Cookies

Cookies explained 

‍ A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website and these help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions. 

‍ For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website and which pages you go to. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually. 

‍You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the websites below tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, some of our website features may not function as a result. 

‍ Our use of cookies 

‍ We use cookies on this website to: 

• recognise when you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time). 
• obtain information about your use of our website. 
• carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our users’ requirements. 
• make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable. 

‍ For further information on cookies generally visit https://allaboutcookies.org/ 

Types of cookies 

‍ • Session cookies 

These allow our website to link your actions during a particular browser session. These expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards. 

• Persistent cookies 

These are stored on your device in between browser sessions and allow your preferences or actions across our website to be remembered. These will remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your cache. 

Additionally, the cookies that we place on your device may also be: 

• Strictly necessary cookies 

These are essential for you to be able to navigate our website and use its features. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for could not be provided. 

• Performance cookies 

These collect information about how you use our website, e.g. which pages you go to most often. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information about you. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous, and is only used to improve how our website works. 

• Functionality cookies 

These allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your username, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. 

• Targeting cookies (third party cookies and cookies used for advertising) 

Targeting cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on our website and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. These may also be used to choose the advertisements which are displayed to you on our website and other websites. 

‍The Cookies We Set  

• Email newsletters related cookies -This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.  
• Surveys related cookies – From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.  
• Forms related cookies – When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages, membership or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.  
• Site preferences cookies – In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.  

Third-Party Cookies  

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. Details of which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site are: 

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. 

• Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you. This includes our sister site Go-ViP. 

• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; X/Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. 

Cookie settings 

‍If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website and you will not receive a personalised service. 

If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Clear, allow and manage cookies in https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop 

‍ For further information about cookies and how to disable them please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office website. 

‍ For queries please email: [email protected]