This privacy notice tells you what to expect from a privacy perspective when visiting our website.
We are keen to make sure our website visitors get a positive and useful experience and to that end we wish to facilitate interaction, involvement and feedback. At the same time we wish to protect our visitors’ personal information and only use it for the purposes indicated.
Therefore:
a) We only collect individual data to fulfil our visitors’ expectation for things like participation in discussions, membership of restricted areas of the website, the distribution of information, and the purchase of products or services.
b) We collect data for analytical purposes to better understand how the site is found and used.
Use of cookies by our website
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
Cookie | Purpose | More information |
Google Analytics | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.The specific cookies used to perform this are called: _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html | ShareThis | Relates to a “share this” button displayed on many pages. Used to enable visitors to share content with social media. Cookie names are: __uset __stid |
http://sharethis.com/privacy |
ScorecardResearch | Used in conjunction with ShareThis to record market information. Cookie names are: _uid _uidr |
www.scorecardresearch.com/privacy.aspx |
Relates to a Twitter button displayed on many pages. Used to enable visitors to share content via Twitter. |
www.twitter.com/privacy | |
YouTube | Google-related tracking. | www.youtube.com Also see further notes below. |
Shopping carts and payment engines | It is necessary to use cookies in order to make shopping carts function.
In addition, when payments are performed on checkout (eg, by PayPal) the use of cookies may be a necessary function of the payment method you select. |
www.paypal.com |
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
YouTube cookies
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.