google Analytics are provided by Google LLC.
Google may process usage data on our behalf in accordance with their privacy policies. We do not control how Google processes this data beyond our configuration of the service.
For more information, please refer to Google’s privacy documentation:
Other services
Some features of the website are provided by third parties. When a page uses them, your browser connects to their servers, which shares your IP address and browser details with them:
- Google reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha - protect the registration, password reset, join and contact forms from automated abuse, and may set their own cookies to do so
- Google Fonts and Font Awesome - fonts and icons; no cookies are set
- Google Maps - site maps and the site directory
- YouTube - videos on the multimedia page
Managing Cookies
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can choose to block or delete cookies at any time.
Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may impact the functionality of the website.
Guidance on managing cookies can be found in your browser’s help documentation.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal requirements, technology, or how we use cookies.
Any updates will be published on this page.
This page was last updated on 26/10/2026